NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION
CHAPTER 693
SENATE BILL 34
AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS, DEPARTMENTS, AND AGENCIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. This act shall be known and "The Capital Improvement Appropriations Act of 1971".
Sec. 2. The appropriations made by this act are for the purpose of constructing buildings and utilities, the renovation of buildings and utilities, acquiring sites therefor where necessary, acquiring and installing equipment at the institutions, departments and agencies of the State hereinafter mentioned, as detailed in Volume III of the 1971-73 Budget.
Sec. 3. The direct appropriations made by this act to provide for Capital Improvements under Sections 4, 5, and 6 of this act shall be disbursed for the purposes provided by this act upon warrants drawn by the State Disbursing Officer, which warrants shall not be drawn for any State institution, department, or agency until a requisition has been approved by the Director of the Budget and which requisition shall be approved only after full compliance with the Executive Budget Act, Article 1, Chapter 143, of the General Statutes. Any officer of this State or executive head of any institution, or any director, trustee, or commissioner of any State institution, department, or agency to which a direct or self-liquidating appropriation is made under the provisions of this act who votes for or aids in spending more money for any improvement for any institution, department, or agency than is appropriated therefor except as hereinafter provided, may be removed from office by the Governor. Any additional monies which may be received by means of a grant or grants from the United States of America or any agency or department thereof, or from any other source to aid in financing the cost of any of the improvements herein referred to may be placed by the State Treasurer in the same fund or in a separate fund and, to the extent permitted by terms of such grant or grants, with the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, shall be disbursed in the same manner and for the same purposes mentioned in this act, as detailed in Volume III of the 1971-73 Budget. Appropriations for purchase of land in Section 4 of this act are consolidated into one appropriation to the Department of Administration. Self-liquidating appropriations for student housing are on the basis of four thousand four hundred dollars ($4,400.00) per student and shall not exceed this amount per student for the stated project including equipment and furnishings. Prior to the execution of design or construction contracts in respect to projects to be financed in whole or in part with self-liquidating appropriations the Advisory Budget Commission shall approve the method of financing such project. Where direct appropriations are provided in this act for the purpose of furnishing movable equipment for any project, such funds for equipment shall not be subject to transfer into construction accounts except as authorized by the Advisory Budget Commission. However, fixed equipment funds so provided may be expended under construction accounts to the specific amount required for equipment attached or connected to the building for which it is intended. It is the intent of this act that projects listed herein shall be completed, including fixed and movable equipment and furnishings, within the limits of the amounts of the direct or self-liquidating appropriations provided herein, except as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 4. There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund the sum of fifty-five million seven hundred eighty-five thousand three hundred forty-three dollars ($55,785,343.00) for the use of the State institutions, departments and agencies to provide for CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT projects according to the following schedule:
II. GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Department of Administration $ 7,763,000
