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Board Chair Jamie Koch talks with Vice Chair Don Chalmers during a break in a Lobo Development Corporation Meeting on Monday. The board met to discuss funding options for various construction projects throughout campus.
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Krebs: Another million needed for construction
At a Lobo Development Corporation meeting Monday, board members unveiled plans that detailed future dormitories and Athletics facilities construction at UNM.
Paul Krebs, vice president of Athletics, said Athletics needs new tennis courts, a renovation of UNM’s baseball field and improvements to the existing parking lots.
Krebs said the baseball field renovation carries a price tag of $4 million. So far $2 million has been provided by the state, and $1 million has come from donations, Krebs said.
“We are actively trying to raise another million dollars for the renovation,” he said.
To help fund parking lot
renovations, Krebs said the Athletics Department has charged for parking in lots close to the Isotopes stadium during games and shared profits with the Isotopes.
“Part of the reason we’ve charged for parking is to help us pay for some of the improvements to parking lots,” he said.
Krebs said he hopes to finish work on the indoor practice facilities, which are only usable when wind speeds are under 50 mph.
“Part of our master plan calls for the potential development of a soccer-only facility where our tennis complex is,” Krebs said. “That’s probably not something that’s likely to happen in my lifetime.”
In addition to the Athletics Department’s plans to build, Kim Murphy, the director of UNM Real Estate, discussed plans for additional student housing in the UNM area.
Murphy said his department is organizing weekly open meetings with students and the surrounding neighborhood to decide the location for new student housing, but times and locations for the meeting are still being worked out. He said a site will be chosen mid-October and then be presented to the Board of Regents. The proposed housing complex will have 500 to 1,000 beds.
“We have eight sections planned, which will result in the selection of sites for new housing on main campus,” Murphy said.
He said adding student housing to south campus will make the area more appealing to the 1.6 million people who attend athletic events per year.
“Rather than having exclusively a Science and Technology Park and athletic facilities, (we want) to
introduce other activities, other uses that will complement those two major anchors and round out the use of the south campus and make it more of a destination,” Murphy said.
Murphy also presented draft plans that he said would double the health sciences facilities on North Campus within 20 years. The plans have not been approved by the Board of Regents.
Don Chalmers, who was re-elected as vice chair of the LDC, said plans are one thing, but turning them into reality is another.
“One of our challenges is developing an appropriate revenue source moving forward,” he said. “We are in need of seed money to continue to move these commercial developments forward.”
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BC
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not that these are not “worthy” projects, but UNM is facing serious budget cuts and in light of those cuts UNM should focus on academics rather than athletics. It would not be appropriate to fund these developments while cutting mainstream projects. Best of all would be to get the state to return funding to UNM so that New Mexico students can get a quality education.
Lobo Joe
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Mr. Krebs, get real. Virtually no one believes anything originating from your mouth and this drivel merely confirms your lack of intellect and concern about the status of UNM.
Frankly, I’d worry more about paying for all the pending litigation against some of your staff and possibly yourself( Or will insurance cover this fiasco). Can you find a way to get alumni to pay for the coming legal fees your inept athletics management has wreaked upon UNM?
Lawrence
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Four million dollars for the baseball field? And you’re still $1 million short?
Forget it, Krebs — you’ve sucked enough money away from the students, teachers and researchers of this university.
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(See Lobo Joe? I agree with you).
Lobo Joe
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Lawrence-
Thanks, but this is a no brainer, it’s intuitively obvious Mr. Krebs’s talents lie not in athletics management but possibly selling hot dogs and year books in the stands to UNM fans.
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Mr. Krebs doesn’t need a Harvard MBA, nor a UNM MBA to realize this calamity of charging for parking at football games is folly. Had he( Mr. Krebs) realized he could probably get more fans rooting for a 1-12 team by lowering costs so it would be a bit more affordable for many people, he’d not look so inept, perhaps. This is nothing new, supermarkets call it a loss leader- a way to enhance sales by selling a product at or slightly below cost. But, Mr. Krebs obviously lacks the mundane marketing skills that any supermarket manager possesses.However, he did succeed in fooling Mr. Koch , Mr. Schmidly and a host of other greedy,inept( I’d use another term, but I’d be on dangerous turf( it rhymes with abrupt, I think) administrators. BTW, does anyone know if his wife has tenure @ the College of Education?
Disappointed Republican
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Regent Chalmers claims to be a conservative business man yet as vice chair of Lobo Development Corporation he has no problem using $2M in state dollars to renovate a baseball stadium. He doesn’t bat at eye that people who don’t use and have no desire to ever use UNM Athletics facilities are forced to pay taxes so he and his buddy Regent Koch can play pro-team owners.
On Aug. 10 the Legislative Finance Committee released a report that said NMSU’s student fees would increase by 105% to try to put a dent in their $9 Million Athletics debt. This year the UNM Regents ignored the students recommendations to cut UNM student fees for Athletics and instead approved a hike of nearly $300,000 to the already more than $1.5 Million they are forced to pay.
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Haven’t we had enough bailouts? It’s time to cut the subsidies and instead focus our resources on something that will actually produce a profit in return.
Privatize Athletics
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The regents want to privatize housing because they say a private company can do it better. I think we should see if a private company can run an athletic program more efficiently.
Chalmers and Koch, put YOUR money where your mouth is. Do not put my money where your mouth is. I would rather watch a mediocre team with heart and financed with private dollars.
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UNM Athletics is not big business. It is big bloated bureaucracy with washed up limp boys sitting on the board.
Lawrence
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Sometimes I complain when others grind an axe, but on this issue today, that’s me. I have something more to say about this.
Krebs, you got a lot of frickin’ nerve to hold out your hat like this.
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You got a lot of god-damned nerve to ask for a $1 million to fix a baseball field in these economic times. At a time when some faculty are giving up phones to help with budget cuts. When tuition keeps going up every year.
The gall to ask for funding for such an ephemeral, non-academic project before a looming budget crisis next year, when according to Schmidly’s own Monday Morning Message we should expect “SEVERE CUTS.”
Go ahead and say I’m a baseball hater. I like baseball, and I still will the shirt of my hometown D-Backs even though they are in last place. But unlike you, I understand that the primary missions of this institution are education and research, not entertainment. Everybody else is being asked to tighten their belts, you can too, for once.
Eugene
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Say, I got an idea:
Murphy mentioned the “…1.6 million people who attend athletic events per year.”
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Assuming this figure is accurate, why not just charge each of them an extra dollar at the point of sale? After all, if they are athletic supporters, they should be able to cough up a lousy buck for the ball field. problem solved.
newlobointown
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As a relatively new university employee I think everyone is jumping to conclusions, which may, or may not be accurate. Each state provides a pool of money in what is called C&R (Construction & Renovation) and universities fight for a slice of that pool of money. The funds can only be used for C&R. I am assuming that based on what I have read that the $2 million was C&R funds, which can not be used for any other purpose. So those that scream that those funds should be used for academic reasons just don’t know enough about the university budgeting process. I am also assuming that Mr. Krebs fund-raised another $1 million. Hey, great. I donate to my alma mater and I only give to my chosen favorites, the library and athletics. If I had a million I might give to exactly what I would want. So if Mr. Krebs could convince someone to part with a cool mil, I think we should say congratulations. I’m sure this individual donor did not want to give to anything else. And that is their perogative. I am strictly pro-academic’s and everyone has a good point that critical decisions on how a university budget is spent should be seriously discussed. But the constant snipping about athletics is a little overboard.
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