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FACE OF BUSINESS Jo Edna Boldin gets to make stars of NM citizens 11

NEW TO TOWN Charter Bank’s new CEO likes to fi sh and

turned cooking his catch into a hobby 3

SMALLER IS BETTER At least it appears that way,

according to a Think New Mexico report on schools 4

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Law Firms 15

INSIDESBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

FOB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

MOVERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

BIZ LEADS . . . . . . . . . . . 18

VIEWPOINT . . . . . . . . . 23

PNM’s rate hike opponents gatherBY KEVIN ROBINSON-AVILA | NMBW SENIOR REPORTER

Steve Paternoster, owner of Scalo’s Northern Italian Grill and Brasserie La Provence, said Pub-lic Service Co. of New Mexico’s request for a 10.8

percent rate hike will cut into his bottom line if it’s approved.

Paternoster said he already pays nearly $7,000 per month for electricity.

“I’m just a little guy,” Paternos-ter said. “I have a restaurant that does well. But a nickel here and a nickel there can chip out the bot-tom line pretty quick.”

Paternoster co-chairs the Commercial Energy User Coalition, which opposes PNM’s rate hike. The coalition includes four statewide associa-tions representing New Mexico restaurants, retail stores, grocers and petroleum marketers.

It formed last summer to oppose PNM’s rate case, which the utility fi led with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission in June.

PNM requested a 21 percent rate hike in its June fi ling. But on Feb. 3, it fi led a new agreement, or stipulation, that cuts the requested increase to

10.8 percent. That agreement is supported by six parties, including the Attorney General’s Offi ce, the PRC’s utility division staff, the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority and

PNM fi ghts one-two punch at San JuanBY KEVIN ROBINSON-AVILA | NMBW SENIOR REPORTER

The Public Service Co. of New Mexico is in a battle for the life of its coal-fi red San Juan Generating Station.

The utility is fi ght-ing proposed U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency restrictions on nitrogen oxide at the 30-year-old plant, plus state regulations on greenhouse gas emis-sions. That’s a one-two punch the plant might

not survive, said PNM spokesman Don Brown.

Even if San Juan remains standing, a lot more EPA regulations are coming that could deal a defi nitive knock out.

Table I – PNM rate increase in revenue and percent change

(In millions of dollars)

PNM North 1/

PNM South 2/ Revenue

Percent change

Current revenue 724.2 61.1 785.3

• 5.7 % base-rate hike, May 15, 2011 765.7 64.6 830.3

• 5.1 % base-rate hike, Jan. 1, 2012 802.6 67.7 870.3 10.8

• $20 million rate rider, Jan. 1, 2013 n/a n/a 890.3 13.37

1/ About 450,000 residential and commercial customers.2/ About 51,000 residential and commercial customers in Alamogor-do, Ruidoso, Tularosa, Lordsburg, Silver City and Bayard.Source: NMBW, based on data from PNM

i9 Sports seeking franchisees to bring fun back to NM youth

BY MEGAN KAMERICK | NMBW SENIOR REPORTER

A Florida company that is tapping into the exaspera-tion of parents and chil-dren with traditional sports leagues is planning to expand into New Mexico.

i9 Sports is looking for fran-chisees for its youth sports

concept in the Land of Enchant-ment. The company’s potential clientele includes soccer moms

weary of schlepping their kids hundreds of miles to practices and games, and kids who have given up on sports because of hyper-competitive atmospheres and ranting coaches.

“Programs put on by commu-nities are often not well-orga-nized or managed, because they don’t have a whole lot of bud-get,” said Brian Sanders, chief operating offi cer for i9 Sports. “We pride ourselves on having a highly organized program so parents know where they need to be and when.”

The company, based in Bran-don, Fla., was started in 2003 by Frank Fiume, who wanted to

make sports fun for kids, regard-less of their skill level. i9 Sports has 130 franchise locations na-tionwide and 400,000 children playing in its leagues.

“Youth sports programs have gotten to be so competitive that it’s driving the non-star athletes out,” Sanders said. “Kids are dropping out in droves because it’s just not fun anymore.”

The company also seeks to prevent parents from scream-ing at coaches or kids by asking them to sign a pledge to promote positive sideline behavior.

Grant Gunkel, a franchisee in the Chandler and Gilbert, Ariz.,

COURTESY i9 SPORTS

i9 Sports has 130 franchises nation-wide, with 400,000 students participat-ing in its sports leagues.

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SEE SPORTS 22

Paternoster

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People

Batey, Dennis ......................................................... 5

Beffort, Sue Wilson .............................................. 4

Bernanke, Ben ....................................................... 7

Boldin, Jo Edna ...................................................11

Borror, Tim ............................................................23

Bridges, Jeff .........................................................11

Brown, Don ............................................................. 1

Berman, Lester ....................................................11

Bush, George W. ................................................... 8

Cameron, James ................................................23

Campbell, Lewis .................................................... 1

Carson, Karen ........................................................ 5

Coleman, Dorothy ................................................. 7

Cunningham, Courtney .....................................11

Cunningham, Lora ..............................................11

Damon, Matt ........................................................11

Darnell, Ron ............................................................ 1

Dowling, Ralph ....................................................... 3

Eckerly, Susan ....................................................... 7

Fiume, Frank .......................................................... 1

Gessing, Paul ......................................................... 4

Glenn, Jimmie ....................................................... 1

Gould, Peter ............................................................ 1

Gunkel, Grant ......................................................... 1

Hirshenson, Janet ...............................................11

Holguin, Mara ......................................................... 3

Holland, Shawn ..................................................... 1

Hoover, Kent .......................................................7, 8

Keene, Terry ............................................................ 1

Kirk, Ron .................................................................. 8

Lopez, Barbara .....................................................10

Lyons, Patrick ......................................................... 1

Marks, Jason ......................................................... 1

Martinez, Susana ................................................11

McConaughey, Matthew ...................................11

Michel, Steve .......................................................... 1

Montoya, Jo Jo ...................................................10

Montoya-Boyer, Diana ......................................... 4

Mora, Vicki .............................................................. 3

Nathan, Fred ........................................................... 4

Nava, Cynthia ......................................................... 4

Obama, Barack ..................................................7, 8

Pablo, Jeanette...................................................... 1

Parks, Willow Misty ...........................................13

Paternoster, Steve ................................................ 1

Pluth, Becky .........................................................23

Puma, Bruce ........................................................13

Ray, Rachael .......................................................... 3

Rogers, Marjorie A. ............................................13

Rudd, Merri ...........................................................13

Sacco, Stacy ........................................................23

Sanders, Brian ....................................................... 1

Sandherr, Stephen................................................ 7

Skandera, Hanna .................................................. 4

Smith, John Arthur .............................................. 4

Steinfeld, Hailee ..................................................11

Stretch, Clint ........................................................... 7

Simonson, Ken ...................................................... 3

Sinclair, Maxwell ................................................... 3

Tomlin, Lily ............................................................11

Van Winkle, David ................................................ 1

Winter, Nann .......................................................... 1

Zellweger, Renee ................................................11

Zerbe, Dean ............................................................ 7

Companies

505 Studio Works LLC .....................................11

Alaska Native Corporations ............................... 8

Albuquerque Public Schools ............................. 4

Ally Financial .......................................................... 8

American Advertising Federation-NM ............ 3

American Express ................................................ 8

Artichoke Cafe ....................................................... 1

Artistry of Life Salon .........................................10

Assoc. General Contractors of America ..3, 7

Associated General Contractors of NM ........ 3

BB&T ......................................................................... 8

BCA Medical Associates .................................... 5

Beal Financial Corp. ............................................. 3

Bonita’s Mixes ....................................................... 3

Brasserie La Provence ........................................ 1

Capital One ............................................................. 8

Casting Society of America ............................11

Charter Bank .......................................................... 3

CNN ........................................................................... 1

Cocopotamus ......................................................... 3

Commercial Energy User Coalition ................. 1

Construction Financial Mgt. Association ....... 3

Deloitte Tax LLP .................................................... 7

ENLACE .................................................................... 4

ESPN2 ...................................................................... 1

Farina Pizzeria ....................................................... 1

Food Network ........................................................ 3

Forever Young ......................................................10

FOX ............................................................................ 1

Fulton Financial ..................................................... 8

Goodman School of Drama ............................11

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino ................................ 3

i9 Sports .................................................................. 1

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center .......................... 3

Lifetime Network................................................... 3

Modrall Sperling ................................................13

Mood Full Service Salon ..................................10

National Association of Manufacturers ......... 7

National Education Association-NM ............... 4

Nat’l Federation of Independent Business ... 7

New Mexico Activities Association ................. 4

New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers .. 1

New Mexico Retail Association ....................... 1

New Mexico Women in Film ..........................11

NM Conference of Catholic Bishops .............. 4

Presbyterian Health Plan.................................... 5

Public Service Co. of New Mexico ................. 1

Rio Grande Foundation ....................................... 4

Scalo’s Northern Italian Grill ............................. 1

Sierra Club .............................................................. 1

Small Business Administration ........................ 8

Stelzner Winter Warburton ................................ 1

Swaim & Finlayson ..........................................13

The Casting Co. ...................................................11

Think New Mexico................................................ 4

Town Center Bank ................................................ 3

Venus and Mars ................................................10

University of Houston .......................................... 3

University of New Mexico ................................23

UtiliTech Inc. ........................................................... 1

WESST .........................................................10, 23

Western Resource Advocates .......................... 1

Wintrust Financial ............................................... 8

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Another New Mexico business, Co-copotamus, is going to the Oscars. This column recently mentioned that Albuquerque’s Bonita’s Mixes, sugar-free syrups such as a margarita mix, were selected to be in celebrity gift bags at events such as the Gram-mys and the Academy Awards. Dark chocolate fudge truffl es made by Co-copotamus, an artisanal chocolatier in Albuquerque, also have been picked for the coveted “swag bag” for the 83rd Academy Awards celebration (Feb. 27). Cocopotamus CEO Maxwell Sin-clair says the candy company will be taking the truffl es “live to the celebri-ties for a charity event at The W Ho-tel in Los Angeles” during a two-day event prior to the Oscars’ ceremony. The fi rm’s truffl es also have been fea-tured on cable’s Lifetime Network and in Food Network Rachael Ray’s holi-day gift guide, among others.

The pottery room at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has a wall fi lled with spectacular pots from the 19 pueblos around the state. On Feb. 15, the room was fi lled with construc-tion execs who, initially, were more in-terested in buildings and mechanical systems, but a pot drew some of the biggest raves following a speech by the Associated General Contractors of America’s Chief Economist Ken Simonson. After his presentation about the state of New Mexico’s con-struction industry, Simonson was pre-sented with a gift by AGC-New Mexi-co’s Mara Holguin, director of public affairs. When he opened it, his eyes brightened and he smiled broadly, as if the industry was back to full employ-ment and new projects were sprout-ing up. The box contained a black and white seed pot from Acoma Pueblo. “This is one of my favorite gifts. I re-ally love these pots,” Simonson told his hosts, who included AGC’s New Mexico Building Branch and the Construction Financial Manage-ment Association. Many hope that the pot is a harbinger of good things, perhaps the seeds of a New Mexico construction recovery in the works.

S C E N E H E A R DSimonson sees sluggish recoveryBY STEVE GINSBERG | SPECIAL TO NMBW

As if things haven’t been hard enough

for New Mexico’s contractors, they are likely in for a more sluggish recovery than their national brethren, according to Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associ-ated General Contractors of America.

Washington. D.C.-based Simonson’s two day visit to Albuquerque included a well-attended presentation at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center on Feb. 15 where he laid out the business prospects for contrac-tors nationally and locally. The Land of Enchantment’s state budget woes will put a crimp in the recovery in 2011, he noted.

“There is a big budget hole to fi ll in New Mexico, and the state will restore services fi rst before they allocate funding for con-struction. Heavy construction is, at best, their fourth biggest priority,” Simonson told his audience. “New Mexico depends heavily on oil and gas revenues, and this has been a negative. The benefi ts of the fed-eral stimulus the past two years will also go away.”

Simonson is well respected in the indus-try for his research and his approach to telling it straight, and that’s what he did in his public talk and in a wide ranging inter-view with the Business Weekly.

In that interview, Simonson said the free fall of construction job losses has ended in New Mexico, but the prospects for a full re-covery are not good. Any hope for a recov-ery is partially riding on President Barack Obama’s new federal budget. Increased spending in the areas of defense and en-ergy would have to trickle down to New Mexico.

“The budget debate looms extremely large in New Mexico and it will be a tense few weeks. Natural gas prices helped New Mexico stay afl oat longer, coupled with hefty spending on the Spaceport, Intel work and the Rail Runner. Now, with the fl attening of federal spending, it could deepen our [New Mexico] recovery and it could be more sluggish.”

This year could actually be more stressful than 2010, according AGC’s New Mexico President Vicki Mora, who told the Busi-ness Weekly that New Mexico’s current budget woes will most likely put a crimp into the education projects that have kept many contractors busy the past two years.

NEW TO townRalph Dowling President, Charter Bank, Albuquerque

BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI | NMBW STAFF

Ralph Dowling’s wife, Patti, got him into his hobby of cooking.

“Fishing and cooking are my favorite hob-bies,” says Dowling, who, in November, was named president of Charter Bank in Albu-querque. “I took up cooking because I would bring the fi sh home and Patti would say, ‘I’m not cooking that.’ So I started cooking, and now I enter gumbo contests. I will be cook-ing gumbo on Fat Tuesday [Mardi Gras].”

A Texas native, Dowling has been in the banking business since 1975, when he grad-uated from the University of Houston with a degree in accounting and fi nance. He later earned an MBA, and has spent most of his career running community banks in Texas and elsewhere. He came to Charter, which is owned by Beal Financial Corp. of Plano, Texas, from a consulting job for a bank in Scottsdale, Ariz. Prior to that he was the CEO of Town Center Bank in Coppell, Texas.

What are your plans for Charter?I want to rebuild Charter, and particular-

ly in the community-oriented framework that the Wertheims started. They built a model for what community banks should do. That’s at the top of my list.

Had you worked for Beal before?No. I have been acting lately as a sort of

white knight for banks that need strategic direction and change. Beal had been talk-ing to me for several months about this position. I had commitments to another fi nancial institution, and when that con-tract ran out, we matched up schedules.

What do you want to tell the community?That we at Charter Bank are in busi-

ness. Admittedly we struggled in the fi rst year [after being bought by Beal in January 2010], but we are open for business, we are making loans and we are back in the community service business.

Your impressions of Albuquerque?I judge a city by the way people drive, and

people here drive fairly politely. They don’t honk, and they wave at you. They’re re-spectful. People here talk to strangers, and that’s not true of every city.

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Small schools bill gathers support from disparate groupsBY MEGAN KAMERICK | NMBW SENIOR REPORTER

An effort to promote smaller schools in New Mexico is picking up steam in the Leg-islature and has support from an ideologi-cally diverse group.

Senate Bill 2 would amend the Public School Capital Outlay Act to give school districts an extra 10 percent state fund-ing match from the Public School Capital Outlay Fund if they build high schools with enrollments of 400 to 900 students, or elementary and middle schools with en-rollments of 200 to 400 students. Districts also could benefi t from the incentive if they renovate large schools into smaller schools within schools.

The bill was cosponsored by Senators Sue Wilson Beffort, R-Sandia Park, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee; John Arthur Smith, D-Deming and chairman of the Senate Finance Com-mittee; and Cynthia Nava, D-Las Cruces, chair of the Senate Education Committee, which passed an amended version of the bill. It’s now in the Senate Finance Com-mittee.

Supporters include the free market policy advocate Rio Grande Foundation, the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Education Association-New Mex-ico, the New Mexico Activities Association and ENLACE (Engaging Latino Families in Education).

Think New Mexico, the nonprofi t think tank in Santa Fe, unsuccessfully pushed similar legislation in 2009. It passed the Senate, but not the House. It has changed some things in the bill, including making it an optional incentive rather than manda-tory policy to build smaller schools.

Think NM issued a report on smaller schools in 2008, citing reams of research that indicate smaller schools tend to have better outcomes and fewer disciplinary problems and are more cost-effi cient in the long run. It cites studies that found the most effi cient schools are those serving 300 to 900 students and that “diseconomies of scale” kick in above 900 students because of increased costs in bureaucracy, security and transportation (see chart).

