The Joint Committee on Intergovernmental and Legislative Relations shall have the express authority to do the following:
(A) Promote cooperation and encourage coordination between the City, the Federal, and State and local governments;
(B) Attend such meetings of other governmental entities as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this article;
(C) Prepare by September 1st of each calendar year, for approval by the Intergovernmental Relations Committee’s, and adoption at the Council meeting following the Committee approval, a State legislative program resolution that includes the Mayor’s, the City Council’s and City Councilors’ City-Wide policy, program, and capital projects priorities. The priorities shall be submitted as separate attachments to the resolution and adopted by unanimous vote of the City Council. Resolutions, other than the annual City-Wide State Priority Resolution introduced to the City Council that include a City-Wide request to the State Legislature or the State Government shall also be adopted unanimously;
(D) Prepare by September 1st of each calendar year, for approval by the Intergovernmental Relations Committee, and adoption at the Council meeting following the Committee approval, a State legislative program resolution that includes the Mayor’s, the City Council’s and City Councilors’ Individual, program, project, and capital outlay project priorities. Such requests shall be submitted as separate attachments to the resolution and adopted by majority vote of the City Council;
(E) The resolutions adopted pursuant to paragraphs (C) and (D) of this section and additional requests shall be submitted to the Governor’s Office and members of the Legislature whose district include the City of Albuquerque;
(F) The Mayor-Administration, Council, and/or individual Councilors may submit to the Legislature and the State Government policy, program, project, and capital outlay project priorities independent of the annual State priorities resolutions;
(G) Represent the City and coordinate its legislative efforts at any general or special session of the legislature of the State;
(H) Prepare by November 1st of each calendar year for approval by the Intergovernmental Relations Committee, and adoption by the Council at the Council meeting following the committee’s approval, a Federal program resolution for the City of Albuquerque’s requests for City-Wide policy, program, and grant priorities, and congressional appropriation requests to the Federal government The priorities shall be submitted as separate attachments to the resolution and adopted by unanimous vote of the City Council. Resolutions, other than the annual City-Wide State Priority Resolution introduced to the City Council that include a City-Wide request to the Congressional Delegation or the Federal Government shall also be adopted unanimously;
(I) Prepare by November 1st of each calendar year for approval by the Intergovernmental Relations Committee, and adoption by the Council at the Council meeting following the committee’s approval, a Federal program resolution for the City of Albuquerque’s requests for Council, Councilor and Mayor-Administration policy, program, and grant priorities, and congressional appropriation requests to the Federal government. The requests shall be submitted on a separate attachment to the resolution and adopted by majority vote of the Council;
(J) The resolutions adopted pursuant to paragraphs (J) and (I) of this section and additional requests shall be submitted to the members of the New Mexico Congressional Delegation and agencies of the Federal government, as needed;
(K) Congressional appropriation requests filed after the adoption of the Federal priorities resolution shall be submitted through resolution by the Intergovernmental Relations Committee to the City Council for inclusion in the most current Federal policy resolution;
(L) The Mayor-Administration, the Council and/or individual Councilors may submit to the Congressional Delegation and the Federal government policy, program, grant priorities, and congressional appropriations requests independent of the annual Federal priorities resolutions;
(M) Adopt and promulgate rules, regulations and orders necessary to implement any authority delegated to the committee by this article;
(N) Represent the City and coordinate its Federal and State legislative programs in Washington, D.C. and at the State Capitol and with state agencies;
(O) Work with the New Mexico Municipal League to coordinate the activities of the City with the programs and activities of other municipalities throughout the state including reviewing and approving the City of Albuquerque’s annual membership to the league and any initiatives proposed between the City of Albuquerque and the Municipal League; and
(P) Engage and manage the services of representatives at the State and Federal level to assist the committee in carrying out its responsibilities provided in this article including reviewing and submitting for approval to the City Council proposed contracts and legal obligations between the City of Albuquerque and such representatives.
(Ord. 2024-029)