1. New State Office Building 200,000
Pre-Planning
2. State Archives Annex
Building 1,405,000
Fixed Equipment 200,000
Movable Equipment 30,000 1,635,000
3. Convert Elevators to Automatic in Education
Building and Revenue Building Annex 100,000
4. Water Line, Blue Ridge Road 100,000
5. Sewage Pumping Station,
Blue Ridge Road 88,000
6. General Renovation and
Repairs to State Buildings 500,000
7. Purchase of Land, Capitol
Area and Institutional 3,615,000
8. Capitol Restoration 525,000
9. Museum Art Supplement 1,000,000
III. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATIONS
North Carolina Armory Commission 218,813
1. Armory, Butner 297,000
Less Federal Funds 222,750 74,250
2. Armory, Youngsville 224,501
Less Federal and Local Funds 196,438 28,063
3. Armory, Mocksville 222,000
Less Federal and Local Funds 194,250 27,750
4. Armory, Boone 222,000
Less Federal and Local Funds 194,250 27,750
5. Addition to Organizational Maintenance
Shop, Kinston 9,500
6. Fencing at Armories 44,000
Less Federal Funds 33,000 11,000
7. Detection Systems
at Armories 161,500
Less Federal Funds 121,000 40,500
IV. CORRECTION
Stonewall Jackson School 112,500
1. Renovate Basement in 12
Cottages 70,000
2. New Flooring for Cafeteria 24,000
3. Convert Deep Freeze Room 8,500
4. Extension of the Electrical
Distribution and Street Lights 10,000
Samarkand Manor 379,000
1. Addition to Administration
Building 94,000
Movable Equipment 10,000 104,000
2. Completion of Unfinished
Cottage 215,000
Movable Equipment 10,000 225,000
3. Renovate Water Treatment Plant 50,000
Cameron Morrison School 99,000
1. Milk Building 60,000
Fixed Equipment 20,000
Movable Equipment 5,000 85,000
2. Building for Processing
and Storing Meats 13,000
Movable Equipment 1,000 14,000
Richard T. Fountain School 108,000
1. Convert Boilers from Coal
To Oil in 4 Buildings 20,000
2. Renovate Toilets, Shower
And Dressing Rooms 13,500
3. Annex to Milk Plant
for Pasturizing 30,000
Fixed Equipment 2,500
Movable Equipment 1,500 34,000
4. Repair Slate Roofs, New
Gutters and Downspouts 18,500
5. Extension of Electrical Distribution
System and Street Lights 22,000
State Training School for Girls 161,000
1. Addition to Cafeteria 100,000
Fixed Equipment 15,000
Movable Equipment 14,000 129,000
2. Addition to Cold Storage
Room 18,000
3. Storage House for Cured
Meats 13,000
Movable Equipment 1,000 14,000
Samuel Leonard School 182,000
1. Renovate Present Classrooms
to Dormitory Space 45,000
2. Staff Residence for Director 25,750
Fixed Equipment 500
Movable Equipment 750 27,000
3. Renovate South and Center
Wings, Main Building 110,000
Juvenile Evaluation Center 195,000
1. Convert from Central Heating
Plant to Individual Heating in
Certain Buildings 145,000
2. Renovate 9 Staff Houses 14,000
3. Rewire 9 Staff Houses 36,000
Department of Correction 691,000
1. Multi-Purpose Facility,
Western Correctional Center 166,000
Fixed Equipment 5,000
Movable Equipment 20,000 191,000
2. Unallotted Reserve for
Capital Improvements 500,000
V. SOCIAL SERVICES
State Commission for the Blind 48,230
1. Industrial Arts Building,
Rehabilitation Center 102,000
Movable Equipment 5,000
Subtotal 107,000
Less Federal Funds 65,270 41,730
2. Enlarge Kitchen Area 20,000
Movable Equipment 3,000
Subtotal 23,000
Less Federal Funds 18,400 4,600
3. Deep Freeze Unit 9,500
Less Federal Funds 7,600 1,900
VI. EDUCATION
State Board of Education
Department of Community Colleges 3,000,000
1. Community Colleges and
Technical Institutes 3,000,000
UNC at Chapel Hill-Health Affairs 3,517,500
1. Utilities and Site
Improvements 2,052,500
2. Renovate Rosenau Hall 85,000
3. Renovate Ground, 1st and 2nd
Floors, Memorial Hospital 500,000
Fixed Equipment 250,000
Movable Equipment 155,000 905,000
4. Renovate 1st Floor Clinic
Building, Memorial Hospital 250,000
Movable Equipment 50,000 300,000
5. Renovate Ground Floor Infirmary
Building, Memorial Hospital 145,000
Movable Equipment 30,000 175,000
UNC at Chapel Hill-Academic Affairs 742,000
1. Utilities and Site Improvements,