As of 2007, more than two-thirds of New Mexico ninth graders entered high schools with populations larger than 1,000, according to Think NM. Depending

on how graduation rates are measured, the state is graduating from 55 to 66 per-cent of students, said Fred Nathan, Think NM’s executive director.

“We’re going to need jobs in New Mexico in the next decade, and two-thirds will re-quire a college degree,” Nathan said.

“So we’ll need every one of those kids to graduate from college just to meet the demand for workers with college degrees. We need to graduate a much larger percentage of kids than we do now.”

Nathan said the national research on dropouts indi-cates the primary reasons are that kids feel unsafe and they feel alienated.

The push for smaller schools got a dramatic boost after the 1999 shoot-ings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., which has an enrollment of 1,965 students, accord-ing to Think NM’s report. Many pointed to the shoot-ers’ sense of alienation as one of the key ingredients in that tragedy.

Taking out mandatory language in the current bill made it more palat-able to Albuquerque Public Schools, said Joe Escobedo, a lobbyist for APS.

“We’re already imple-menting some of the things that they’re talking about, but it’s just the whole idea of when we begin to build schools again, what is the most cost-effective way to do it,” he said. “That’s what we have some concerns about.”

APS initiated smaller freshmen academies within larger high schools in 2000, according to the Think NM report.

A 2005 evaluation of the academies found higher at-tendance and lower drop-

out rates than in standard ninth grade pro-grams, and more students advanced to the 10th grade.

Tom Graham, principal of Griegos Ele-mentary in Albuquerque, said his school’s smaller size has been a key reason why it has performed so well academically.

“The whole school is able to get to know everybody,” he said. “So teachers know the children better, the mechanics of the school work easier, such as bus pick-up, school assemblies, tutoring, detention and recess.”

The amended version of the proposed bill also added cost-saving measures, such as requiring districts to look for sites for new schools near facilities they can share, like a city-run athletic facility or a community college library.

Paul Gessing, executive director of the Rio Grande Foundation, said this is just one part of the reform that is needed to improve education, but it’s an important one.

“I think it’s time to move beyond these major institutions,” he said. “It’s kind of a big factory model that you centralize ev-erything and put it all together, and kids kind of get lost in the mix.”

They lose sight of themselves as individ-uals, Gessing added.

ENLACE, which works statewide to in-crease access and success for all students, sees this as one way to close the achieve-ment gap, said Diana Montoya-Boyer, com-munity relations manager.

“From our standpoint, it’s also a civil rights bill,” she said. “We see larger schools also happen to be the schools with higher rates of free and reduced lunch, and higher rates of minority students, so it’s as though particular communities are being pushed into what Think New Mexico calls ‘dropout factories.’”

An analysis of the bill by the Legislative Education Study Committee gave it a mixed review, noting that Hanna Skandera, sec-retary-designate of the Public Education Department, has argued that cost-effec-tiveness is possible in small schools because of higher graduation rates.

But it also cites research noting there must be an organizational culture that fos-ters academic achievement.

The Legislative Finance Committee anal-ysis raises the possibility that the public school capital outlay fund will be dimin-ished more quickly under the legislation. But Nathan said the LFC analysis does not take the cost-saving aspects of the amend-ed bill into account, such as the shift from a 25 percent incentive to 10 percent.


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Grant from Presbyterian Health Plan helps Roswell physicians go electronicBY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI | NMBW STAFF

Dr. Karen Carson and the seven other pediatric doctors at BCA Medical Associ-ates in Roswell now know quickly when the children they treat go to an emergency room, and how many of their patients need certain shots and medications. They can use that infor-mation to help patients avoid costly emergency room visits.

BCA, which cares for 80 percent of the children on Medicaid in the Roswell area, can track these things because it has developed an electronic medical records program (EMR) with the help of a $70,000 grant from the Albuquerque-based Presby-terian Health Plan.

“We’re now able to track what we call ‘frequent fl yers,’ those who overuse emer-gency rooms,” Carson says. “We can bring them in for visits, make sure they get their checkups on time and decrease the usage of emergency rooms.”

The grant to BCA is one of fi ve that Presbyterian has made to medical groups in the past year. The grants for EMRs and for medical practices to become “medical homes” for their patients were mandated by the state Legislature in 2009 for the state’s Medicaid insurers, including Pres-byterian.

Medical homes are practices that oversee all of a patient’s medical needs. They’re much like old-fashioned family doctors, but they use EMRs to ensure that patients get timely checkups and care.

“The idea is that each patient and the pa-tient’s family have a personal relationship with their physician,” says Dr. Dennis Bat-ey, president of Presbyterian Health Plan. “Their care is coordinated and integrated. It’s not just, ‘It’s Wednesday, you’re in my

offi ce, I’ll see you now and that’s it.’”Batey says electronic medical records

allow the doctors at BCA to do things like printing a list of all their asthma patients to see what care they need. That’s more effi cient than looking through thousands of paper fi les that are organized alphabeti-cally for each asthma patient.

“It’s better than relying on sticky notes,” Batey adds.

Carson, a BCA vice president, says the EMRs, which became operational in Oc-tober 2010, have allowed her and the practice’s other doctors to track patients’ emergency room visits. If a patient uses an emergency room, the health plan pays for it and shares that information with the practice, Carson says. Before, Carson and her colleagues didn’t know if a patient vis-ited an emergency room unless that patient told them. BCA has spent the $70,000 on new computers, software and staff train-ing on how to use EMRs, Carson says.

So far, the 400,000-member Presbyte-rian Health Plan has made the grants for EMRs and medical home programs to the University of New Mexico Medical Group; First Choice, a group of clinics in Albuquer-que; Presbyterian Medical Group, the doc-tors and providers employed by the health plan; and Presbyterian Medical Services, a statewide network of health centers in rural communities that is not connected to Presbyterian Health Plan. The Business Weekly tried to reach other Medicaid insur-ers for this report, but was unsuccessful.

Batey says the grant to BCA made sense because its doctors comprise 80 percent of the pediatricians in the Roswell area. Grants to other rural medical practices also make sense, he adds, because about half of Presbyterian Health Plan’s members live outside the Albuquerque metropolitan area.


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NM Software offers online second opinions from health care prosBY KEVIN ROBINSON-AVILA | NMBW SENIOR REPORTER

Getting a second opinion from doctors is just an e-mail away, thanks to a new service that New Mexico Software Inc. launched Feb. 16.

The Albuquerque company, which pro-vides Web-based medical and general busi-ness systems software, will offer second-opinion teleradiology interpretation for customers.

The service can be provided to anyone with digital fi les, said President and CEO Dick Govatski.

“There is a solid market for patients and their families who want a second opinion about their medical issues,” Govatski said in a news release. “Even if just to confi rm

a condition that was previously diagnosed, patients often want the reassurance that comes with a another professional review of an initial determination.”

NM Software will tap its current online network of specialists who read teleradi-ology images remotely for the company. Through the company’s XR-Express ser-vice, physicians can read X-rays, CT scans, ultra-sounds, EKGs and more from any-where.

The second-opinion service will be a self-pay system, since most insurance compa-nies do not provide for second-opinion re-imbursement, Govatski said.

“We will accept a valid credit card for the service,” he said. “In addition to providing a written opinion and fi ndings, consulta-tion with the reviewing doctors may also be arranged.”

NM Software (OTCBB: NMXC) formed in 1995. It began trading on the Bulletin Board Exchange in 1999.



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The accounting fi rm signed a lease with Titan Development, which is developing the project.

REDW’s new home initially will ac-commodate 150 employees, but it has been designed for growth and expansion. The two-story, Southwest contemporary, build-to-suit headquarters is being built to achieve LEED Silver certifi cation standards, complete with solar photovoltaic panels that produce 78 kilowatts of power. (LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmen-tal Design — is a U.S. Green Building Coun-cil standard.)

“It’s a great time to build. We are capital-izing on low interest rates, low construction costs and the city of Albuquerque’s impact fee waiver,” said Ron Rivera, REDW’s man-aging principal.

“It’s a positive sign that New Mexico businesses can expand, even in a recover-ing economy.”

REDW acquired nearly three acres last year in the Journal Center corridor and hopes to be in the new building by October. It now leases 30,000 square feet at 6401 Jefferson St. NE. The company has con-sistently been among the three largest ac-counting fi rms in the state.

“Everyone involved in this project, from the architects and the [fi nanciers] to the contractors, are local business owners,” said Drew Dolan, director of development at Titan. “This is a great example of how lo-cal businesses working together can create jobs and contribute to our local economy.”

Titan is among the Duke City’s leading developers and has been active in the Jour-nal Center development for more than a decade.

Paul Sowards and Joe Sierra of Century Bank agreed to provide the fi nancing. Albuquerque architectural fi rm Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, interior architects SMPC, general contractor Reid & Associates and civil engineers Bohannon Huston Inc. are working on the project.

TIG acquires Integrity Networking Systems

The Technology Integration Group has acquired the contracts and assets of Integ-rity Networking Systems Inc. in Albuquer-que.

Integrity, founded in 1992, is a computer systems integrator with offi ces in New Mex-ico and Arizona.

TIG, formed in 1981, is a systems inte-grator based in San Diego, with offi ces in 19 other U.S. cities and in Shanghai, China.

Integrity employees will continue work-ing for TIG, said Glenn Perkal, Integrity founder and co-owner, who will become the business development manager of the newly merged company.

“This acquisition provides more resourc-es for our team at Integrity,” Perkal said in a news release.

“TIG has a very strong team in Albuquer-que and the Integrity staff looks forward to becoming an effective part of that team, and to building an even better future for our customers and vendors.”

TIG President and CEO Bruce Geier said the acquisition helps TIG dig deeper into re-gional markets.

“The addition of Integrity greatly ex-pands TIG’s presence in the New Mexico and Arizona regions, and the acquisition adds personnel and contracts with com-panies and in marketplaces where TIG was not previously involved,” Geier said.

Boeing, Fluor plan bid to run Sandia

The Boeing Co. and Fluor Corp. hope to replace Lockheed Martin Corp. as manager and operator of Sandia National Laborato-ries.

Lockheed’s contract expires in Septem-ber 2012. It has operated Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nu-clear Security Administration since 1993. The lab has a $2.5 billion annual operat-ing budget, including installations in Albu-querque and in Livermore, Calif.

The DOE has not said if it will hold a competitive bid. But Boeing and Fluor will pursue a contract as a team if a bidding process does open, said Boeing Defense and Government Services Vice President Greg Deiter in a news release.

“The Boeing Co. has a long history of managing large-scale research and devel-opment programs,” Deiter said.

“We will draw on that experience to offer innovative approaches to meet the NNSA’s objectives of strengthening performance on national security missions, reducing costs and supporting operations as an inte-grated nuclear security enterprise.”

Chicago-based Boeing has worked on contracts with Sandia for decades. If DOE opens the contract to new bids, the Defense and Government Services division of the DSS division would partner with Fluor to manage the Sandia contract. Boeing em-ploys about 450 in New Mexico.

Fluor is a global provider of engineering, procurement, construction, commission-ing, operations, maintenance and project management services.

Texas-based Fluor is a longtime DOE con-tractor, managing services for the DOE at facilities at Savannah River in South Caro-lina, Hanford in Washington, and Ports-mouth in Piketon, Ohio. The company re-ported $22 billion in revenue in 2009.

Fluor Government Group Senior Vice President Greg Meyer said the DOE could benefi t from the joint capabilities offered by Fluor and Boeing.

“We believe that the complementary resources and skill sets of two world-class companies like Fluor and Boeing offer the NNSA an extremely compelling value proposition,” Meyer said.

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President Barack Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget request for next year is a mixed bag for the business community.

Despite a fi ve-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending, the federal govern-ment would still run a $1.1 trillion defi cit in fi scal 2012 under the president’s plan. Defi -cits in succeeding years would be lower, but the budget plan doesn’t ad-dress the nation’s long-term structural debt and the huge amount of interest that will be owed on it. Many econo-mists, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, say a plan to address this prob-lem needs to be agreed on soon or the fed-eral government, as well as businesses, will face much higher interest rates.

Some industries would benefi t from the president’s budget. Obama’s proposal to immediately spend $50 billion to upgrade the nation’s transportation infrastructure would result in more jobs for the hard-hit construction industry.

“It is encouraging to see that the presi-dent appreciates the difference between wasteful spending and essential transpor-tation investments needed to boost overall economic growth and protect Americans from later, larger fi scal liabilities,” said Stephen Sandherr, CEO of the Associated General Contractors of America.

These gains for the construction industry would be partially offset, however, by re-duced federal spending on water projects, airport improvements and federal building maintenance.

The renewable energy industry would benefi t from tax incentives and increased spending on federal research. The budget encourages innovation in general by call-ing for a permanent, more robust tax credit for research and development.

Plus, Obama proposed a permanent ex-tension of a tax break that’s designed to encourage investment in small businesses. Under this proposal, investors who buy stock in small corporations and hold it for fi ve years would not have to pay capital gains taxes when they sell the stock.

Targeted: oil, multinationals, wealthyMany businesses, however, would see

higher taxes. The president wants to raise $46 billion over the next 10 years by elimi-nating 12 tax breaks for oil, gas and coal companies. This would increase energy costs, said Dorothy Coleman, senior vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers. That’s a problem for man-ufacturers, since they consume one-third of the nation’s energy.

U.S.-based multinational corporations also would face higher taxes on income earned abroad. The budget plan calls for reducing the corporate tax rate to make U.S. companies more competitive with their global counterparts, but that’s tied to elimination of tax breaks that benefi t spe-

cifi c industries.Most small businesses don’t pay corpo-

rate taxes. Their profi ts fl ow through to their owners and are subject to individual income taxes. Wealthier small business owners would face higher taxes under Obama’s plan. The president wants to let income tax rates go up in 2013 for fami-lies that make $250,000 or more. Family-owned businesses could face higher estate taxes. The president thinks the 35 percent rate in effect for the next two years is too low.

“While I had to accept these measures for two more years as part of a compromise that prevented a large tax increase on mid-dle-class families and secured job-creating support for our economy, these policies were unfair and unaffordable when enact-ed and remain so today,” Obama said.

The president’s plan also would partially revive a paperwork burden on small busi-nesses created by health care reform. That law requires businesses that pay $600 or more a year to any other business to fi le a 1099 report with the Internal Revenue Service beginning in 2012. That’s a ma-jor expansion of current 1099 reporting requirements, which now apply only to payments to unincorporated service pro-viders.

After small businesses complained that this provision would create a paper-work nightmare, Democrats — including Obama — agreed with Republicans that it needed to be repealed. The Senate passed legislation repealing the provision Feb. 2, and the House is expected to follow suit in the next few weeks.

The president’s budget plan, however, would expand the 1099 reporting require-ment to payments made to corporations for services.

Obama is guilty of pulling a “a bait-and-switch on the 1099 reporting provision,” said Susan Eckerly, senior vice president of the National Federation of Independent Business.

Congress unlikely to back planBusinesses that don’t like the president’s

tax proposals can take solace in the fact that they “likely are going nowhere,” said Clint Stretch, managing principal of De-loitte Tax LLP.

Congress this year will focus on spending cuts, not taxes, he said.

Dean Zerbe, national managing director of alliantgroup LP, agrees.

“It is diffi cult to see much if any day-light for the tax increases to be passed in this Congress,” said Zerbe, who was senior counsel to the Senate Finance Committee before joining alliantgroup, a provider of specialty tax services. “Most of the pro-posed tax increases are old and cold and were rejected by the Congress when the Democrats ran everything. Hard to imag-ine the Republican House being for a tax increase that the Democrats couldn’t sup-port.”


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Lending to small businesses declined 6.2 percent last year to $652 billion, accord-ing to a new report by the Small Business Administration’s Offi ce of Advocacy.

That’s less, however, than the decline in lending to large businesses, which fell by 8.9 percent.

The report used call report data to com-pare business loans held by banks, thrifts and credit unions in June 2010 with the amount held in June 2009. The biggest decline in small business lending over this period was in commercial real estate loans. Commercial and industrial loans to small businesses were down by 4.1 percent, and increased by 2 percent for loans of $100,000 or less.

Nearly 40 percent of outstanding small business loans in June 2010 were held by the 34 banks that have more than $50 bil-lion in assets.

