LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- It was first come first serve Wednesday just to get five minutes of face time with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to discuss the state legislature's proposed budget cuts that are expected to fix a $660 million budget shortfall. And the concerns varied as not everyone is content with the proposed package.

“I'm here to ask the governor to consider not cutting New Mexico game and fish budget,” said local sportsman Angel Montoya.

“If these changes are made, it's going to affect us in the sense of behavioral health programs that we're receiving,” said Luis Trujillo of Southwest Counseling.

Teresa Rowlison is the program coordinator for the Southwest Regional Education Center, basically a program that works with school districts in assisting teachers in student success and special education.

“A support service for small rural districts and we are not being classified as public schools at this point in time,” Rowlison.

And that would mean her operation would fall into the state agency category and could face a cut of 6.5 percent in their budget, while public schools will see less than 1 percent of a cut.

“I want to protect those that are most vulnerable and I've said with education I don't want see hardly any cuts there and I think we've succeeded there,” said Richardson.

So Rowlison waited patiently for about two hours just get her chance to speak with the governor and convince him they should fall under public schools.

“Our ability to travel to our small rural districts has already been impaired,” she told the governor.

And he seemed to respond well as he immediately called the director for the office of education accountability.

“Put some into this REC thing because I don't want it to get this kind of cut,” said Richardson