The Taos County Board of Commissioners have a special meeting called tomorrow morning at 9 in commission chambers. They will be taking up budget matters. Following that meeting commissioners will immediately hold a work study session for the mid-year budget review.

Taos is featured prominently in a new exhibit that is now open at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. The display opened on Saturday and is called “100 Years of State & Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations.” One of the key policies examined is The 1970 Return of Taos Pueblo Blue Lake - a congressional action that restored 48,000 acres back to the Taos Pueblo. Of course this exhibit coincides with the 100th birthday of New Mexico as a state.

Taos County will receive more than $500,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help pay for schools, roads, forest restoration projects and other programs. In all 22 counties in the state will share more than $11 million in rural school payments. According to Senator Jeff Bingaman, the payments are designed to help rural counties that rely economically on national forest lands.

The FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are investigating a shooting involving an officer from a tribal police agency just north of Espanola. Authorities say an officer shot a woman in the chest Sunday afternoon after responding to a domestic dispute. She was air lifted to University of New Mexico Hospital - no word on her condition, but investigators had to shutdown state Hwy 68 for a couple of hours near the shooting. The officer is on paid administrative leave.