and General Building Repairs 742,000
2. Student Health Services Building 1,930,000
Fixed Equipment 200,000
Movable Equipment 300,000
Subtotal Less 2,430,000
Self-Liquidating 2,430,000 -0-
3. Renovate 11 Dormitories 400,000
Less Self-Liquidating 400,000 -0-
North Carolina State University 1,978,600
1. Building Repairs, Utilities
and Improvements 1,978,600
2. Parking Structure 1,840,000
Less Self-Liquidating 1,840,000 -0-
3. Print Shop 545,000
Less Self-Liquidating 545,000 -0-
4. Residence Hall 3,150,000
Fixed Equipment 280,000
Movable Equipment 90,000
Subtotal 3,520,000
Less Self-Liquidating 3,520,000 -0-
5. Renovate Erdahl-Cloyd Union 155,000
Fixed Equipment 10,000
Subtotal 165,000
Less Self-Liquidating 165,000 -0-
6. Syme Hall Snack Bar Expansion 30,000
Fixed Equipment 12,000
Movable Equipment 10,000
Subtotal 52,000
Less Self-Liquidating 52,000 -0-
7. Fraternity/Sorority Houses 621,000
Fixed Equipment 45,000
Movable Equipment 99,000
Subtotal 765,000
Less Self-Liquidating 765,000 -0-
UNC at Greensboro 590,000
1. Renovate Existing Library Building 70,000
Fixed Equipment 25,000
Movable Equipment 90,000 185,000
2. Tennis Resurfacing and Lighting 90,000
3. Utilities and Heating Plant Renovations 75,000
4. Air Condition Two Lower Floors,
Mclver Building 70,000
5. Renovate and Air Condition
Music Building 160,000
Fixed Equipment 10,000 170,000
6. Replace Floors in 9 Dormitories 200,000
Less Self-Liquidating 200,000 -0-
7. Replace Electrical Wiring
in 9 Dormitories 350,000
Less Self-Liquidating 350,000 -0-
8. Parking for 300 Cars 50,000
Less Self-Liquidating 50,000 -0-
UNC at Charlotte 100,000
1. Landscaping 100,000
2. Parking for 450 Cars 120,000
Less Self-Liquidating 120,000 -0-
UNC at Asheville 17,000
1. Walks and Landscaping 17,000
UNC at Wilmington 133,500
1. Expansion of Utilities 75,000
2. Outdoor Lights and Walks 58,500
3. Student Parking Lot 46,000
Less Self-Liquidating 46,000 -0-
East Carolina University 158,000
1. Extend Heating Line to
Men's Gymnasium 70,000
2. Science Equipment for
Flanagan Building 88,000
3. Air Condition 3 Dormitories 1,145,000
Less Self-Liquidating 1,145,000 -0-
N.C. Agricultural and
Technical State University 2,015,000
1. Receiving and Storage
Building 320,000
Fixed Equipment 5,000
Movable Equipment 20,000 345,000
2. Heating Plant Improvements 300,000
3. Renovate Noble Hall 45,000
Movable Equipment 5,000 50,000
4. Alteration and Expansion of Primary 500,000
Electrical Distribution System
5. Campus Improvements 200,000
6. Air Condition Frazier Hall 60,000
7. Air Condition Sebastian Infirmary 60,000
8. Renovate Scott Hall, Phase I 500,000
Western Carolina University 1,437,000
1. Addition to Water Purification Plant 300,000
2. New Boiler and Steam Line Repairs 200,000
3. Underground Electrical Distribution System 250,000
4. Maintenance Shop Building 168,000
5. Replace Boardwalk, Hunter
and Stillwell Buildings 24,000
6. Completion of Business Building Basement 50,000
7. Walks, Drives and Landscaping 60,000
8. Air Condition Killian Building 85,000
9. Air Condition Business Building 115,000
10. Renovate Camp Laboratory School 25,000
11. Renovate Hunter Library 160,000
12. Stadium, Phase I 1,650,000
Fixed Equipment 10,000
Movable Equipment 5,000
Subtotal 1,665,000
Less Self-Liquidating 865,000
Less Student Fees, Gifts and Grants 800,000 -0-
13 Faculty and Married
Students Housing 1,850,000
Fixed Equipment 10,000
Movable Equipment 35,000
Subtotal 1,895,000
Less Self-Liquidating 1,895,000 -0-
14. Parking Building 480,000
Less Self-Liquidating 480,000 -0-
Appalachian State University 2,282,500
1. Firefighting Equipment 17,500
2. Campus Utilities 350,000
3. Centrex Telephone Facilities and
Underground Electrical Distribution Service 225,000
4. Campus Lighting 75,000
5. Conversion of Existing Coal Fired
Boilers to Oil 265,000
6. Married Students Housing Facility 1,582,000
Fixed Equipment 65,000
Movable Equipment 75,000
Subtotal 1,722,000
Less Self-Liquidating 1,722,000 -0-
7. Renovate Appalachian
Elementary School Building 725,000
