Stansbury seeks federal funding for 15 Valencia County projects totaling $158.45M
Stansbury announced a 15-project slate tied to federal community funding, naming several concrete awards and others submitted for appropriations review amid conflicting totals.
1. Middle Rio Grande Pueblos irrigation, $1,000,000
Funding announced will direct $1,000,000 to improve acequia and irrigation infrastructure for the six Middle Rio Grande Pueblos, addressing maintenance, repairs, and upgrades on Pueblo lands. The allocation is described as long‑overdue support for water management on Tribal acreage and appears in KRQE’s project listing tied to Stansbury’s recent community funding actions.
2. Bernalillo wastewater rehabilitation, $1,092,000
A $1,092,000 award was listed to support rehabilitation of the Town of Bernalillo’s aging wastewater treatment plant, intended to extend asset life, protect water supplies and accommodate future growth. KRQE reports that funding for the Bernalillo Wastewater Project was secured in partnership with Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, signaling a multi‑member effort to advance the item.
3. Santa Rosa pipelines (Dog Valley), $1,092,000
KRQE identifies a $1,092,000 allocation for the Santa Rosa Pipelines Project to improve and expand drinking water service in Dog Valley and the City of Santa Rosa. The request targets drinking‑water infrastructure upgrades that local officials have framed as critical to public health and economic resilience in eastern parts of the district.
4. Fort Sumner fire station, $1,000,000
A $1,000,000 line item was listed to support development of a new fire station in Fort Sumner, described in reporting as west of the Pecos River. The funding aims to improve emergency services capacity in the region and reduce response gaps for surrounding rural communities.
5. Valencia County acute care hospital, $1,000,000
KRQE lists $1,000,000 to advance construction of a state‑of‑the‑art acute care hospital in Valencia County, intended to expand access to emergency and inpatient care for county residents. The project is presented as a "critical lifeline" for Valencia County and is one of the specific local health investments named in the roll‑out.
6. Estancia Community Center repairs, $3,300,000 (requested)
Route 66 Independent reports a $3.3 million request to protect the historic Estancia Community Center through planning and capital improvement repairs, saying the center serves as a vital hub for essential services and educational programs. That line item was explicitly named in Route 66’s summary of Stansbury’s submitted slate for the upcoming appropriations cycle.
7. Pueblo of Sandia Early Childhood Education Center, $850,000 (celebrated)
Stansbury’s office celebrated the opening of a new Early Childhood Education Center at the Pueblo of Sandia for which she helped secure $850,000 in federal funding. The center’s funding and opening were highlighted in congressional materials as an example of community project funding already translating into local facilities.
8. Sandoval County Animal Shelter (past project celebrated)
KRQE’s coverage noted the Sandoval County Animal Shelter as one of two previously funded projects Stansbury celebrated during the announcement. The shelter is cited as an example of a completed community project that Stansbury’s office uses to demonstrate prior results from federal community funding.
9. New inclusive park for people with special needs (past project celebrated)
Also cited by KRQE was a recently funded park serving people with special needs, another project Stansbury celebrated as a completed community investment. Local leaders presented that park and the animal shelter as visible outcomes tied to earlier rounds of community project funding.
10. Housing and homelessness programs (one or more of the 15 submissions)
Multiple source summaries state that the 15 projects include housing and homelessness interventions intended to "create stable modern housing and help families experiencing homelessness," language that appears verbatim in Stansbury’s press materials. LaDailyPost’s press text frames housing and homelessness as core objectives for the slate; specifics on line items and local recipients for these housing requests were not enumerated in the public roll‑outs and remain to be confirmed.
11. Public safety and emergency services projects (beyond Fort Sumner)
Reporting across outlets describes public safety as a sector covered by the 15 projects, police, fire and other emergency services were explicitly named in the programmatic framing. Stansbury’s materials say the slate will "deliver increased protection for public safety"; KRQE’s specific Fort Sumner entry is one concrete example, while additional public‑safety line items were described at an aggregate level.
12. Water and wastewater infrastructure projects (additional to named items)
Beyond the Bernalillo and Santa Rosa allocations, sources group water security and wastewater among the slate’s priorities, noting drinking‑water pipelines and wastewater plant rehabilitation as recurring themes. LaDailyPost and KRQE both emphasize water security as an area of need; several additional, unnamed water infrastructure requests were represented in the 15 submissions but not broken out in the summaries available.
13. Tribal housing and Tribal infrastructure requests
Stansbury’s communications link the community project slate to broader tribal housing priorities and to legislation she has advanced, including the Tribal Affordable Housing Act and the Tribal Housing Innovation Act. Her materials reference a proposed $150 million annual authorization for tribal housing as part of the policy framework; tribal projects (including the Middle Rio Grande irrigation item listed here) were explicitly eligible under this year’s submission rules noted in local reporting.
14. Rural development, economic development and environmental protection projects
Route 66’s summary and Stansbury’s press materials both specify that the 15‑project slate addresses rural and economic development and environmental protection alongside health and safety. LaDailyPost frames the package as targeting interlinked challenges, public safety, housing, water security and economic development, though the press materials do not publish a full line‑by‑line list in the texts reprinted by local outlets.
15. Unnamed submitted community projects (items within the 15 pending appropriations)
Both LaDailyPost and Route 66 explicitly state Stansbury selected or submitted 15 community projects, but the two sources report different aggregates and timing: LaDailyPost’s office text lists "15 Congressionally funded community projects, totaling $104,253,714 million, to submit for consideration in the upcoming 2025 budget process," while Route 66 reports "15 ... projects totaling $158,450,000 for the upcoming 2026 budget process." Reporting notes these discrepancies and the need for verification; per LaDailyPost, the selected projects must still clear Appropriations Committees and passage in both chambers before becoming law, a process the office warned "will likely take months" with earliest final consideration in the fall.
Conclusion The publicly available roll‑outs name several concrete local investments, irrigation upgrades for the Middle Rio Grande Pueblos, wastewater and water pipeline projects, a Fort Sumner fire station, a Valencia County acute care hospital, and the Estancia Community Center request, while framing multiple other housing, public safety, tribal, and rural development requests within a 15‑project slate. Sources disagree on the aggregate total and target appropriations cycle ($158.45M vs. the $104.25M figure reported in press materials), and Stansbury’s office has referred some projects to Senators Heinrich and Luján because of House restrictions; the projects now await Appropriations Committee review and congressional passage before funds are finalized.
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