ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The University of New Mexico may be forced to eliminate some sports amid budget cut and reduced state funding.
The Albuquerque Journal reports the school's athletic director Paul Krebs told a Board of Regents committee this week that slashing some sports from the school is a last option if the athletics department isn't able to fight off another deficit.
Krebs says athletics will soon have to make some tough decisions after the department came off a fiscal year 2016 deficit of $1.54 million. He says it is off to a dismal start financially this fiscal year.
The announcement comes are district attorney's offices and other agencies are seeing a reduction in staff and funding due to a state budget crisis.
New Mexico lawmakers recently passed a revised budget to close an estimated half a billion dollar shortfall.
Information from: Albuquerque Journal.
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