Less Self-Liquidating 600,000 125,000
8. Water Supply System Supplement 1,225,000
Pembroke State University 432,000
1. Electrical Distribution
System Improvements 250,000
2. Athletic Field Relocation and
Improvements 35,000
3. Addition to Sampson Hall 50,000
4. Addition to Central Warehouse 50,000
Fixed Equipment 2,000 52,000
5. Additions and Alterations to
President's Home 45,000
6. Student Union 1,230,000
Fixed Equipment 40,000
Movable Equipment 70,000
Subtotal 1,340,000
Less Self-Liquidating 1,340,000 -0-
7. Dormitory for 500 Men 2,060,000
Fixed Equipment 110,000
Movable Equipment 30,000
Subtotal 2,200,000
Less Self-Liquidating 2,200,000 -0-
8. Dormitory for 400 Women 1,649,000
Fixed Equipment 90,000
Movable Equipment 21,000
Subtotal 1,760,000
Less Self-Liquidating 1,760,000 -0-
Winston-Salem State University 600,000
1. Improve Boiler System 275,000
2. Underground Utility System 325,000
3. Student Union Supplement 180,000
Less Self-Liquidating 180,000 -0-
Elizabeth City State University 1,016,500
1. Renovate Moore Hall, Phase 2 50,000
Movable Equipment 30,000 80,000
2. Renovate Administration
Building, Phase 2 65,000
Movable Equipment 15,000 80,000
3. Renovate Infirmary 85,000
Fixed Equipment 8,000
Movable Equipment 15,000 108,000
4. Renovate Lane Hall, Phase 2 100,000
Movable Equipment 10,000 110,000
5. Water Treatment System 9,500
Fixed Equipment 10,000
Movable Equipment 500 20,000
6. Landscaping 35,000
7. Campus Lighting and Wiring 75,000
8. Dormitories for 200 Students 812,000
Movable Equipment 68,000
Subtotal 880,000
Less Self-Liquidating 880,000 -0-
9. Health and Physical
Education Building 1,535,000
Fixed Equipment 70,000
Movable Equipment 90,000
Subtotal 1,695,000
Less Federal Funds 1,186,500 508,500
Fayetteville State University 539,000
1. Communications Center 125,000
Fixed Equipment 50,000
Movable Equipment 30,000 205,000
2. Renovate Mitchell Building
into Laboratory School 75,000
Movable Equipment 25,000 100,000
3. Landscaping 40,000
4. Roads, Walks, Parking Area
and Street Lights 80,000
5. Major Repairs to Buildings 65,000
6. Extension of Drainage System 15,000
7. Library Checkpoint Security System 34,000
8. Dormitory for 450 Students 1,810,000
Movable Equipment 170,000
Subtotal 1,980,000
Less Self-Liquidating 1,980,000 -0-
North Carolina Central University 470,000
1. Entrance Gate and Landscaping 20,000
2. Underground Utilities 450,000
North Carolina School of the Arts 134,900
1. Fire Hydrant and Water Line 4,500
2. Smoke Detection System,
Lower Division Housing 30,000
3. Rewire Main Building 36,400
4. Campus Entrance and Landscaping 64,000
Governor Morehead School 140,000
1. Convert Coal Fired Boiler to
Natural Gas-Ashe Avenue Campus 90,000
2. Renovate Heating Plant- Garner Road 50,000
Central North Carolina School for the Deaf 4,690,000
1. School for Deaf 4,315,000
Fixed Equipment 145,000
Movable Equipment 230,000 4,690,000
North Carolina School for the Deaf 961,000
1. Renovate Goodwin Hall 150,000
2. Renovate Electrical
Distribution System 155,000
3. Vocational Building 380,000
Fixed Equipment 65,000
Movable Equipment 40,000 485,000
4. Renovate Main Building and
Hoffmeyer Hall Food Service Areas 19,500
Fixed Equipment 4,500 24,000
5. Repairs for Underhill Gymnasium,
Service Building and Joiner Hall 25,000
6. Clean and Repair Mountain
Water System 25,000
7. Playground 34,000
Fixed Equipment 6,000
Movable Equipment 2,000 42,000
9. Air Condition Existing
Vocational School 40,000
9. Increase Fuel Oil Storage Capacity 15,000
Department of Archives and History 50,000
1. Mezzanine Floor Exhibits –
Museum of History 50,000
VIII. HEALTH AND HOSPITALS
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center-
Black Mountain 32,000
1. Storage Addition 20,000
Movable Equipment 3,000 23,000
2. Expand Dietary Storage Area 8,000
Movable Equipment 1,000 9,000
Dorothea Dix Hospital
1. Renovate Power Plant 150,000
2. Renovate Edgerton Building 430,000
Fixed Equipment 20,000
Movable Equipment 25,000 475,000
3. Food Distribution System 7,000
Fixed Equipment 80,000