The report also lists the top small busi-ness lenders, both nationally and by state. Among large fi nancial institutions, the top small business lenders were American Ex-press, Ally Financial, Wintrust Financial, Capital One and BB&T. For business loans in the $100,000 to $1 million range, the

top lenders were Synovus Financial, First Citizens BancShares, Zions Bancorpora-tion, BB&T and Fulton Financial.

For more information, see www.sba.gov/advo.

SBA adopts new income limits, other 8(a) rules The Small Business Administration re-

vised its rules for participation in the 8(a) program, which provides around $19 bil-lion in federal contracts every year to mi-nority-owned businesses.

Small businesses owned by U.S. citizens who are socially or economically disad-vantaged are eligible for the program’s contracting preferences. Under the new rules, individuals must have adjusted gross incomes of $250,000 or less in order to qualify as disadvantaged, unless they can show why an exception should be made. Once in the program, this income thresh-old for 8(a) owners rises to $350,000.

Individuals with assets of more than $4 million (including their homes and busi-nesses) will be presumed to be ineligible for the program. Once in the program, assets must remain under $6 million in order to retain eligibility.

The new rule also included changes de-signed to ensure the program achieves its desired purpose: helping disadvantaged businesses grow.

For example, the new rule requires that 8(a) fi rms perform at least 40 percent of the work when they receive an 8(a) contract as a joint venture with a larger business.

It also addresses concerns about Alaska Native Corporations, which have dominat-ed 8(a) contracting in recent years, since they are exempt from size limits on sole-source contracting awards. The new 8(a) rules require ANCs to report the benefi ts their tribal members have received as a re-sult of their 8(a) contracts.

For more information, see www.sba.gov.

Congress to get Korean trade deal, but business

wants two others Business groups are pleased that Presi-

dent Barack Obama fi nally will send Con-gress a free trade agreement with South Korea, but they also want action on long-stalled deals with Panama and Colombia.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told a House committee that the Obama admin-istration will send the South Korea agree-ment to Congress for a vote “in the next few weeks.” This deal could lead to $10 billion more in U.S. exports to South Korea every year, and support more than 70,000 American jobs, Kirk said.

Serious issues remain, however, on trade deals with Panama and Colombia, Kirk said. He promised to “immediately inten-sify our engagement” to resolve these is-sues “so that Congress can consider them this year.” Labor rights in these countries appear to be the biggest issue standing in the way of fi nal deals.

“We will not sign agreements for agree-ments’ sake,” said Kirk, a former mayor of

Dallas. “They must be enforceable and of the highest standard, in the interests of our workers, farmers and businesses.”

President George W. Bush negotiated trade deals with these two countries, as well as South Korea, in 2007, but the House showed little interest in ratifying these deals when Democrats controlled the chamber.

For more information, see http://way-sandmeans.house.gov.

SBA’s streamlined loan program launched

The Small Business Administration’s new streamlined loan program for busi-nesses in underserved markets kicked off Feb. 15.

That’s the day the SBA’s preferred lend-ers could start making loans through the Small Loan Advantage program, which offers a streamlined application process for loans of up to $250,000. The SBA will guarantee 85 percent of the loan amount for loans of less than $150,000 and 75 percent of larger loans.

The SBA also began accepting applica-tions from community-based fi nancial in-stitutions that want to make government-guaranteed loans through the Community Advantage program. This program com-bines a streamlined process for lower-dol-lar loans with technical assistance to bor-rowers in low-income areas.

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Hispanic-owned

BusinessesRANKED BY 2010 GROSS NEW MEXICO REVENUE

List notesInformation on this list was provided by the businesses and could not be independently veri-fied by the Business Weekly.

It is not the intent of this list to endorse the participants or to imply that the size of an organization necessarily infers the quality of its service. Some companies were unable to reply to information requests by press time or chose not to participate. If your company wants to be considered for inclusion on this list or any other lists, please contact Connie McMahan or visit www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/bol_survey to complete a nomination form.

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To be considered for inclusion on this list, com-panies must be at least 51% Hispanic-owned.

Ties are broken by the number of employees.

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Business name Phone

Address Fax

Top local executive Website

NM:2010 gross revenue

employees

year established Type of business

Percent Hispanic-owned

Majority owner(s)

1The Manuel Lujan Agencies 505-266-77714801 Indian School Road NE Suite 100, Albuquerque 87110 505-255-8140E. Larry Lujan, CEO manuellujan.com

$111.88 million96

1926

insurance agency, property and casualty, employee benefits, life gen-eral risk consulting and safety services

70%E. Larry & Joseph M. Lujan,

Steve Byrd

2Roses Southwest Papers Inc. 505-842-01341701 2nd St. SW, Albuquerque 87102 505-242-0342Roberto E. Espat, CEO rosessouthwest.com

$91 million1661984

manufacturer 100%Roberto E. Espat

3Abba Technologies Inc. 505-889-33371501 San Pedro Drive NE, Albuquerque 87110 505-889-3338Andrew L. Baca, president / CEO abbatech.com

$41 million35

1993IT integration and managed services firm based in Albuquerque 87%

Andrew L. Baca

4Applied Technology Associates / A-TECH Corp. 505-767-12001300 Britt St. SE, Albuquerque 87123 505-767-1379Anthony R. Tenorio, president / CEO aptec.com

$40.32 million75

1975

research and development, engineering services and products for precision sensing, measurement and control

65%Anthony R. Tenorio,

Darren Laughlin

5L&M Technologies Inc. 505-343-02004209 Balloon Park Road NE, Albuquerque 87109 505-343-0300Antonette Montoya, chairman / CFO lmtechnologies.com

$34.5 million3141972

professional and technical services company specializing in facilities management and operations / logistics

100%Antonio Montoya

6Lockwood Construction Co. 505-982-1861406 Botulph Lane Suite 3, Santa Fe 87505 505-983-8966Robert E. Lockwood, president lockwood-construction.com

$18 million35

1948

general contracting, tenant improvement, restoration, green building, specialty projects

100%Robert Lockwood

7ADC Ltd. 505-265-5800909 Virginia St. NE Suite 104, Albuquerque 87108 505-265-4876Brenda Cordova, president adcltdnm.com

$14.01 million1511985

personnel and physical security 100%Arthur D. Cordova

8Enterprise Electrical Services Inc. 505-275-93699708 Bell Ave. SE, Albuquerque 87123 505-275-9382Anthony S. Gutierrez, president enterprisenm.com

$12 million80

1985

electrical / data communications / fiber optics / low voltage special systems / data centers / UPS specialty power systems

100%Anthony and Ruth Gutierrez

9Grant and Associates Mechanical Inc. 505-822-95158905 Washington St. NE, Albuquerque 87113 505-822-9517Michael J. Grant, president / owner none given

$12 million32

1978mechanical contractor 51%

Michael J. Grant

10Team Technologies Inc. 505-291-01821400 Eubank Blvd. SE, Albuquerque 87123 505-271-8354Robert B. Sachs, CEO / president team-technologies.com

$11.2 million67

1986

mechanical and electrical engineering, controls and instrumentation, precision machining, electronic contract manufacturing, electronic parts supplier

91%Robert B. Sachs

11Molzen Corbin 505-242-57002701 Miles Road SE, Albuquerque 87106 505-242-0673Adelmo “Del” Archuleta, CEO molzencorbin.com

$10.29 million74

1960

water, waste water, transportation and aviation engineering; landscap-ing architecture, planning

100%Adelmo “Del” Archuleta

12Sparkle Maintenance Inc. 505-345-55015827 4th St. NW, Albuquerque 87107 505-345-4901Carlo Lucero, president sparklecorp.com

$9.68 million2501964

contract cleaning company / commercial janitorial service 100%Carlo and Paul Lucero

13Zia Engineering & Environmental Consultants LLC 575-532-1526755 S. Telshor Blvd. Suite F-201, Las Cruces 88011 575-532-1587Edward Martinez, president ziaeec.com

$9.25 million88

2000

engineering, environmental consulting, IT/ IS services, safety services, contracting support

65%Edward Martinez

14Jack’s Mechanical Solutions Inc. 505-345-4248P.O. Box 56995, Albuquerque 87187 505-342-1880Gabriel Martinez, president / CEO none given

$8 million90

2004plumbing / HVAC, fabrication, back flow, preventive maintenance 100%

Gabriel Martinez

15Networx Inc. 505-346-07003813 Hawkins St. NE, Albuquerque 87109 505-346-0701Matthew Martinez, president networxinc.com

$6 million12

1995information technology services 100%

Matthew Martinez

16GenQuest Inc. 505-246-28291805 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Suite 2, Albuquerque 87104 505-246-0193Terri Giron-Gordon, president genquestinc.com

$4.71 million34

1995

professional services, training, executive coaching, mediation, facilita-tion, event planning, evaluation, administrative and technical support

100%Terri Giron-Gordon

17Advanced Environmental Solutions Inc. 505-861-17002318 Roldan Drive, Belen 87002 505-864-1710Robert J. Chavez, president aesnm.com

$3.9 million20

2000environmental, construction and underground utilities company 100%

Robert Chavez

18SMI Facility Services 505-888-51303412 Bryn Mawr St. NE, Albuquerque 87107 505-888-5158Steve Garcia, vice president smihome.com

$3.8 million2751992

contract cleaning services 100%Valentin Garcia

19Home Instead Senior Care 505-884-0353585 Osuna Road NE Suite F, Albuquerque 87113 505-830-2547Mary G. Martinez, owner homeinstead.com/144

$3.56 million11

1996non-medical home care company, specializing in help for seniors 100%

Mary Martinez

20Fox Electric / Fox Builder Inc. 505-866-7957231 Sandoval Road SW, Los Lunas 87031 505-866-8839Billy Baca, owner foxelectricltd.com

$3.4 million15

1993electrical, utility and HVAC contractor 100%

Rebecca and Billy Baca

21Queston Construction Inc. 505-897-67877518 2nd St. NW, Albuquerque 87107 505-890-0157Tina Cordova, president queston.net

$2.3 million25

1990general and roofing contractor 60%

Tina Cordova

22PMC Solutions 505-842-1099300 Central Ave. SW Suite 1000E, Albuquerque 87102 505-842-6503Alberto Garza, president / CEO www.inprocess.com

$2 million7

1992

government contractor, technology company, consulting, project management

100%Alberto Garza

23Alliance Landscaping Inc. 505-342-12766841 Fourth St. NW, Albuquerque 87107 505-890-0778Jerome Maldonado, president / owner landscapenewmexico.com

$1.76 millionNA

1996landscape and concrete contractor, landscape installation and design 100%

Jerome Maldonado

24Galactic Network Integrators Inc. 505-508-54015353 Wyoming Blvd. NE Suite 7, Albuquerque 87109 505-508-5590Ruben Navarro, president / CEO gni-inc.com

$1.56 million29

1998

service-disabled veteran-owned small business and 8(a) company that specializes in information technology / program management

100%Ruben Navarro

25Scott’s Auto Supply Inc. 575-835-0550602 California St., Socorro 87801 575-835-3113Lori Romero, president socorro-nm.com/scott’s-auto.htm

$1.3 million8

1970NAPA auto parts 100%

Lori and Frank Romero

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Jo Jo Montoya, owner of Mood Full Ser-

vice Salon, understands what it takes to make a small business successful: hard work, long hours and excellent customer service.

From the beginning of her career, she had a clear goal — to own a salon.

When she started as a hairstylist, Montoya had two choices. She could work at a chain and be paid on commission, or rent a booth in

a salon. She chose the latter.“There’s a lot of opportunity out there,”

she said. “I wanted to do a booth rental be-cause it’s like being your own boss, you just rent that little space.”

After she fi nished school in June 2006, Montoya rented a booth at Forever Young in Old Town. She also began saving mon-

ey and attending Individual Devel-opment Accounts (IDA) classes

through nonprofi t WESST.“She went through some of

our fi nancial literacy classes, so she had a good understand-

ing on how to make her expenses low,” said

Barbara Lopez, IDA coordina-tor for WESST.

“[IDA] was a 10-week course where she learned about budgeting, debt elimi-nation, credit repair and a little bit about investing and saving. She also created her own business plan, and her whole goal was to start her new business.”

From Montoya’s previous job as a blackjack dealer — where her income large-ly depended on tips from gamblers — and watch-ing how other stylists ran their booths, she knew how important customer ser-vice was to maintaining a steady clientele.

After a year at Forever Young, she moved to a salon called Venus and Mars, at Menaul and Moon. The owner

eventually offered to sell the business to her. She renamed the salon Art-istry of Life and ran it

for two years. Its other occupants included a

couple of barbers.

Montoya kept laying the groundwork to launch her own business. She found the perfect Downtown location for her salon in a family-owned, 112-year-old home, which needed plenty of work. She decided to renovate the building herself.

“I had money set aside, but not enough. We had a choice. I could either pay some-one to do the renovation and get used equipment, or do the renovation myself, with my fi ancé, and get new equipment.”

To fi nance the renovation, Montoya ob-tained a $50,000 loan from WESST in ad-dition to the $35,000 she had been saving for such an opportunity.

“Her vision was very focused, and she was very tenacious about how to obtain her goals. Her work ethic really stood out against other people. She was working full time, and would go after work every day to fi x up the property,” Lopez said.

The renovation of the century-old build-ing took a year to complete.

“It was really tough. I hated it and I wanted to give up, but I had to keep the big picture in my head. That’s what kept me motivated,” Montoya said.

“My fi ancé is a metal fabricator, a car-penter. So, he has the skill. That’s how we knew everything was right. The things that were out of our hands, like installing a new furnace, or the stucco outside, we hired outside [help].”

When the hard work of the renovation was completed, the really hard work be-gan. Mood opened in February 2010.

“One of the biggest challenges I faced was moving from the east side all the way to Downtown and making sure my clien-tele base was going to come with me,” she said.

Montoya did the legwork to make sure her clients followed her.

“I got all their information and sent them cards and told them where I was going to be moving. I did that a few times,” she said. “I didn’t lose many clients, maybe just a handful. That’s what makes me feel like I’m doing something right. It all goes back to customer service, how you make the cus-

tomer feel in the chair.”The recession complicated the picture.

At Mood, women’s haircuts start at $40, men’s haircuts start at $20, hair color starts at $50 and a basic manicure or pedi-cure starts at $20.

“With the economy that we are in, a lot of my clients were cutting back, so that was a challenge. But I didn’t raise my prices, and told them that we can work through this time together. Some of my clients lost their jobs and needed a haircut, so I still gave it to them,” Montoya said.

With customer service like that, and by keeping her clients informed about what she’s doing and the products she’s using, Montoya continued to grow her clientele. She went from fewer than 200 clients when she moved Downtown to 300 after a year in her new location.

To get her name out, she mails postcards, has a Facebook page for the salon, is creat-ing a website and advertised in Albuquer-que the Magazine. But most of her new business comes from customer referrals.

Now, her main challenge is fi nding the right employees. Montoya has one part-time employee, and has been through six others in the past year.

“I went to a seminar, and they said, ‘Hire slow, fi re fast.’

“If I get someone in, and I know they are not working out, I give them some ideas to help and lead them, and if they don’t make those changes, maybe they can fi nd some-where else to work,” she said.

Mood Full Service Salon owner Jo Jo Montoya built ex-pertise as a hairstylist before opening her salon.

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Jo Edna Boldin loves ‘fairy godmother’ role of casting directorBY MEGAN KAMERICK | NMBW SENIOR REPORTER

Jo Edna Boldin started her creative career early. Her mother sent her on stage at age four in Corsicana, Texas, to tap dance and sing.

“Then she didn’t understand why I didn’t grow up to be an accountant,” Bold-in said.

For years, Boldin, 61, worked toward an acting career. She attended the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago and studied

mime in San Francisco before heading to Los Angeles. She took a job at a casting agency while pursuing acting gigs. But she discovered her true calling was helping others succeed in front of the camera.

“It’s really cool to make people’s dreams come true,” she said. “I feel like I get to be a fairy godmother.”

Boldin is one of the most successful casting directors in New Mexico and has worked on fi lms such as “True Grit,” “The Book of Eli, and “No Country for Old Men,”

for which she won an Artios Award from the Casting Society of America.

