by Danielle Prokop
It’s set to be a full House, after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s announcement Wednesday selecting Martha Garcia, a former Cibola County commissioner and president of the Ramah Chapter House, to fill the vacant seat for House District 6.
The chair, held previously by the late Rep. Eliseo Alcon, has been vacant since his November resignation. Alcon died of liver cancer on Jan. 13.
Elsewhere in the Roundhouse, behavioral health providers and state agencies involved in mental health treatment gathered for Behavioral Health Day.
One of them was Sindy Bolaños-Sacoman, founding director of the New Mexico Tribal Behavioral Health Providers Association, a group of approximately 50 providers from Native nations in New Mexico.
Originally from Guatemala, Bolaños-Sacoman has spent the last 20 years in New Mexico working as an evaluator of state-level health programs.
As Source NM was interviewing Bolaños-Sacoman in a hallway outside the Rotunda on Wednesday morning, Lt. Gov. Howie Morales shook her hand and said, “Thank you again for all the work you’re doing,” before disappearing into a restricted part of the Roundhouse.
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