As used in the Public School Capital Improvements Act, “capital improvements” means expenditures, including payments made with respect to lease-purchase arrangements as defined in the Education Technology Equipment Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 6, Article 15A] or the Public School Lease Purchase Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 22, Article 26A] but excluding any other debt service expenses, for:

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A. erecting, remodeling, making additions to, providing equipment for or furnishing public school buildings, including teacher housing and pre-kindergarten classroom facilities;

B. purchasing or improving public school or pre-kindergarten grounds;

C. maintenance of public school buildings, including teacher housing, or public school or pre-kindergarten grounds, including the purchasing or repairing of maintenance equipment and participating in the facility information management system as required by the Public School Capital Outlay Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 22, Article 24] and including payments under contracts with regional education cooperatives for maintenance support services and expenditures for technical training and certification for maintenance and facilities management personnel, but excluding salary expenses of school district employees;

D. purchasing activity vehicles for transporting students to extracurricular school activities;

E. purchasing computer software and hardware for student use in public school classrooms; and

F. purchasing and installing education technology improvements, excluding salary expenses of school district employees, but including tools used in the educational process that constitute learning and administrative resources, and that may also include:

(1)     satellite, copper and fiber-optic transmission; computer and network connection devices; digital communication equipment, including voice, video and data equipment; servers; switches; portable media devices, such as discs and drives to contain data for electronic storage and playback; and the purchase or lease of software licenses or other technologies and services, maintenance, equipment and computer infrastructure information, techniques and tools used to implement technology in schools and related facilities; and

(2)     improvements, alterations and modifications to, or expansions of, existing buildings or tangible personal property necessary or advisable to house or otherwise accommodate any of the tools listed in this subsection.