Her specialty and her passion are not fi nd-ing the big stars, but the locals, usually for smaller speaking roles. So while she didn’t fi nd Hailee Steinfeld, the young breakout star of “True Grit,” she did fi nd her acting double in New Mexico, Courtney Cunning-ham. Since Steinfeld was underage, her time on the set was limited by labor laws. Cunningham was there for camera shots over her shoulder and to speak Steinfeld’s

lines so Jeff Bridges or Matt Damon could deliver their lines.

Boldin did the same thing as Lily Tomlin’s acting double for “The Incredible Shrink-ing Woman” in 1979. It convinced her that she might fi nd more fulfi llment behind the camera.

“I don’t think they treated her well and I thought, ‘If they don’t treat Lily Tomlin with the respect she deserves, maybe being a movie star is not all it’s cracked up to be,’”

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Posing with the posters of some of the fi lms she’s help cast actors for is Jo Edna Boldin, at Louie’s Rock-N-Heels shop in Albuquerque.


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she observed.She moved back to Texas in the early

1980s, when she saw the fi lm industry tak-ing off there, and started her own casting company. She worked on and off in New Mexico for 20 years, then sold her house in Austin four years ago to locate perma-nently in Taos.

That’s where Boldin escapes on the weekends to decompress. During the week, she puts in long hours in the offi ces of her company, 505 Studio Works LLC in Albu-querque, auditioning actors. And she is constantly on the hunt for new faces.

“Sometimes I go to the casinos because there is every kind of person you can imag-ine,” she said. “The only problem is some-times they don’t take me seriously.”

She happened to be in Target one day and found someone for a role in the upcoming television movie “Let Them Shine.” And while attending her godson’s play, she found a young African-American girl dur-ing intermission to fi ll another role in the production.

“I can’t turn it off,” she said. “I’m always looking for people.”

Boldin fi lms auditions in her offi ce, often with her dog, Vindito, a Chihuahua mix, seated nearby. She uploads the videos so directors can see them.

Producer Lester Berman has worked with Boldin on a number of productions, including the series “Wildfi re.”

“She fi nds the best, most talented people and makes my life a dream,” he said. “She is very conscious of the acting pool in New Mexico and the surrounding areas, and she’s a pro.”

Of course, the fi nal decision on casting is not up to Boldin. And on some produc-tions, the decision gets kicked up through many layers of executives.

“But she has a lot to say about whose vid-eo we look at, so her recommendations are taken quite seriously,” Berman said.

One key to her success has been listening to her instincts, Boldin said.

“I trust the universe. I know that sounds airy fairy, but I get the message to see that person, I will throw in that wild card and often that person will get the role,” she said.

Sometimes other forces conspire against that intuition. She was successful in cast-ing an unknown Renee Zellweger as a day player for the fi lm “8 Seconds.” She brought a young man to audition eight times, but just couldn’t get him cast. It was Matthew McConaughey.

“Bless his heart. Sometimes I have a vi-sion and the director doesn’t have it, and there’s nothing you can do to change that,” she said. “You just have to let that go.”

Janet Hirshenson is a co-owner of the Los Angeles fi rm The Casting Co. She writes about working with Boldin on the fi lm “Friday Night Lights” in the book “A

Star is Found.” “I like the way she deals with people,”

Hirshenson told the Business Weekly. “You bring out the best in actors by treating them respectfully. They come in and spill their guts, and pick them up and walk out of the room, so it’s a brave thing they do. She’s very nurturing.”

Actor Lora Cunningham, who Boldin helped cast in “The Book of Eli” and “Bless Me, Ultima,” credits Boldin with chang-ing her life. She was taking one of her au-ditioning workshops and the theme was “You are enough.” Cunningham said the moment she heard that phrase, she actu-ally started to tremble and cry.

“It was one of those moments where I needed to hear that as an actor, and more importantly as a human being,” Cunning-ham said. “Ever since then, I’ve had a con-fi dence and a peace in my work, and in my life too.”

Boldin gives actors the feeling she is on their side, she added. She also recruited Cunningham to serve on the board of New Mexico Women in Film.

“Whatever she does, she makes sure it matters,” Cunningham said. “She’s just that type of person.”

Boldin also has become a sought-after teacher for fi lm audition techniques. She might end up doing more of that, travel-ing as necessary, if the state’s fi lm incen-tives are curtailed, she said. Gov. Susana Martinez has proposed reducing the state’s rebate to 15 percent from 25 percent and another bill proposes to cap them.

“I want to stay living here, and if I have to travel for some work, I’ll do that,” she said.

Boldin recently did a stint on a series be-ing fi lmed in Dallas. One reason she took the job was to prepare for jobs elsewhere, if things slow down here. She has been ap-proached by several people to help them put together independent fi lms, which might mean a producer credit.

Boldin still gets excited when she gets a call for a new job. So far, she has mostly avoided casting movie stars, leaving that to the L.A. agencies, although those offers have been coming more frequently.

“I like fi nding new people and working on the local level. It’s what I’m good at and I don’t like playing all the L.A. negotiating games,” Boldin said. “If I was 20, I would have taken it as a golden opportunity, but I’m not 20 and I don’t want to do it.”


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BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI | NMBW STAFF

Albuquerque attorney Marjorie A. Rog-ers says New Mexico is a pretty good place to die — at least when it comes to probat-ing your estate.

Unlike in many other states, especially Eastern states, probating an estate in New Mexico is relatively quick, inexpensive and easy.

“If you really have to pick a state to be a resident of when you die, New Mexico is a good one. New York is the worst state to be

a resident of when you die. In New York, it could take years to probate an estate,” says Rogers, a shareholder at the Modrall Sper-ling law fi rm.

In New Mexico, probating — distributing an estate to heirs and paying creditors and taxes — can take as little as six months. But that’s only if wills are properly pre-pared and survivors aren’t fi ghting and hiring lawyers.

Determining how to distribute your es-tate, and ensuring your wishes are fulfi lled after you’re gone, is a complex process that

is full of surprises.Estate planning is especially important

as politicians in Washington, D.C., con-tinue to grapple with the national estate tax, experts say. Late last year, Congress ex-tended the federal tax cuts of 2001-2003. That move reinstated the estate tax for two years, but set the exemption at $5 million per person before the tax must be paid.

Wills are necessary to ensure that an es-tate goes to the person whom the deceased intended to receive it. If there is no will, the state assumes that the estate goes to spous-

es and children.In New Mexico, there are

two ways to probate an es-tate: in state District Court, or through the 33 probate courts in each of the state’s counties. Wills and estates that aren’t contested can go to the probate courts, which are less costly and less formal.

It costs $30 to fi le a pro-bate case in Bernalillo County Probate Court, and $132 to fi le one in state Dis-trict Court, says Bernalillo County Probate Judge Wil-low Misty Parks.

In 2010, 688 probate cas-es were fi led in state District Court in Bernalillo County, and 573 were fi led in coun-ty probate court, says for-mer Bernalillo County Pro-bate Judge Merri Rudd.

Probate fi lings have in-creased slightly in Bernalillo County in the past decade. In 2000, 1,011 probate cases were fi led in both Pro-bate and District Court in Bernalillo County, court re-cords show. In 2010, 1,261 cases were fi led.

Probate and estate plan-ning is a small legal practice in New Mexico. The State Bar of New Mexico has 6,400 members. Of those, 267 say they do some pro-bate and estate work, and

seven are licensed by the state Supreme Court as experts in the fi eld.

In Bernalillo County Probate Court, about 60 percent of cases are handled pro se, or without a lawyer, Parks says.

The complexities of inheritanceIf you have money in a bank or invest-

ment account and intend that it be left equally to your four children, that won’t happen unless you plan properly. Benefi -ciaries always trump wills, and if one child

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Bruce Puma, an attorney at estate planning fi rm Swaim & Finlayson, says the process of probating an estate begins long before a death.

Estate lawyers ensure that everyone gets fair share

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The inheritance experts

is named as the benefi ciary on the account, all the money will go to that child. To dis-tribute it equally to four children, all four would have to be named as benefi ciaries on the account, experts say.

The process of probating an estate begins long before a death, says Bruce Puma, an attorney and CPA at the Albuquerque es-tate planning fi rm of Swaim & Finlayson.

There are do-it-yourself will kits, but Puma recommends seeing an attorney be-cause of the complexities. It costs $800 on average to prepare a will in New Mexico, he adds.

“Say you have a sibling or child who is re-ceiving government benefi ts. All of a sud-den, they get money from an estate, and they lose those benefi ts because there are income thresholds that the government has,” Puma says.

Issues of trustYou also might want to put your estate

into a living trust instead of a will.Wills are public records once they are pro-

bated, and a person might not want their asset-distribution wishes to be known. In that case, a trust is the way to go, because

they are secret and not subject to pro-bate, Puma adds.

In trusts, a trustee is appointed to dis-tribute assets over time, according to

the exact orders of the deceased. “If you have a child who is a

reckless spender, you might not want to leave them a lot of mon-ey at once,” Puma says. “Some people just can’t manage mon-ey, and there are good reasons to do [trusts].”

Parks says a full set of trust

documents costs between $3,000 and $4,000.

Leaving a will doesn’t guarantee your wishes will be carried out, as wills can be challenged. In New Mexico, they can be challenged on four grounds. (Want to see how well you know New Mexico’s probate system? Try the quiz at right.)

“One is a lack of capacity. You have Aunt Mae sitting in a nursing home for years with Alzheimer’s disease, and you say, ‘I know she wants to leave me such and such,’ and you have her sign a will. That probably won’t stand up,” Rogers says.

“Another ground for challenge is undue infl uence. Mother might be staying with a child, and the child says, ‘Include me in your will or I won’t cook you any more meals.’”

Fraud and mistakes are the other grounds for challenging wills.

Parks says the issue is complex, as there can be trusts inside a will, and documents that make a will unnecessary.

One is a death deed bypass, which turns over title to property without having to go through probate. All that’s required to exe-cute a death deed bypass at a county clerk’s offi ce is a death certifi cate, Parks says.

Parks, an attorney since 2004, says at least one circumstance in New Mexico bars a person from inheriting assets from someone.

“We have a slayer rule in New Mexico,” Parks says. “If you have caused the death of someone feloniously, you cannot inherit from them.”



This quiz will test your knowledge of New Mexico’s probate and estate system.

1. All of your money will go to the government if you don’t make a will.

True or false?

2. How old do you have to be to make a will in New Mexico?

a) 18 b) 21 c) 14 d) any age

3. You can bypass probate court if you make a will.

True or false?

4. If you put your property in a trust, you do not have to pay “death” or estate taxes.

True or false?

5. How many witnesses are required for a valid will in New Mexico?

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) noneQuiz courtesy of Willow Misty Parks, Bernalillo County probate judge

Answers: 1. False 2. A 3. False 4. False 5. B

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Are you an enlightened heir

or a

befuddled benefi ciary?

Willow Misty Parks is the probate judge for Bernalillo County, where 1,261 probate cases were fi led in the county courts last year.

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AttorneysParalegals

Staff

PartnersAssociatesOf counsel Some firm specialties Some major clients

1Modrall Sperling Law Firm 505-848-1800500 Fourth St. NW 10th Floor, Albuquerque 87102 505-848-1899R. E. Thompson, president modrall.com

791784

53215

litigation; real estate; tax; corporate; public finance; employment and labor; natural resources; energy

BHP Billiton, Walmart, Albuquerque Public Schools, Walgreens, Bank of Albuquerque, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.

2Rodey Dickason Sloan Akin & Robb PA 505-765-5900201 Third St. NW Suite 2200, Albuquerque 87102 505-768-7395Charles J. Vigil, managing director rodey.com

671760

42196

banking, bonds, securities, entertain-ment, environment, estate, probate, intellectual property

Intel, Los Alamos National Lab, Zurich North America, PNM, UNM, CNM, Sandia, Toyota, Bank of America, Smiths, Western Refining

3Sutin Thayer & Browne 505-883-25006565 Americas Parkway NE Suite 1000, Albuquerque 87110 505-888-6565Jay D. Rosenblum, president / CEO sutinfirm.com

521357

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business and civil litigation, business transactions, public finance, employ-ment

ND

4Keleher & McLeod PA 505-346-4646201 Third St. NW Suite 1200, Albuquerque 87102 505-346-1370Kurt Wihl, president keleher-law.com

37655

20107

commercial civil litigation; contract law; antitrust; securities and corporate matters; personal injury

major corporations, businesses, civic enti-ties, individuals

5Miller Stratvert Law Firm 505-842-1950500 Marquette Ave. NW Suite 1100, Albuquerque 87102 505-243-4408Stephan M. Vidmar, president / managing director mstlaw.com

361041

23103

medical malpractice defense, public utility, real estate, land use / develop-ment, employment, corporate

State of New Mexico, PNM Resources, Compass Bank

6Butt Thornton & Baehr PC 505-884-07774101 Indian School Road NE Suite 300, Albuquerque 87110 505-889-8870Rod L. Schlagel, president btblaw.com

321341

19103

general liability; personal injury; prod-ucts liability; sports and recreation; commercial litigation and transactions

insurance companies, product manufactur-ers, individuals and small businesses, truck-ing companies, financial institutions

7Hinkle Hensley Shanor & Martin LLP 575-622-6510400 Penn Plaza Suite 700, Roswell 88201 575-623-9332C. D. Martin, managing partner hinklelawfirm.com

29425

2361

oil and gas, environmental, utility law, medical malpractice defense, litigation, natural resource law

Southwestern Public Service Co., ExxonMobil, EOG Resources, State of NM, St. Vincent Hospital, BRK Electronics

8Montgomery & Andrews PA 505-982-3873325 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe 87501 505-982-4289Walter Melendres, president montand.com

28423

217

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construction; government relations, medical malpractice; natural resourc-es; oil and gas

American Insurance Association; Community Health Systems Inc.; Qwest Corp.; Energen Resources Corp.; Chevron Mining Inc.

9Allen Shepherd Lewis Syra & Chapman PA 505-341-01104801 Lang Ave. NE Suite 200, Albuquerque 87109 505-341-3434Donna Chapman, president allenlawnm.com

23126

7161

insurance defense litigation, construc-tion defect, insurance, employment law, commercial transactions

CNA, Liberty Mutual, Zurich Insurance, Geico, AP Assurance

10Sheehan & Sheehan PA 505-247-041140 First Plaza NW Suite 740, Albuquerque 87103 505-842-8890Timothy M. Sheehan, president sheehansheehan.com

15316

744

administrative law, arbitration and mediation, commercial litigation, con-struction and procurement law

Jaynes Corp., Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Department of Transportation, University of New Mexico

11Moses Dunn Farmer & Tuthill PC 505-843-9440612 First St. NW, Albuquerque 87102 505-247-3213Mark A. Glenn, managing partner moseslaw.com

1329

94

NA

real estate, banking, contracts, employment, estate planning

Wells Fargo, First Community Bank, Sandia Properties, Rax, Bohannan Huston

12Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLC 505-244-0770201 Third St. NW Suite 1700, Albuquerque 87102 505-244-9266Perry Bendicksen III, managing partner bhfs.com

1346

823

corporate and business; public finance; securities; transactional; commercial litigation; tax; real estate

City of Albuquerque, Qwest Corp., Intel Corp.

13Rothstein Donatelli Hughes Dahlstrom Schoenburg & Bienvenu LLP 505-988-80041215 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe 87501 505-982-0307Robert R. Rothstein, partner rothsteinlaw.com

1369

772

criminal defense, civil rights, class actions, civil litigation, American Indian law, domestic relations

pueblos of Santa Ana and Santa Clara, Gila River Indian community, U.S. Forest Service

14Comeau Maldegen Templeman & Indall LLP 505-982-4611141 E. Palace Ave. Second Floor, Santa Fe 87501 505-988-2987Michael Comeau, partner cmtisantafe.com

1236

921

commercial litigation, natural resourc-es, environmental, real estate, utility, telecommunications and corporate

CHRISTUS St. Vincent, Barrick Gold of North America, Exchange Carrier Group, Santa Fe Trust

15Scheuer Yost & Patterson PC 505-982-9911P.O. Drawer 9570, Santa Fe 87504 505-982-1621Ralph H. Scheuer, managing partner santafelawyers.com

1229

651

real estate, commercial transactions, alternative dispute resolution, educa-tion, estate planning and wealth mgmt.

