With a Friday deadline looming for her to act onlegislation passed by the 2013 Legislature, Gov. SusanaMartinez still has scores of bills on her desk, includingthe budget bill (which includes a 1 percent pay raisefor state workers), a bill aimed at closing the deficit inthe state employee pension system and a capital outlaybill that contains millions of dollars worth of projects.

Martinez also has yet to act onthe big tax bill, passed in the finalseconds of the legislative session,which includes a 22 percent tax cutfor corporations — though she hassaid that she will sign it.

As of late Wednesday afternoon,the governor had signed 186 billsand vetoed 14. This leaves 98 billswaiting for her action.

Martinez said the day the sessionended that she would sign HouseBill 2, the $5.8 billion budget bill, eventhough she had some misgivings about the final version.

“I will review the state budget carefully,” she saidat a news conference immediately after the sessionended last month. “I may have some line-item vetoes,but overall, I will sign the state budget.”

Under the state constitution, a governor is allowedto veto appropriations. Chief executives, includingMartinez, rarely are shy about exercising this right.

The bill includes the first pay raise in five yearsfor state employees. But many state employees have

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Four dozen dogs seized as evidencein a case against a former veterinar-ian who faces felony drug chargesmust be kept in the care of the Santa

Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society untilthe case is closed — limiting the shelter’sresources for the unforeseeable future.

The shelter has 58 kennels for lost, aban-doned, relinquished and confiscated dogs.The dogs seized this week from Debra Clop-ton’s home in Edgewood occupy 46 of thekennels now. More than two dozen caninesalready at the shelter had to be moved to twoSanta Fe commercial kennels to make room

for the Edgewood pack.“Holding this number of dogs for two

weeks wouldn’t be a problem,” said shelterDirector Mary Martin. “But 48 dogs that wemight have to hold as evidence for severalmonths? That’s a huge deal. It sends a chilldown our spine about what could happen inthis case.”

Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies arrestedClopton, 48, on two charges of possessionof a controlled substance and possession ofa dangerous drug Tuesday afternoon after aMonday evening search of her property offBest View Trail in Edgewood.

According to a criminal complaint, depu-ties found Clopton in possession of 100 mil-liliters of Euthasol, a solution used in the

euthanasia of animals, and 2 milligrams ofdexamethasone, a potent steroid used as ananimal anti-inflammatory.

Lt. William Pacheco said Clopton wascharged because she was in possession of thedrugs without a current veterinary license.

Clopton had her veterinary license revokedby the New Mexico Board of VeterinaryMedicine in March, after she allegedlyfailed to renew her license, originally issuedin 1991. The board and Executive DirectorFrances Sowers filed a petition for a perma-nent injunction against Clopton, seeking toend what it claims are Clopton’s multipleattempts to practice veterinary medicine

In his formal introduction to players and fans, new University of New Mexico men’sbasketball coach Craig Neal says he’s waited a long time for the opportunity to lead hisown program, but it was worth the wait. “It’s exactly what I was looking for.” SPORTS, B-1

Santa Fe already has a reputation for using lesswater per capita than any other city in the Southwest,but a new report from the city shows more detailsabout residential customers’ con-servation efforts.

The city’s overall water use in2012 was 106 gallons per personper day. When only single-familyhome consumption is considered,however, that number drops to59 gallons per day.

City officials still want more.Water Conservation ProgramManager Laurie Trevizo said thelower number is more accurateand will allow families to tracktheir water use and take deeperconservation measures.

The figures come from a water-use calculator developed by theState Engineer’s Office that helpscities break per-capita water useinto figures that are easier todigest. Instead of including waterused by every car wash, hotel and restaurant in justone per-capita figure, it also calculates just the waterused by residential customers.

“We realize that [the larger number] is not reallyrelatable to our customers, and so we wanted to givethem a number they can work with,” Trevizo said,noting that families can estimate daily water use bytiming showers, counting loads of laundry and dishes,and monitoring other household uses.

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — An Arizona tribeis asking a Paris auction house to cancelits upcoming sale of dozens of items cen-tral to the tribe’s religious practices andreturn them to their original homes in theAmerican Southwest.

Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarroudescribes the collection on its website askatsina masks of the Hopi Indians of Ari-zona. They are scheduled to be auctionedApril 12, with some expected to garnertens of thousands of dollars each.

To the Hopis, they are living beingscalled “katsina friends” that emerge fromthe earth and sky to connect people to

the spiritual world and their ancestors.Every member of the Hopi Tribe getsinitiated into the Katsina society as a riteof passage.

Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, director of thetribe’s cultural preservation office, saidthe religious items have no commercialvalue and should be in the hands of theAmerican Indian tribes from which theywere taken, including the pueblos ofJemez, Acoma and Zuni in New Mexico.The sale of such items isn’t extraordinary,but the size of the collection to be auc-tioned in Paris and the age of the items is,he said.

The majority of the 70 katsina friendsare labeled as Hopi and date back to thelate 19th century and early 20th century.Kuwanwisiwma said they likely werecollected from the Hopi in the 1930s and

98 billsstill awaitgovernor’ssignature

An already full Santa Fe animal shelter is struggling to care for nearly 50 dogs collected Monday from the home of an Edgewoodwoman. A few of the dogs are shown Wednesday at the shelter. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

48 Edgewood dogsput strain on shelter

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Martinez must act on measures,including budget, by Friday deadline

City pushes formore householdwater savingsBy Julie Ann GrimmThe New Mexican

wATERwISEOverall SantaFe water usein 2012:

106gallons perperson per day

Single-familywater use onlyin 2012:

59gallons per day

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Tribe seeks return of masksup for auction in FranceSome labeled from Jemez,Acoma, Zuni pueblosBy Felicia FonsecaThe Associated Press

Animals must remain in Santa Fe facility until case against woman is resolvedBy Staci Matlock and Nico RoeslerThe New Mexican

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