<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dear Interested Party </font> </span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Please see the announcement and invite (attached and below) from Dept. of Information Technology (DoIT) Cabinet Secretary Marlin Mackey for a Public Forum to discuss a New Mexico Public Safety Communications Network. Your attendance and participation will be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none; "> </span></o:p></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">MEDIA ADVISORY</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">NEW MEXICO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECRETARY ANNOUNCES PUBLIC FORUM WITH THE FCC TO DISCUSS STATEWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Albuquerque, NM – Marlin Mackey, Secretary of the New Mexico Department of Information Technology (DoIT), today announced the Department will hold a public forum on public safety communications with Rear Admiral (ret.) James Arden Barnett, Jr., Chief of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 15, 2010</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Grand Central meeting room on the Second Floor of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black; ">City Hall, 1 Civic Plaza - 4<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">th</span></font></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Marquette NW</span></b><span style="color: black; ">.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">WHO: Marlin Mackey</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">,<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Secretary, New Mexico Department of Information Technology<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Rear Admiral (ret.) James Arden Barnett, Jr.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">, Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, FCC<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="text-indent: -1in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">WHAT: Public Forum</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">, to highlight New Mexico’s initiative to launch a statewide Public Safety Broadband Network, FCC policies and programs related to the National Broadband Plan, public safety voice communications, including Southwest border issues, national cybersecurity efforts; and other public safety and homeland security issues.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br>WHEN: Monday, November 15, 2010</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">WHERE: Albuquerque City Hall<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Grand Central Conference Room, Second Floor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">1 Civic Plaza (4<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">th</span></font></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Marquette)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Albuquerque, New Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-indent: -1in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">NOTE:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Reporters who plan to attend should contact Deborah Martinez via email:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:deborah.martinez@state.nm.us" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><b>deborah.martinez@state.nm.us</b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">. Reporters should also plan on arriving 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the forum with a photo ID for security purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "></span></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>