Rio Rancho Public Schools, Lensic Performing Arts Corp., The Club at Las Campanas, Century Bank

16Civerolo Gralow Hill & Curtis PA 505-842-825520 First Plaza NW Suite 500, Albuquerque 87102 505-764-6099Robert J. Curtis, president civerolo.com

11314

631

general insurance defense, medical malpractice, products liability, employ-ment law, trucking accidents

State Risk Management, Western Litigation, Chubb Ins., Carolina Casualty, Philadelphia Ins., Canal Ins., Titan Ins., Nationwide Ins.

17Holland & Hart LLP 505-988-4421110 N. Guadalupe St. Suite 1, Santa Fe 87501 505-983-6043Michael Feldewert, administrative partner hollandhart.com

1118

64

NA

oil and gas; commercial litigation; labor and employment; water; natural resources litigation

ND

18Guebert Bruckner PC 505-823-23006801 Jefferson Road NE Suite 400, Albuquerque 87109 505-823-9600Terry R. Guebert, partner guebertlaw.com

11311

353

insurance defense, bad faith; personal injury; tort; product liability and com-plex litigation

State Farm Insurance Cos., Zurich North American Insurance Group, Arch Insurance Co.

19Jones Snead Wertheim & Wentworth PA 505-982-00111800 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe 87504 505-989-6288Jerry Wertheim, president thejonesfirm.com

1025

82

NA

personal injury, estates, wills, trusts, trademarks, copyrights, water law, telecommunications, employment

ND

20Atkinson & Kelsey PA 505-883-30702155 Louisiana Blvd. NE Suite 2000, Albuquerque 87110 505-889-3111Virginia R. Dugan, partner atkinsonkelsey.com

10421

64

NA

collaborative law; prenuptial agree-ments; military divorces; adoptions and guardianships; child custody

ND

21Hurley Toevs Styles Hamblin & Panter PA 505-888-11884155 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Albuquerque 87109 505-888-9215Patrick Hurley, shareholder hurleyfirm.com

1027

622

estate planning; asset protection planning; trust and estate litigation; probate, employee benefits

ND

22Holt Babington Mynatt Martinez 575-524-88121660 Hickory Loop, Las Cruces 88005 575-524-0726Blaine T. Mynatt, president hbm-law.com

10212

282

civil litigation, estate planning, real estate, commercial ND

23Atwood Malone Turner & Sabin PA 575-622-6221400 N. Pennsylvania Ave. Suite 1100, Roswell 88201 575-624-2883Robert Sabin, shareholder atwoodmalone.com

956

722

insurance defense litigation; oil and gas; commercial litigation

The Doctors Co.; Mt. States Insurance; State Farm Insurance; State of NM Risk Mgmt. Division

24Rubin Katz Law Firm PC 505-982-3610123 E. Marcy St. Suite 200, Santa Fe 87501 505-988-1286James S. Rubin, vice president rubinkatzlaw.com

937

432

real estate, corporate, estate planning, commercial litigation, construction

CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Wolf Creek Ski Area, Santa Fe Institute

25Peacock Myers PC 505-998-1500201 Third St. NW Suite 1340, Albuquerque 87102 505-243-2542Deborah A. Peacock, president peacocklaw.com

9715

333

patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, lobbying, searches and related litigation

NMSU, Lockheed Martin, Sandia Labs, Explora, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, MIOX, Ktech, A-TECH, Flywheel Ventures

Join us in welcoming our 2011 shareholders.

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Oil & Gas Law

Lorena OlmosLitigation, Employment and

Healthcare Law

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Susan M. BisongWater, Natural Resources and

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■ ACHIEVEMENTSRonald E. Schranz, CPA with Burt & Co., has earned the certifi ed valuation

analyst designation from the National Association of Certifi ed Valuation Analysts. Schranz is the fi rm’s senior partner in charge of audit and accounting services. He has been with the fi rm for more than 12 years, and has 26 years of experience

in public accounting. Schranz holds a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Rhode Island.

Keith Meyer, CCIM, has earned the Society of Investment and Offi ce Realtors designa-tion. Meyer is a director at Maestas & Ward, specializing in industrial, land and investment sales. He has worked in the commercial real estate industry since 1992. Meyer has com-pleted 157 sales and leasing transactions in the past fi ve years, totaling more than $100 million in sales.

■ AWARDSUniversity of New Mexico School of Law Professor Christine Zuni Cruz has received the 2010 Pincus Award from the Association

of American Law Schools. The award honors indi-viduals that have “demon-strated excellence in service, scholarship, program design and implementation, that is benefi cial to clinical educa-tion or to the advancement of justice.” Zuni Cruz is the

founder and former direc-tor of the UNM School of Law’s Southwest Indian Law Clinic. She is a member of Isleta Pueblo.

New Mexico Assistant Attorney General Karen J. Meyers has been named the 2011 recipient of the Justice Mary Walters Award. The award honors an “outstanding woman” in the New Mexico legal community. Mey-ers is the director of the state’s Consumer Protection Division.

■ BANKINGWells Fargo has hired Guido Kemp as a commercial banking manager for its regional commercial banking offi ce. Kemp has 25

years of fi nancial services experience. He started his career with Wells Fargo in 2004 as a loan team manager. He will work out of the bank’s main branch in downtown Albu-querque, at 200 Lomas Blvd. NW.

■ BOARDSJeff Parker, regional director of Manpower Inc., was elected chairman of the Albuquer-que Economic Development board. Other offi cers are Chairman-Elect Jennifer Thomas, Bank of Albuquer-que; Secretary Steve Mae-stas, Maestas & Ward; and Treasurer Leean Kravitz, Fidelity Investments. New directors are Norman Becker, New Mexico Mutu-al; Jim Chynoweth, CB Richard Ellis; Tom Croston, GAP Inc.; H. Patrick Dee, (U.S. Bank, N.A.); Ken Easley, Flintco Construc-tive Services Inc.; Joe Fortuin, Sennheiser New Mexico LLC; Liz Shipley, Intel Corp.; and Rick White, BBVA Compass Bank.

Futures for Children has elected two board members: Sandra Baldonado and Henry Ziegler, M.D. Baldonado is a family and es-tate planning lawyer. She was previously the mayor of Claremont, Calif. Ziegler is retired from the health Insurance industry.

Presbyterian Health Plan has named Leslie Margolin and Steven Jenkusky, M.D., as board members. Margolin is the president and CEO of The Margolin Group. She was previously the president and general manager of Anthem Blue Cross in Calif. She serves as chair of the board of directors for the March of Dimes. Margolin earned her law degree from Hofstra University. Jenkusky is the medical director for the be-havioral health service line at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. He is chief of psychiatry for Presbyterian Medical Group. Jenkusky earned his medical degree from Southern Illinois University of Medicine.

■ CONTRACTORSThe Associated General Contractors-New Mexico Building Branch has hired Mike Pu-elle as its director of public policy and gov-ernment relations. Puelle leads the chapter’s efforts to affect public policy relating to AGC members and the construction industry in New Mexico. Previously, Puelle co-founded

and co-managed two New Mexico-based lobbying fi rms, which focused in the areas of sustainable economic development, public education, renewable energy and tribal gov-ernment issues. He has a degree in political science from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in public management from the University of Maryland.

■ HEALTH CAREPresbyterian Healthcare’s pediatric urgent care unit has hired three physicians: Heath-er Devlin, M.D., Cassandra E. Millea, M.D. and Gim Huat Tan, M.D. Previously, Devlin worked with pediatric patients at the Ameri-can Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has degrees in psychology and biology from Union College, N.Y., and earned her medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Millea previously worked for South-west Medical Associates of Albuquerque. She has a degree in biology and earned her medical de-gree from the University of New Mexico. Tan previously worked at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Fla., and Rehoboth McKinley Christian Healthcare Services in Gallup. He has 15 years of experience in pe-diatrics. Tan earned his medical degree from the National University of Singapore.

■ LAWThe Modrall Sperling Law Firm has named fi ve shareholders. They are Samantha M. Adams, Susan Bisong, Emil J. Kiehne, Marte D. Lightstone and Lorena Olmos. Modrall Sperling is one of New Mexico’s larg-est law fi rms, with more than 80 attorneys.

■ REAL ESTATEAretha Mitchell has joined Keller Williams Realty’s Westside offi ce in Albuquerque. Mitchell is an experienced real estate broker who works in residential resale and the new construction market. She has been a Realtor since 2007 and specializes in the Albuquerque met-ropolitan and Rio Rancho areas. She served in the U.S. Air Force and previously worked for Southwest Airlines.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

■ February 22Event: Book of Business Lists 101

Time: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.Host: New Mexico Business Weekly

Contact: [email protected]

■ February 23Event: “Hire the best” featuring Roy Martinez

Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.Host: Greater ABQ Chamber of Commerce


Event: Tax law seminars Time: 9:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

Host: Wilcox Law FirmContact: (505) 554-1115

Event: Biz Gratis mixerTime: 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Host: Dunn-Edwards PaintsContact: (505) 344-3558

■ February 24Event: Lynn Trojahn talks customer service

Time: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.Host: ACCIÓN


■ February 26Event: American Clay demonstration

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Host: Southwest Green Building Center

Contact: (505) 821-6259

■ March 2Event: What if you could do one thing and

that one thing changed everything?Time: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Host: Results 4 BusinessContact: [email protected]

Event: LEED certifi cation w/ Melanie DubinTime: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Host: U.S. Green Building CouncilContact: (505) 227-0474

■ March 3Event: Breakfast with the Business Weekly

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m.Host: New Mexico Business Weekly


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■ BANKRUPTCYChapter 7A “straight” bankruptcy involving an appointed trustee to sell all assets by auction or other means to pay creditors and trustees fees.

Chapter 11A process which allows a business to gain temporary relief from paying debts in order to reorganize. The debtor remains in control of the business during the bankruptcy, and the business continues to function.

Chapter 13A bankruptcy plan available to individuals whose income is sufficiently stable to enable the individual to make payments under a plan to a trustee who disburses the funds to creditors. ■ Real Estate Transactions: The transfer of real estate as provided by the County Clerk. Information includes buyer, seller, address, property description. ■ Building Permits: Newly issued permits collected from the planning commission of each county. It includes the contractors, owner of the property and type and size of the project.■ Tax Liens: Encumbrances placed on property as a claim for payment of a tax liability. We list both state and federal tax liens. ■ Mechanics’ Liens: A lien against buildings or other structures, to contractors, laborers or suppliers of materials used in their construction or repair. A mechanic’s lien gives contractors priority over other creditors in case of liquidation. ■ Judgments/ Lawsuits: The plaintiff and the defendant are listed, as well as the amount of judg-ment, if determined. ■ Building Permits: Permits granted by the city or county to build. ■ New Business Licenses/ New Corporations: Newly licensed or incorporated businesses.

Bankruptcies 18

Building Permits/Commercial 19

Building Permits/Residential 19

Judgments/Lawsuits 18

Liens 18

New Business Licenses 19

New Corporations 19

Real Estate Transactions/Commercial 18

Tax Liens 18

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BANKRUPTCIESDistrict of New Mexico Albuquerque Division

Chapter 7

Hogle’s Theatrical Supplies Inc., 3225 Richards Lane Suite B, Santa Fe 87507; Assets, $0 to $50,000; Debts, $100,001 to $500,000; Major Creditor, not shown; Attorney, Patricia A. Bradley; case #11-10512, 02/08/11.

Chapter 11

Page One Inc., 11018 Montgomery Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87111; Assets, $799,183; Debts, $1,371,258; Major Credi-tor, not shown; Attorney, Steven Tal Young; case #11-10511, 02/08/11.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS - COMMERCIAL

Bernalillo County

Mary Montoya to Focus Management Group LLC, P.O. Box 16386, Albuquerque 87191, Lot 9 Block 2 Tierra Oeste, Book/Page 2011008246, 01/24/11.

D&S Two Ltd. to Paradise West Inc., 8232 Louisiana Blvd. N.E. Suite C, Albuquerque 87113, Sec. 16 11 02, Book/Page 2011009583, 01/26/11.

Toma Alliance Group LLC to Oasis Mort-gage and Investments LLC, 4300 Paakweree Blvd. S.W., Albuquerque 87121, Unit 68 Paak-weree Village, Book/Page 2011010691, 01/31/11.

Toma Alliance Group LLC to Oasis Mort-gage and Investments LLC, 4300 Paakweree Blvd. S.W., Albuquerque 87121, Unit 59 Paak-weree Village, Book/Page 2011010693, 01/31/11.

The Spiritual Renewal Center Inc. to Protes-tant Episcopal Church NM, 4304 Carlisle Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87107, Tract A-1 Spiritual Re-newal Center, Book/Page 2011011382, 02/01/11.

Vantage Builders Inc. to Sapphire LLC, 4131 Barbara Loop S.E., Rio Rancho 87124, Lot 5-P1 Block 16 Saltillo, Book/Page 2011011522, 02/01/11.

Timberglen Partners LLC to Cottonwood North Group LLC, 8281 Commonwealth Ave., Buena Park, Calif. 90621, Tract 110-A-2 Map 24 MRGCD, Book/Page 2011011571, 02/01/11.

Osuna Land Partners LLC to Maestas and Suggett PC, 316 Osuna Road N.W. Unit 101, Albu-querque 87107, Unit 101 Sun Valley Offi ce Con-dominiums, $544,050, Book/Page 2011011630, 02/02/11. (mortgage)

Janece Johnson to A.J. Yarbrough Realty Inc., (no address shown), Lot 27 Block 33-D Princess Jeanne Park, Book/Page 2011011713, 02/02/11.

Dustrol Inc. to Barr Av-enue Partnership LLC, (no address shown), Lots 5/6 Barr Industrial Park, Book/Page 2011012055, 02/02/11.

Matthew and Tracy Ayers to SEB Proper-ties LLC, 5500 San Mateo Blvd. N.E. No. 114, Albuquerque 87109, Lot 33-P1 Block 20 Willow Wood, Book/Page 2011012261, 02/03/11.

Matt and Tracy Ayers to SEB Properties LLC, 5500 San Mateo Blvd. N.E. No. 114, Albu-querque 87109, Lot 10 Block 4 J.E. Brown’s Subdivision, Book/Page 2011012263, 02/03/11.

Ellen Yee and Pierre Lanthiez to APE-E LLC, 1905 Morningside Drive N.E., Albuquerque 87110, Lot 11 Block 25-B O’Sullivan’s, Book/Page 2011012313, 02/03/11.

PHP Investments LLC to Allen Family Invest-ments 2 LLC, 1717 Louisiana Blvd. N.E. No. 111, Albuquerque 87110, Lot 15 Trotter Addition, Book/Page 2011012665, 02/04/11.

Sandoval County

Enchantment Land Certifi ed Development Co. to U.S. Small Busi-ness Administration, 625 Silver Ave. S.W., Albuquerque 87102, Tract F-1C Unit 16, Book/Page 41403464, 02/03/11.

FEDERAL TAX LIENS

Sandoval County

Dawn Davide, 1400 35th Circle S.E., Rio Rancho 87124, $201,636, (6672), Book/Page 41403257, 02/01/11.

Armstrong General Contractors Inc., P.O. Box 15425, Rio Rancho 87174, $24,730, (6721), Book/Page 41403258, 02/01/11.

Day & Night Protec-tion Agency/Timothy J. Brady Gen. Ptr., 6512 Honduras Road N.E., Rio Rancho 87144, $14,359, (941), Book/Page 41403259, 02/01/11.

MECHANICS’ LIENS

Bernalillo County

Claimant: Sunstate Equipment Co. LLC, Contractor: Atlas Texas Constructon & Tra., $16,858, Owner: CSPS Fourth Street LLC, on property at 4012 Fourth St. N.W., Albuquerque 87107-3551, Book/Page 2011009783, 01/27/11.

Sandoval County

Claimant: Ferguson Enterprises Inc., Con-tractor: Sands Construc-tion LLC and Sunshine Plumbing & Heating Inc., $37,015, Owner: Valley View Offi ce Park LLC, on property at 4311 Sara Road S.E., Rio Rancho 87124, Book/Page 41403331, 02/01/11.

TRANSCRIPTS OF JUDGMENT

Santa Fe County

Paul and Meredith Brown vs. Silviano San-chez dba ABC Roofi ng Specialists, $12,640, plaintiff, case #CV2005-00091, 12/20/10.

Paul and Meredith Brown vs. Rick Boice aka Frederick Sander Boice dba Rick Boice Construction, $785,059, plaintiff, case #CV2005-00091, 12/20/10.

NEW CIVIL LAWSUITS

Bernalillo County

Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. Household Realty Corp./Benny G. Chavez/Rosemary M. Lopez et al., miscel-laneous real estate, case #CV 11 1067, 01/25/11.

Arturo Hernandez vs. Metropolitan Property/Richard E. Martinez, tort-personal injury auto/other damages, case #CV 11 1094, 01/26/11.

H.L. Chapman Pipeline Construction Inc. vs. Longford Homes of NM Inc./Longford Group Inc./Cantata at the Trails Inc., breach of contract, case #CV 11 1125, 01/26/11.

WealthInsiderAlliance.com Inc. vs. Bank of America, miscellaneous other, case #CV 11 1140, 01/27/11.

Debbie Ariaz vs. Wal-Mart Inc./David Villa/Stanley Black & Decker Inc., tort-personal injury non-auto, case #CV 11 1156, 01/27/11.

Jose A. Aguirre vs. Summit Services of Nevada Ltd./Eric Yazzie/Terry Silva et al., miscellaneous/other damages, case #CV 11 1158, 01/27/11.

Annette Arrigoni vs. Berger Briggs Real Estate Insurance Inc./John Menicucci/Frederic Brennan et al., contract wrongful termina-tion/other damages, case #CV 11 1168, 01/27/11.

Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. J&C Enter-prises/NM Workforce Security/Tony Gonzalez Jr. et al., other dam-ages, case #CV 11 1173, 01/27/11.

Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. Franklin Capital Corp./Martin R. Gutier-rez/Belinda Gutierrez et al., other damages,

case #CV 11 1174, 01/27/11.

Brian Cassutt vs. Con-solidated Solar Tech LLC/Mike Mattioli/Jerry Mosher et al., debt and money due, case #CV 11 1177, 01/27/11.

Benefi cial Financial I Inc. vs. Cloud Beaver North, debt and money due, case #CV 11 1200, 01/28/11.

Debbie Kraus (personal representative) vs. Jamboree Management Associates LLC, wrong-ful death non-auto/tort-personal injury non-auto, case #CV 11 1206, 01/28/11.

Sarah Poutsch vs. USAA Casualty Insur-ance Co., breach of contract, case #CV 11 1210, 01/28/11.

Jones Surplus Barn Inc./Francis Kibinsky vs. Payment Systems/Alex Campbell/Azura Leasing et al., contract miscellaneous/other dam-ages, case #CV 11 1216, 01/28/11.

Ray Mechenbier vs. Eastridge Plaza LLC/Tom Fleming/Susan Thompson et al., diss. partnership joint venture/miscellaneous, case #CV 11 1217, 01/28/11.

Hub Acquisition Trust vs. Family Law Firm PC, landlord tenant, case #CV 11 1220, 01/28/11.

Lisa Juarez vs. Board of Regents UNM/UNM Medical Group Inc., de-claratory relief, case #CV 11 1243, 01/31/11.

Edward Kirkwood vs. W Silver Inc., other dam-ages, case #CV 11 1270, 01/31/11.

Lorenzo Mora vs. R. Ca-sias Trucking LLC/Rich-ard J. Sandoval/Rich-ard Casias, tort-personal injury auto, case #CV 11 1282, 01/31/11.

Lawrence Jaramillo/Greg Chavez/To-mas Rivera et al. vs. American Federation of State County Municipal Employees/city of Al-buquerque et al., breach of contract, case #CV 11 1283, 01/31/11.

Uptown Blvd. Operat-ing Associates LP vs. Lincoln Strategy Group LLC, miscellaneous/breach of contract, case #CV 11 1287, 02/03/11.

Rob Robles Co. Inc. vs. Las Posadas Industries LLC/Benny Posada, debt and money due, case #CV 11 1289, 02/03/11.

Madeline Sandoval vs. Lovelace Health System Inc./AHS Albuquerque Holdings LLC/AHS Albuquer-que Regional Medical Center LLC, tort-personal injury non-auto, case #CV 11 1296, 02/03/11.

Amalgamated Bank vs. Workers Realty Trust II LP, declaratory relief, case #CV 11 1312, 02/03/11.

James Saiz vs. Board of Regents UNM, miscel-laneous other, case #CV

11 1340, 02/03/11.

Daniel Burnham vs. Smith’s Food & Drug Centers Inc., tort-per-sonal injury non-auto, case #CV 11 1342, 02/04/11.

Farm Bureau Mutual In-surance Co. vs. Lynn T. Fluhman dba Fluhman Builders LLC, tort-proper-ty damage auto/subroga-tion, case #CV 11 1343, 02/04/11.

Gerald E. Vallejos vs. Lovelace Medical Center/Carmen Smith-Salazar/Josephine Gorospe et al., miscel-laneous, case #CV 11 1355, 02/04/11.

Santa Fe County

Sandra J. East vs. Michael K. Garey MD/Quantum Healthcare Medical Association Inc./Otero County Hospital Association, wrongful death non-auto, case #CV 11 353, 01/28/11.

Timothy Sadlo vs. Smith’s Food & Drug Centers Inc., debt and money due, case #CV 11 370, 01/28/11.

Elicia Montoya vs. Mark Leatherwood MD/Raquel Neeley MD/Enrique R. Marti-nez MD et al., medical malpractice, case #CV 11 375, 01/28/11.

Allis Pilar Deines vs.

National General As-surance Co./GMAC Insurance Co., tort-mis-cellaneous, case #CV 11 388, 02/01/11.

Terry Reilly vs. Sears Holding Co., fair labor standards act, case #CV 11 393, 02/01/11.

Ashley Thomas Col-lard/Jeffrey Thomas (deceased) vs. Mit-subishi Motors North America Inc./Thrifty Car Sales Gilbert/Christo-pher Choate, tort-per-sonal injury, case #CV 11 402, 02/03/11.

Bernice Silversmith/Paul F. Abrams vs. McDonald’s USA LLC/Farmington Hamburger Co. Inc./Jobec Inc. et al., tort-personal injury non-auto, case #CV 11 404, 02/03/11.

Lydia Rael/Estate of Tessie Cordova (deceased) vs. Timothy Wetherill MD/Bruce Shaffer MD/Nelson Miles MD et al., medical malpractice, case #CV 11 409, 02/03/11.

Michelle Mary No-len/Larry Nolen vs. Edwards Law Firm PA/Marc W. Edwards, legal malpractice, case #CV 11 431, 02/03/11.

State of New Mexico ex rel./Department of Public Safety/Regina Chacon vs. The Rio Grande Sun/Bach & Garcia LLC, declaratory relief, case #CV 11 432,

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BUILDING PERMITS -

COMMERCIAL

City of Santa Fe

AAA Roofi ng Co., com-mercial alteration at 241 Washington Ave., (reroof), $69,376, 12/29/10.

BUILDING PERMITS -

RESIDENTIAL

City of Santa Fe

Centex Construction of NM, single-family residence at 3117 Primo Colores St., $92,875, 12/20/10.

Centex Construction of NM, single-family residence at 4232 Luz De Estrella, $274,412, 12/20/10.

Centex Construction of NM, single-family residence at 4241 En-trada Sonata, $118,176, 12/20/10.

Constructive Assets, single-family residence alteration at 756 Calle Altamira, (remodel), $100,000, 12/29/10.

Daniels Construc-tion LLC, single-fam-ily residence addition at 1424 Don Gaspar Ave., (raise ceiling), $50,000, 12/22/10.

House Max LLC, single-family residence addition at 713 1/2 Canyon Road, (garage and fi ve rooms), $260,587, 12/21/10.

Tierra De Zia Construc-tion Inc., single-fam-ily residence addition at 2957 Aspen View No. A, (guest house), $100,000, 12/22/10.

NEW BUSINESS LICENSES

City of Albuquerque

Stallard Accounting Services LLC, 4716 Mountain Road N.E., Albuquerque 87110, ac-counting.

SP and Associate PC, 4901 Cumberland Road N.W., Albuquer-que 87120, accounting services.

Freedom Auto Sales, 11421 Central Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87123, auto sales.

SNA Auto Body Shop, 112 General Arnold St. N.E., Albuquerque 87123, body frame and mechanic.

Welch’s Boiler Services Inc., 6060 Isleta Blvd. S.W., Albuquerque 87105, boiler.

RT66 Enterprises, 2104 Madeira Drive N.E., Albuquerque 87110, cab driver.

La Dona Dulces, 1803 Tapia Blvd. S.W., Albu-querque 87105, candy.

Certifi ed Carpet Care, 9912 Samar Road N.E., Albuquerque 87122, carpet cleaning.

A and G Field Assets Services LLC, 1740 Rusty Road N.W., Albu-querque 87114, cleaning properties.

Computer Up, 4301 Carlisle Blvd. N.E. Suite A-3, Albuquerque 87107, computer repair.

Norse Builders, 4548 Silver Arrow Drive N.W., Albuquerque 87114, construction.

DCAA Compliance, 2637 Granite Ave. N.W., Albuquerque 87104, consulting.

El Tecolote Consulting LLC, 4609 Sherwood St. N.E., Albuquerque 87109, consulting.

Nelco Construction LLC, 6007 Osuna Road N.E., Albuquerque 87109, contractor.

Robert Cohen Co. LLC, 11408 Fairington Way N.E., Albuquerque 87111, contractor.

CVV LLC, 9320 Coors Blvd. N.W., Albuquerque 87114, convenience store.

Martha Grant Counsel-ing Services, 1208 Candelaria Road N.W. Apt. E-2, Albuquerque 87107, counseling.

Christine Louise Ross, 9636 Mendoza Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87109, counseling.

Silvie Goldmark De-sign, 1535 Pearl Loop, Bosque Farms 87068, crafts.

Southwest Express LLC, 6760 Conrad Ave. N.W., Albuquerque 87120, delivery.

Bill Wolfe DDS PA, 10409 Montgomery Park-way N.E., Albuquerque 87111, dental service.

Jennifer Herrera, 2934 Bright Star Drive N.W., Al-buquerque 87120, dietet-ics outpatient services.

Adelante Document Imaging Services, 4906 Jefferson St. N.E. Suite A, Albuquerque 87109, document imaging.

Watt Ever Electric, 31 Robert Drive, McIntosh 87032, electrical.

Helix Electric, 3078 E. Sunset Road Suite 9, Las Vegas, Nev. 89120, electrical construction.

PSG Embroidery, 5419 White Reserve Ave. S.W., Albuquerque 87105, embroidery t-shirts.

Jordan Engineering LLC, 6325 Belcher Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87109, engineering.

Simple Elegance LLC, 9301 Indian School Road N.E., Albuquerque 87110, esthetician waxing facial.

Chaveleux LLC, 136-D Washington St. S.E., Al-buquerque 87121, event center.

Catered Table Events, 8716 Winter Sage Road S.W., Albuquerque 87121, event planning food services.

941 Events, 1500 Allegro Way N.W., Albuquerque 87104, event promotions.

Octopus and the Fox LLC, 514 Central Ave. S.E., Albuquerque 87102, fashion and gifts.

Wings Gone Wild, 101 98th St. S.W., Albuquer-que 87121, fast food.

Pizza 9, 8001 Wyoming Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87113, food establish-ment.

Brothers Inc. dba Nice N’ Fresh, 8205 Zuni Road S.E., Albuquerque 87108, food service.

Fresh Catering Co., 1615 La Mancha Lane, Bosque Farms 87068, food trailer.

Makeup Mavin, 10817 Kielich Ave. N.E., Albu-querque 87111, freelance makeup artist.

Mariachi Tierra Encan-tada, 916 Hermosa Drive N.E., Albuquerque 87110, freelance musician.

Calientes Restaurant LLC, 1930 Juan Tabo Blvd. N.E. Suite H, Albuquerque 87112, full service restaurant.

5 Star Fundraising LLC, 7416 Longview Drive N.W., Albuquerque 87120, fundraising.

Corner Store 1251, 10801 Unser Blvd. N.W., Albuquerque 87114, gas station.

Heritage Care, 11017 Phoenix Ave. N.E., Albu-querque 87112, gravesite care service.

Central Outlet, 10000 Coors Blvd. N.W., Albu-querque 87114, grocery.

Trinity Divine Hair Stu-dio, 5636 Osuna Road N.E., Albuquerque 87109, hair salon.

Hairstyles by Katie, 4906 Mescalero Road N.E., Albuquerque 87110, hairstyling.

Lauren Bubbico, 10724 Flagstone Place N.W., Albuquerque 87114, hairstyling and coloring.

Portia Cline, 6447 Duero Place N.W., Albuquerque 87114, hairstylist.

Mary’s Busy Body Cleaning Service, 9310 Vista Clara Loop N.W., Al-buquerque 87114, house cleaning.

Page’s Cleaning Service, 4301 Rocky Road S.W., Albuquerque 87121, house cleaning.

Carmen Munoz, 4520 Grace Vigil Road S.W., Albuquerque 87121, housekeeping.

Triple T Excavating, 2389 Del Ross Lane, Santa Fe 87507, installa-tion solar system.

Speedy Loan, 6300 San Mateo Blvd., Albuquerque 87109, installment loans.

TMI Enterprises LLC, 417 Hermosa Drive N.E., Albuquerque 87108, Inter-net and phone sales.

Suzi Stark Jazzercise, 7905 Sierra Altos Place N.W., Albuquerque 87114, Jazzercise instruc-tor.

John Harris, 13704 Pino Ridge Place N.E., Albu-querque 87111, laborer.

Cornerstone Land-scape, 852 Entrada Drive, Los Lunas 87031,

landscapes.

Albuquerque Green-scapes LLC, 2326 Don Andres Road S.W., Albuquerque 87105, landscaping.

Khayoumi Law Firm, 2222 Uptown Loop Road N.E. No. 7304, Albuquer-que 87110, legal services.

GT Maintenance Co., 3000 Aztec Road Suite 220, Albuquerque 87107, maintenance.

Penny Design, 302 San-dia Road N.W., Albuquer-que 87107, marketing.

House of Zen, 3415 Carlisle Blvd. N.E., Albu-querque 87110, massage therapy.

Dancing Hearts Mas-sage, 8901 Jefferson St. N.E. Apt. 1022, Albu-querque 87113, massage therapy.

Media Designs, 1312 Constitution Court N.E., Albuquerque 87112, media design.

505 Media Group, 4301 Hillspire Ave. N.W., Albu-querque 87120, media production.

Rock the 9, 413 Vassar Drive S.E., Albuquerque 87106, native music performance.

Community Pathways, 1437 Adams Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87110, nonprofi t consulting.

Jessika Brown, 7109 Bloodstone Road N.E., Albuquerque 87113, nutri-tion services.

Clever 2 Classic LLC, 4020 Comanche Road N.E., Albuquerque 87110, online market.

American Pet Spa, 11701 Menaul Blvd. N.E. Suite C, Albuquerque 87112, pet grooming.

Can I Be With You Pet Sitting, 5328 Montgom-ery Blvd. N.E. Apt. 5105, Albuquerque 87109, pet sitting.

Droolicious, 704 Ozark St. S.E., Albuquerque 87123, pet treats.

Lemas Photography, 401 Humbolt St. S.E., Albuquerque 87123, photography.

Central Plumbing, 10420 Griffon Drive N.W., Albuquerque 87114, plumbing.

RPM Plumbing and Heating, 6341 Jaguar Drive S., Santa Fe 87507, plumbing and gas work.

Enchantment Plumbing LLC, 3849 Riverview Road N.W., Albuquer-que 87105, plumbing contractor.

Burgos Group LLC, 4700 Lincoln Road N.E., Albuquerque 87109, professional services.

Caruso Realty LLC, 9998 Montgomery Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87111, real estate.

Sushi Dragon, 110 Louisiana Blvd. S.E., Albuquerque 87108, restaurant.

Boston Market No. 554, 5640 Wyoming Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87109, restaurant.

Boston Market No. 2588, 5010 Cutler Ave.

N.E., Albuquerque 87110, restaurant.

Boston Market No. 447, 340 Eubank Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87123, restaurant.

Izzy Martin Ltd., 2300 Buena Vista Drive S.E. Suite 122, Albuquerque 87106, retail.

Red Feather LLC, 303 Romero St. N.W., Albuquerque 87104, retail cosmetics.

Memories LLC, 121 Romero St. N.W., Albu-querque 87104, retail jewelry.

Best Smokes LLC, 6901 Zuni Road S.E., Albuquer-que 87108, retail store.

Crossan Enterprises LLC, 3600 Old Airport Road N.W., Albuquerque 87114, sale/servicing appliances.

Cellairis, 10000 Coors Bypass Blvd. N.W. Suite 1413, Albuquerque 87114, sales of cell ac-cessories.

On Set Hair Studio, 1303 Rio Grande Blvd. N.W. Suite 6, Albuquer-que 87104, salon.

Command Post Pro-ductions, 8835 Pico La Cueva Road N.E., Albuquerque 87122, self-publishing.

Amera Mall, 9308 Menaul Blvd. N.E., Albu-querque 87112, sewing.

The Forest Cafe’, 11024 Fort Point Lane N.E. Unit B, Albuquerque 87123, snack vending.

Trilingual Interpreting Services, 3740 Big Bend St. N.E., Albuquerque

87111, social service interpretation.

Diver Solar LLC, 1112 Monte Largo Drive N.E., Albuquerque 87123, solar engineering consultation.

Cheap Chucks, 5600 McLeod Ave. N.E. Suite W, Albuquerque 87109, specialty tobacco store.

Anywhere Taxi, 7548 Northridge Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87109, taxi driver.

Josef’s Towing LLC, 813 Pawnee St. N.E., Albu-querque 87123, towing services.

Need a Lift, 8201 Trumbull Ave. S.E., Albuquerque 87108, transportation.

Pavlus Travel and Cruise Inc., 2033 Wyoming Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87112, travel agency.

Milagro Trucking, 2031 Metzgar Road S.W., Albu-querque 87105, trucking.

101 Trucking, 713 Shir-ley St. N.E., Albuquerque 87123, trucking.

Lone Wolf Enterprises, 121 Carlito Road N.W., Albuquerque 87107, vend-ing candy machine.

UTA, 7600 Central Ave. S.E. Unit 3, Albuquerque 87108, wholesale to fundraising.

Page Brake Ware-house Southwest Inc., 1600 Second St. N.W., Albuquerque 87102, wholesale truck parts.

Window and Floor Fashions LLC, 10248 S. Highway 14, Tijeras 87059, window and fl oor

covering.

Globalization Work-shop, 6240-B Indian School Road N.E. Box 7 Post 17 Apt. B-111, Albuquerque 87110, workshop.

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My Father’s House of Albuquerque, 908 Tijeras Ave. N.W., Albuquerque 87102, a residence for men in recovery, 12/30/10.

First Cornerstone Inc., 411 Third St. S.W., Albu-querque 87102, accept contributions, 12/29/10.

F3 Livestock LLC, 4870 Dona Ana Road, Las Cru-ces 88007, agricultural-livestock, 12/30/10.

Ayer Auto Equipment Service Inc., 7012 Tree Line Ave. N.W., Albuquer-que 87114, auto equip-ment repair, 12/29/10.

D’Oro Enterprises Inc., 110 Delgado St. Build-ing B, Santa Fe 87501, beauty/hair & health solu-tions, 12/29/10.

Los Jardines Institute, 1112 San Pedro Drive N.E. No. 189, Albuquer-que 87110, charitable & educational, 12/28/10.

New Mexico Land Grant & Acequia Resource Center, 1500 Sunset Farm Road S.W., Albu-querque 87105, charitable educational scientifi c, 12/28/10.

Feed My Genius, 500 Fourth St. N.W. Suite

1000, Albuquerque 87102, charitable/scientif-ic & educational purposes, 12/30/10.

Felines & Friends New Mexico, 369 Montezuma Ave. No. 320, Santa Fe 87501, companion animal rescue & placement, 12/29/10.

CRS Framing Inc., 2716 Garner Road S.W., Albuquerque 87105, con-struction, 12/29/10.

GARRHS Inc., 4411 McLeod Road N.E. Suite B, Albuquerque 87109, construction, 12/29/10.

Bormon Construction Inc., 6429 Magdalena Road, Rio Rancho 87144, construction, 12/29/10.

First Choice Eq-uity Builders Inc., 1020 Lomas Blvd. N.W. Suite 6, Albuquerque 87102, construction/general contracting/real estate brokerage, 12/29/10.

Best Contracting Ser-vices Inc., 123 E. Marcy St., Santa Fe 87501, contracting, 12/29/10.

Bowers and Oki Fam-ily Dentistry PC, 8401 Osuna Road N.E. Suite E, Albuquerque 87111, dentistry, 12/29/10.

Northern New Mexico Association of Health Underwriters, 1421 Luisa St. Suite G, Santa Fe 87505, disability & health risk management, 12/27/10.

Coalition to Stop 30 Billion to Israel, 1011 Ortega Road N.W., Albuquerque 87114, education, 12/30/10.

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Deputy Farms Inc., 10721 Highway 28, Chamberino 88027, farm-ing fi eld crops, 12/29/10.

Absolute Fire Protec-tion Inc., 1705 S. Locust St., Las Cruces 88001, fi re safety equipment, 12/29/10.

Voir Dire, 10512 Constitution Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87112, for the production of medi-cal cannabis & holistic, 12/27/10.

The Q Kids Foundation, 8100 Barstow St. N.E. Apt. 22102, Albuquerque 87122, fundraise money for children’s charities, 12/27/10.

Angelone Builders LLC, 4411 McLeod Road N.E. Suite B, Albuquerque 87109, general contrac-tors, 12/29/10.

Barnsley Construction LLC, 6309 Wilmington N.E., Albuquerque 87111, general contractors, 12/28/10.

Birio Systems Inc., 2410 Midtown Place N.E. Suite D, Albuquerque 87107, hardware instru-mentation design/devel-opment/manufacturing, 12/29/10.

Autumn Breeze As-sisted Living Homes LLC, 2739 Foothill Drive S.W., Albuquerque 87105, health services, 12/30/10.

High Desert Radiog-raphy LLC, 4900 Lang Ave. N.E. Suite 202, Al-buquerque 87109, health services, 12/27/10.

Aaahh Chirospa LLC, 2900 Louisiana Blvd. N.E. North Building No. I-2, Al-buquerque 87110, health services, 12/30/10.

JW Medical LLC, 2901 Monument Road N.W., Al-buquerque 87120, health services, 12/30/10.

Sandia Resorts Inc., 5601 Alameda Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87113, hotel/motel operation, 12/23/10.

A.M. Levin Insurance Associates Inc., 929 Placita Chaco, Santa Fe 87502, insurance sales, 12/29/10.

Thomson Law Offi ce LLC, 263 Stabb St., Santa Fe 87501, legal services, 12/28/10.

South West Emergency Physicians Medical Group PC, 2201 San Pedro Blvd. N.E. Building 2 No. 207, Albuquerque 87110, medical services, 12/30/10.

Rancho Del Coyote Ho-meowners Association LLC, 2810 Calle De Pom-peii, Las Cruces 88007, membership organizations, 12/27/10.

A Mission in Miracles, 2112 S. Ensenada Circle S.E., Rio Rancho 87124, ministry, 12/30/10.

Memories LLC, 320 Gold Ave. S.W. Suite 610, Albuquerque 87102, non-classifi able, 12/28/10.

James Teller LLC (SM), 3115 Los Anayas Road N.W., Albuquerque 87104, nonclassifi able, 12/28/10.

Odor and Out LLC, 1208 12th St. N.W., Albuquer-que 87104, nonclassifi -able, 12/27/10.

Firestar Enterprises LLC, 4900 Lang Ave. N.E. Suite 202, Albuquerque 87109, nonclassifi able, 12/30/10.

401 San Pedro LLC, 4155 Montgomery Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87109, nonclassifi able, 12/28/10.

PFNMC LLC, 7317 Freedom Court N.E., Albuquerque 87109, non-classifi able, 12/29/10.

Chicago/Woodman Art Enterprises LLC, 6565 Americas Parkway N.E. Suite 1000, Albuquerque 87110, nonclassifi able, 12/30/10.

Two & Three LLC, 2632 Mesilla St. N.E., Albuquer-que 87110, nonclassifi -able, 12/29/10.

Del Sol NM LLC, 13708 Elena Gallegos Place N.E., Albuquerque 87111, nonclassifi able, 12/29/10.

Tabitha T Enterprises LLC, 10611 Fourth St. N.W., Albuquerque 87114, nonclassifi able, 12/29/10.

BPG Enterprises LLC, 4824 Benton Ave. N.W., Albuquerque 87114, non-classifi able, 12/29/10.

Archangel Capital LLC, 8515 Waterford Place N.E., Albuquerque 87122, nonclassifi able, 12/29/10.

Maxdale LLC, 803 Tramway Lane N.E., Albu-querque 87122, nonclas-sifi able, 12/29/10.

AK High Desert Enter-prises LLC, 1536 13th Ave. S.E., Rio Rancho 87124, nonclassifi able, 12/27/10.

Peace of Mind LLC, 2003 Southern Blvd. S.E. Suite 102, Rio Rancho 87124, nonclassifi able, 12/27/10.

TMAC Clovis LLC, 141 E. Palace Ave., Santa Fe 87501, nonclassifi able, 12/29/10.

Deming Capital LLC, 223 N. Guadalupe St. Suite 429, Santa Fe 87501, nonclassifi able, 12/28/10.

Kirk/Teme LLC, 2009 Botulph Road Suite 400, Santa Fe 87505, nonclas-sifi able, 12/29/10.

Stuart Smith Enter-prises LLC, 1909 River Court, Las Cruces 88007, nonclassifi able, 12/29/10.

Milagro Farm & Field LLC, 1014 S. Highway 28, Chamberino 88027, nonclassifi able, 12/27/10.

Eco Home Store Inc., 16 Calle Alta, Tijeras 87059, online business ships products to custom-ers, 12/29/10.

Delta Consulting Group Inc., 227 E. Palace Ave. Suite F, Santa Fe 87501, organizational/management consulting, 12/27/10.

Go Transport Deliv-ery Inc., 2220 Entrada Del Sol, Las Cruces 88001, package delivery, 12/29/10.

C. Sierra Delivery Inc., 2220 Entrada Del Sol, Las Cruces 88001, package delivery, 12/29/10.

Fonzy’s Barber Shop Inc., 7 Martha Lane, Peralta 87042, personal barber service, 12/30/10.

Justin Nylund DDS PC, 123 E. Marcy St., Santa Fe 87501, practice of dentistry, 12/23/10.

Rio Grande Consulting Group LLC, 6315 Duero Place N.W., Albuquerque 87114, professional-con-sultants/public relations/management, 12/27/10.

Essential Energy Con-sulting LLC, 1323 Casa Florida Place, Albuquer-que 87120, profes-sional-consultants/public relations/management, 12/27/10.

Pyxis Environmental Research LLC, 6109 Rancho Del Rey Road N.E., Albuquerque 87113, professional-engineering, 12/29/10.

Technology Educa-tion Allowing Children Hope, 1232 Zena Lona St. N.E., Albuquerque 87112, provide classroom technology, 12/27/10.

A Well for Health Inc., 1530 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe 87506, provide medical care & health education, 12/29/10.

Foundation for Educational Success Inc., 10209 Sandy Ridge Road, Albuquer-que 87121, providing services to public schools, 12/23/10.

Reps Broker Services Inc., 11017 Greenview N.E., Albuquerque 87111, real estate, 12/29/10.

Watermelon Land Resources LLC, 8 Sandy Lane, Placitas 87043, real estate-agents/appraisers/property management/title companies, 12/27/10.

Four Hills Property LLC, 2929 Coors Blvd. N.W. Suite 301-I, Albuquerque 87120, real estate-agents/appraisers/property man-agement/title companies, 12/29/10.

La Meda Properties LLC, 1533 Saint Francis Drive, Santa Fe 87505, real estate-agents/apprais-ers/property management/title companies, 12/29/10.

JER Properties LLC, 2281 Laguna Drive, Las Cruces 88005, real estate-agents/appraisers/property management/title companies, 12/30/10.

Agua Fria Holdings LLC, 1533 Saint Francis Drive, Santa Fe 87505, real estate-investment trusts, 12/27/10.

Manufacturers Applied Renovation Systems Inc., 7800-A Phoenix Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87110, refurbish bleachers, 12/29/10.

Volvo Construction Equipment Rents Inc., 123 E. Marcy St., Santa Fe 87501, rental of construction equipment, 12/29/10.

Insulite Skylights LLC, 4908 Alameda Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque 87113, retail-construction materials/lawn and garden supplies, 12/27/10.

Wife of a Chef Catering LLC-El Pan Bakery, 1524 Corriz Drive S.W., Albuquerque 87121, retail-food, 12/29/10.

Stuff From Huff LLC, 6427 Belcher Court N.E., Albuquerque 87109, retail-miscellaneous, 12/27/10.

KL Creations LLC, 5333 Canada Vista Place N.W., Albuquerque 87120, retail-miscellaneous, 12/29/10.

Planet Fireworks LLC, 1001 Lohman Ave., Las Cruces 88001, retail-mis-cellaneous, 12/28/10.

Sierra Trophies & Sports Outlet Inc., 2105 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe 87505, screen printing/embroidery/athletic goods, 12/27/10.

Focused Energy LLC, 7309 Indian School Road N.E., Albuquerque 87110, service, 12/29/10.

Kross Entertainment LLC, 7435 Carriveau Ave. N.E., Albuquerque 87110, service-entertainment, 12/30/10.

Knight Hawk Pest Con-trol LLC, 7704 Ridgeview Drive N.W., Albuquerque 87120, service-janitorial/pest control, 12/27/10.

Personalized Pilates LLC, 1228 Desert Paintbrush Loop N.E., Rio Rancho 87144, service-personal, 12/30/10.

Eldorado Yoga Center LLC, 7 Caliente Road No. A-5, Santa Fe 87508, ser-vice-personal, 12/28/10.

The Skyline Salon LLC, 1041 W. Don Diego Ave., Santa Fe 87505, service-salon, 12/29/10.

Videotero LLC, 3167 San Mateo Blvd. N.E. No. 232, Albuquerque 87110, service-video produc-tion and rentals/theaters, 12/29/10.

Radius Films LLC, 1217 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe 87501, service-video production and rentals/theaters, 12/27/10.

Earthmind Media LLC, 3221 La Avenida De San Marcos No. 4, Santa Fe 87507, service-video pro-duction and rentals/the-aters, 12/30/10.

GPK Media LLC, 1747 E. Third St., Truth or Consequences 87901, service-video produc-tion and rentals/theaters, 12/29/10.

TMBP-Click Inc., 1104 Arizona St. Suite 16, Albu-querque 87108, structural engineering consulting, 12/29/10.

New Mexico Surgi-cal Assisting Inc., 1505 Kachina Ridge Drive, Santa Fe 87507, surgical assistant services, 12/29/10.

Southwest Sweeping Services Inc., 1757 Black River Court, Rio Rancho 87144, sweeping parking lots, 12/23/10.

Herca Telecomm Ser-vices Inc., 433 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe 87501, telecommunications, 12/29/10.

Omega Border Logistics LLC, 2085 Futurity Drive, Sunland Park 88063, transporta-tion-trucking/courier, 12/27/10.


New Mexico Industrial Energy Consum-ers.

Still, the commercial user coalition and environmental and consumer groups adamantly oppose the new deal. That foreshadows contentious litigation at the PRC, because 20 parties originally planned to litigate the case last summer, and most of those that didn’t sign the stipulation will now fi ght it.

Paternoster said his group is particu-larly disturbed that the new rate hike pro-posal comes after two increases that have pushed electric bills up by 24 percent since 2008.

“We’re already paying a lot more, and now PNM wants another big hike,” Pa-ternoster said. “It’s a lot of money. The economic impact is huge.”

Like Paternoster, Artichoke Cafe and Farina Pizzeria owner Terry Keene said he pays nearly $7,000 a month for elec-tricity. A new hike will impact his profi t margins.

“We can’t easily raise prices in the res-taurant business,” Keene said. “We ab-sorb a lot of costs that we don’t pass on to consumers, because the economy doesn’t allow it. It’s simple: When PNM rates go up, my overhead goes up.”

Opponents say the proposed rate hike will be much higher than PNM is saying, because the company’s stipulation allows for rate riders on top of the base-rate in-crease.

The 21.2 percent hike proposed in last summer’s fi ling would have generated $165 million in new revenue for PNM, mostly for investments in transmission infrastructure and power plants. At 10.8 percent, the new proposal’s base-rate hike will instead generate $85 million in new revenue.

PNM said in the new agreement that it would not seek more base-rate increases until 2014. But the accord calls for a temporary rate rider in 2013 to generate another $20 million for infrastructure in-vestments. That would raise electric bills that year by 13.37 per-cent, said Steve Michel of environmental group Western Resource Ad-vocates (see Table I, page 1).

PNM’s stipulation also allows additional rate riders for investments in renewable energy and energy effi ciency programs.

“With all that, the impact on consum-ers will be a lot more than 10.8 percent,” Michel said.

Lewis Campbell, attorney for the com-mercial ratepayers coalition, said rate rid-ers are like back door rate hikes.

“It’s improper,” Campbell said. “It’s what we call piecemeal ratemaking.”

PNM says it made substantial conces-sions in this month’s agreement. It low-ered its proposed return on equity from 11.75 percent to 10.25 percent. It agreed to forego recovery of $10 million it spent on fuel purchases, and to discard propos-als to increase asset depreciation rates and change pension accounting meth-odologies, said PNM Vice President for Regulatory Affairs Ron Darnell.

It also adjusted sales projections. The company had assumed last summer that electric consumption would fall below its longtime average of 600 kilowatt hours a month per customer, Darnell said. In-stead, consumption increased to 625 kilowatt hours. That allowed PNM to shave nearly $22 million from its initial request (see Table II).

Peter Gould, general counsel for Indus-trial Energy Consumers, said his group signed the stipulation because of PNM concessions.

“Our revenue analyst examined PNM’s numbers and concluded that a $70 to $75 million rate increase was justifi ed,” Gould said. “PNM also agreed to not seek another rate hike for three years. At that point, we felt we achieved what we might have gotten through litigation, so it was time to settle.”

Attorney Nann Win-ter of Stelzner Winter Warburton, which rep-resents ABCWUA, said an analysis by industry consultant UtiliTech Inc. reached similar conclu-sions.

“I think in the end, the stipulation is in the best interests of consumers,” Winter said.

Still, PNM’s cost of service will be heav-ily litigated in PRC hearings. The commer-cial users’ coalition hired an independent revenue analyst, who concluded that PNM’s numbers don’t justify a rate hike,

said Jimmie Glenn, coali-tion co-chair and presi-dent of the New Mexico Retail Association.

“We believe PNM has provided a mountain of bogus data,” Glenn said.

Some issues, such as using new PNM revenue to invest in coal-fi red

electricity, are drawing environmental-ists’ ire. Environmental groups will op-pose that at the PRC, and at upcoming hearings by the U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency (see related story, page 1).

The closed nature of stipulation negotiations has also complicated matters. The agree-ment’s supporters ham-mered out the accord with little or no input from other groups, and now they want expedited PRC hearings, Michel said: “They’re try-ing to ram this through the PRC.”

But commissioners said hearings will be balanced.

“It’s going to be a toughly litigated case,” said Commissioner Jason Marks.

Commission Chair Patrick Lyons said hearings might even reduce PNM’s rate hike a bit more.

“We have to keep PNM healthy, but we want consumers to pay as little as pos-sible,” Lyons said.


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PNM: Opponents believe rate riders will elevate PNM’s proposed rate hike even higher than what it says


“The EPA proposal on San Juan is just one of a number of environmental re-quirements coming down the line,” Brown said. “The costs of compliance could fundamentally change the eco-nomics of the plant.”

A public hearing is scheduled for Feb. 17 in Farmington on the EPA proposal to bring the plant into compliance with the Clean Air Act’s Regional Haze Rule. The EPA wants to cut NOx emissions by 80 percent, to about 4,000 tons per year.

PNM also could be forced to start cut-ting greenhouse gas emissions at San Juan in 2012 by 2 percent per year under regulations approved by the state Envi-ronmental Improvement Board. PNM is fi ghting those new requirements in the New Mexico Court of Appeals in Santa Fe.

Even if the appeal prevails, PNM will face federal greenhouse gas limits next year, because the EPA plans to propose nationwide standards on global warming pollutants at power plants in July 2011. A fi nal rule is scheduled for May 2012.

And the EPA is prepar-ing new regulations on coal ash, cooling towers, mercury and other air pollutants, said Jeanette Pablo, director of federal affairs and senior climate advisor at PNM.

“The forthcoming reg-ulations are causing a lot concern in the industry nationwide,” Pablo said.

Rule expected by late JuneNOx regulations pose the most immedi-

ate concern, Brown said. The EPA’s public comment period on the San Juan proposal will end March 7. A fi nal rule is expected by late June.

The EPA wants PNM to install selective catalytic reduction controls on all four coal-burning units at San Juan, an 1,800-megawatt facility that, together with the Four Corners Power Plant, supplies about 62 percent of the electricity consumed by PNM’s New Mexico customers.

PNM says SCR technology would cost at least $750 million to install. That’s on

top of $330 million it has invested at San Juan to lower NOx and other emissions.

PNM owns 47 percent of the San Juan plant. It would share SCR costs with other owners, but that would still push electric rates up about 10 percent, or about $82 per year for residential customers, Brown said.

The EPA, however, estimates SCR would cost about $247 million to install at San Juan (see chart, above).

David Van Winkle, energy chair of the Sierra Club’s Rio Grande Chapter, said

PNM is infl ating its estimates.“PNM is needlessly scaring customers

about the cost of cleaning up the air,” Van Winkle said.

But Brown said the EPA applied cookie-cutter models.

“They’ve never visited San Juan,” Brown said. “Not every plant is built the same way.”

If the federal agency’s proposal remains unchanged, PNM might consider alterna-tive energy sources, such as converting the facility to natural gas, Brown said.

“We’d have to decide if the [SCR] in-vestment is prudent, or if there are other things we can do,” Brown said. “We’re looking at all our options.”

A plant shut down would be welcome, said Steve Michel, chief counsel for the environmental group Western Resource Advocates.

“PNM and its partners should be look-ing at exit strategies,” Michel said. “They should look at how reasonably and stra-tegically to retire that plant over time.”


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PUNCH: EPA also is preparing new rules on coal ash, cooling towers, mercury and other air pollutants

Table II – Revenue reductions in PNM’s new proposal, compared with

original rate case fi ling(In millions of dollars)

Original base-rate increase 165.2

Updated load forecast (21.8)

ROE cut from 11.75 % to 10.25 % (19.9)

Maintain existing depreciation rates (9.6)

Maintain existing pension methodology (13.1)

Other negotiated settlements (15.8)

Stipulated base-rate increase 85.0

Rate rider 20.0

Total hike starting Jan. 1, 2012 $105.0Source: PNM

EPA NOx reduction estimates at San Juan power plantTotal investment

(millions of dollars)NOx reducation(tons per year)

Unit 1 $53.23 3,450

Unit 2 55.65 3,433

Unit 3 70.5 5,360

Unit 4 67.2 5,258

Total $246.58 17,501Source: EPA proposed rule for San Juan

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area, said his site coordinator has stepped in occasionally when parents got overheat-ed.

Before he found Gunkel and i9 Sports, Shawn Holland signed his son up for a dif-ferent fl ag football league in Chandler, but the experience was not pleasant.

“We had three practices, and the coach spent the majority of the time yelling at 6-year-olds and being unorganized,” he said.

He called Gunkel, liked what he heard and signed up to coach.

Each week, coaches spend fi ve to 10 minutes talking about a value, Sanders said, such as listening, courtesy or good sportsmanship. Then they watch the kids play, and the one who best exemplifi es that value that week gets a medal.

i9 Sports also stresses equal playing time. That’s really important to parents and kids, Holland said.

“Little boys want fi ve other people to run after them when they have a football in their hand,” he said. “That’s why they have a smile on their face.”

However, they do keep score, Holland added. And even though the prize at the end of the season is just a $5 trophy, many of the players want it.

Franchisees’ revenue comes from reg-istration fees, which are usually $125 to $135 for an eight-week season that in-cludes fl ag football, soccer, basketball and cheerleading. The fee cover uniforms and equipment. While the cost might be a bit more than some leagues, Sanders pointed out that it’s a fl at fee.

“We don’t make kids go out and sell choc-olate and wrapping paper,” Sanders said.

The franchisees schedule practices just before games, to make schedules less hectic for parents and kids.

A typical franchisee pays between

$40,000 and $70,000 to start, and pays a 7.5 percent monthly royalty. They buy their equipment, in most cases, directly from i9 Sports, and pay an additional 1 percent to a brand fund for services such as advertis-ing, which has appeared on ESPN2, CNN and FOX.

i9 Sports’ franchisees run home-based businesses. The company works with franchisees to fi nd venues for the games, such as school playing fi elds, gyms and city parks. Sanders said the company likes Albuquerque because it’s family-oriented and “outdoorsy.” i9’s target demographic is households with incomes of more than $60,000.

At least one of the company’s franchi-sees is bringing in more than $500,000, Sanders said.

Gunkel hasn’t reached that level, but said he’s about halfway there. He has a full-time job, and shares the franchise with a partner. They started in October 2007 and have about 1,000 kids for their winter season.

i9 was named the No. 1 mid-sized fran-chise for 2008 and the No. 1 sports, rec-reation and fi tness franchise for two years in a row by the Franchise Business Review. Entrepreuneur magazine ranked i9 as the No. 1 children’s fi tness franchise, No. 44 among low-cost franchises and No. 61 among home-based franchises in its 2011 franchise rankings. The company was ranked 213th out of 500 franchises na-tionwide by the magazine.

Entrepeneur’s franchise rankings are based on quantifi able measures, according to its website. The most important factors include fi nancial strength and stability, growth rate and size of the company’s sys-tem.


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Simonson said hospitals, power plants, hotels, warehouses and market rate rental housing buildings are the most likely to come out of the ground this year nation-ally. The worst prospects are for new offi ce and shopping center projects, because of high vacancy rates and tight credit.

Simonson’s far ranging statistical basket shed some poor numbers, especially for Albuquerque. Construction jobs dropped 13 percent between December 2009 and Dec. 2010, placing the Duke City 319th out of 337 markets. Santa Fe recorded a 4 percent decline for the same period, while Las Cruces was among the top 20 nation-ally, with a fl at job growth. Las Cruces saw many new school building projects, while the Duke City had scant new buildings rise during the period.

Simonson told the Business Weekly that without major private universities with large endowments, and without big home-grown corporations, New Mexico is espe-cially vulnerable when state and federal budgets are stressed. The federal stimulus programs were helpful to the state, and he applauded the state for acting quickly to

take advantage of that funding.“In the highway area, New Mexico got

its share and made quick awards with that money. It kept some companies afl oat. There was also federal money for base re-alignments that was seen at Kirtland and White Sands, but a lot of that work will be wrapping up and those companies will have to scramble for new work.”

Nationally, Simonson said 2011 is a year of transition as contractors will see less work from the government. The economy has been growing nationally and this will fuel more jobs in selective industries, but the residential housing market will not be one that will likely spark construction job growth in 2011, Simonson predicted.

“Buying a new home has made people wary and there is not clear consumer con-fi dence in home buying,” Simonson said. “The prospects for multi-family housing are better as job growth accelerates. People are getting tired of living with mom and dad, and roommates are getting of sick of each other and are ready to move out and get their own place.”


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Films offer lessons in leadershipTIM BORROR AND STACY SACCO | GUEST OPINION

Managers can learn valuable lessons from many different sources, even Hollywood mov-ies. For example, many MBA operations man-agement courses include the 1949 classic “Twelve O’Clock High” as part of their course curriculum.

Several books also draw on fi lms for their content. Take Becky Pluth’s “101 Movie Clips that Teach & Train.” She describes lessons in change management, team-work and problem-solving based on scenes from “The Muppet Movie,” “Forrest Gump” and “Gladiator,” to name a few.

In fact, several magazines publish lists of the top 10 business movies, with clas-sics such as “Citizen Kane,” “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “The Godfather,” “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Wall Street” typically taking top honors.

An informal discussion after our Profes-sional Selling class at the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management this past year led to an examination of James Cameron’s groundbreaking movie “Avatar.” We were curious if we could identify any lead-ership lessons woven throughout the plot line, especially anything that would be instructive for managers facing today’s tough economy. We found eight.

The fi rst lesson, “start at the bottom,” was exemplifi ed in the scenes where Neytiri taught Jake the hunting rituals of the Pandoran peo-ple. Like Jake, leaders are more effective when they learn their job from the bottom up before taking on additional responsibilities.

The second lesson, “be fl exible,” was dem-onstrated by Jake each time his consciousness was transferred to his Na’vi Avatar body. Simi-larly, leaders need to be open-minded and try new approaches to problem solving.

Jake embodied the third lesson, “be hon-est,” when he confessed the true purpose of his mission to the clan to try to convince them to leave the home tree. Similarly, leaders need

to be forthright with others to be credible and build their trust.

The fourth lesson, “be bold,” was demon-strated by Jake when he called on the help of an unwilling Toruk, one of the most feared creatures on the planet, to get the clan’s at-tention. Great leaders inspire others with their strength and bravery in the face of adversity.

Jake portrayed the fi fth lesson, “empower others,” when he asked the young warrior Tsu’Tey to translate his speech into the Na’vi language. Similarly, leaders need to seek oth-ers’ advice and assistance to solve problems.

The sixth lesson, “lead with vision,” was illustrated in Jake’s war cry to the clan: “The Sky People have sent us a message that they can take whatever they want, and no one can stop them. But we will send them a message … tell the other clans … Toruk Macto calls to them. Fly now with me, brothers and sisters! Fly! And we will show the Sky People that this is our land!” Leaders can inspire others to ac-complish more by sharing a compelling vision for them to follow.

An example of the seventh lesson, “build strong teams,” was shown in the scenes in which the Pandoran creatures answered Jake’s prayers to join in the battle for their col-lective freedom. Effective leaders involve oth-ers and encourage them to take ownership of their part of any project.

Jake demonstrated the fi nal lesson, “seek the greater good,” when he concluded that human greed did not justify the exploitation of Pandora. Great leaders seek value beyond their organization’s short-term, bottom-line results. This includes accommodating the needs of the larger community to sustain it-self over the long haul.

So the next time you are at the theater, you might want to look beyond the movie trailers, special effects and comic pratfalls to fi nd man-agement principles you can use to be a better leader. Nearly every movie seems to have some lessons to draw upon.

TIM BORROR is an MBA student in the UNM Anderson School of Management’s Policy and Planning and Management of Technology Stud-ies program, and STACY SACCO, WESST’s Rio Rancho regional manager, is an adjunct professor at UNM.

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LETTER TO THEeditorFunding for public broadcasting is

at risk. Congress will vote this week on whether to zero out funding for this vi-tal American resource.

This will have a direct impact on our community. The small, but vital percentage of our overall budget that comes from a federal appropriation is what forms the foundation upon which we build our capacity to serve New Mexico with content and services that educate, inform and inspire.

For more than 52 years, KNME has been a valuable community resource in New Mexico, providing education and outreach services, in-depth news and public affairs, lifelong learning and the celebration of arts and culture reach-ing more than 650,000 households each week. Public television is the larg-est provider of preschool education in New Mexico.

KNME’s Ready to Learn Service im-pacts the lives of more than 10,000 children each year, presenting nearly 100 workshops for parents and care-givers, and distributing thousands of books. KNME produces inspiring and informative programs showcasing the beauty, culture and history of New Mexico, with programs such as the award-winning Balloon Fiesta, Paint-ing Taos and KNME’s COLORES! series, which has inspired New Mexicans for more than 20 years.

“New Mexico In Focus,” KNME’s weekly public affairs series, explores issues that matter to New Mexicans. KNME productions have won numer-ous national and regional awards, in-cluding a Peabody Award.

I hope that Congress is listening to the polls that show that Americans rank PBS second only to military defense as an excellent use of their tax dollars. Cutting funding for public broadcast-ing and KNME, which only costs about a dollar a year per person, will do little to balance our national budget. But it will close a lot of doors for people who rely on KNME to provide them with in-spirational, educational programming.

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CORRECTION A Feb. 11 Focus story about economic development at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo should have said that the state of New Mexico provided a total of $3 million in funding for the infrastructure of an airport and industrial park at the pueblo. A federal grant brought another $1 million, and Tsay Corp. put in about $500,000. The Business Weekly regrets the error.

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