Movable Equipment 90,000 177,000
4. Air Conditioning Improvements
of Spruill Building 95,000
5. Demolition of Erwin Building 10,000
6. Distribution Center for Laundry 137,500
Broughton Hospital 1,070,000
1. Improvements to Underground
Electrical Wiring System 250,000
2. Air Condition Harper and
Scroggs Building 300,000
3. Laundry Equipment 70,000
4. Renovate Auditorium
RT-OT Building 30,000
5. Finish Ground Floor and Air
Condition Chapel 77,000
Fixed Equipment 10,000
Movable Equipment 3,000 90,000
6. Renovate Ward 202, Jones
Building 100,000
7. X-Ray Equipment 140,000
8. Physical Therapy and
Rehabilitation Building 55,000
Fixed Equipment 35,000 90,000
Western Carolina Center 332,000
1. Diagnostic Clinic Addition 105,000
Fixed Equipment 20,000
Movable Equipment 10,000 135,000
2. Renovate One "H" Building 90,000
Fixed Equipment 2,000
Movable Equipment 5,000 97,000
3. Air Condition Gymnasium 100,000
Cherry Hospital 1,243,000
1. Convert Boilers from Coal
to Gas and Oil 250,000
2. Renovate Richardson Building 845,000
Fixed Equipment 28,000
Movable Equipment 40,000 913,000
3. Tuck-point Six Buildings 80,000
O'Berry Center 746,700
1. Additional Office Space for
Administration Building 245,000
Movable Equipment 19,000 264,000
2. Safety Fence and Entrance 19,700
3. Renovate Dormitories B-l and B-4 260,000
Fixed Equipment 68,000 328,000
4. Air Condition Two "A" Type Dormitories 100,000
5. Emergency Generator Equipment 35,000
John Umstead Hospital 425,000
1. X-Ray Equipment 40,000
2. Replace Boilers-Umstead
Youth Center 50,000
3. Renovate Two Warehouses 100,000
Fixed Equipment 10,000 110,000
4. Toilet Partitioning-
Ward Areas 25,000
5. Purchase of Power Line Truck 25,000
6. Emergency Lighting 75,000
7. Alterations to Wards for
Children's Psychiatric Institute 100,000
Murdoch Center 1,643,500
1. Renovate High Temperature
Hot Water Distribution
System-Phase 2 375,000
2. Air Condition Cottages 985,000
3. Renovate Right Wing, Cottage G-1 180,000
Fixed Equipment 3,500 183,500
4. Convert Boilers from Coal
to Natural Gas and Oil 100,000
Caswell Center 1,779,000
1. Renovate Cold Storage Area in
Central Warehouse Building 40,000
2. Renovate Colony Buildings 190,000
3. Increase Boiler Capacity 650,000
4. Raze Eight Old Frame Buildings 4,000
5. Water System Improvement 10,000
6. Dormitory for Non-Ambulatory Patients 750,000
Fixed Equipment 35,000
Movable Equipment 40,000 825,000
7. Milking Barn Facility 38,000
Fixed Equipment 22,000 60,000
Wright School 52,000
1. Renovate Existing Building 52,000
North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital 168,100
1. Additions and Alterations 168,100
Western North Carolina Sanatorium 100,000
1. Renovation and Equipment for
X-Ray Department 10,000
Fixed Equipment 90,000 100,000
IX. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION
Department of Conservation and Development 1,564,000
1. Division of Travel Information
and Promotion -Welcome Center 119,000
Movable Equipment 20,000 139,000
2. Division of Forestry-
Reserve for Capital
Improvement Projects 425,000
3. Division of State Parks-
Reserve for Capital
Improvement Projects 1,000,000
Kerr Reservoir Development Commission 238,500
1. Repairs to Campsites, Picnic
Tables and Fireplaces 10,000
2. Gravel Surfacing for
Existing Roads 210,000
3. Information Booth and
Parking Area-Satterwhite Point 7,500
4. Car Lift and Grease Rack-
Satterwhite Point 6,000
Parking 5,000 11,000
Department of Water and Air Resources 5,000,000
1. Construction Grants for Aid
to Municipal Waste Treat-
ment Plants 4,500,000
2. Civil Works Projects,
Aid to Communities 500,000
State Ports Authority 3,350,000
1. Sewage Collection System,
Wilmington Port 200,000
2. Open Dock - Morehead City 3,150,000
X. AGRICULTURE
Department of Agriculture 1,135,000
1. Parking Improvements- State Fair 60,000
Less Receipts 60,000 -0-
2. Events and Exhibit Building-
State Fair 900,000
Fixed Equipment 10,000
Movable Equipment 20,000
Subtotal 930,000
Less Receipts 200,000
Less Self-Liquidating 365,000 365,000
3. Agronomic Services
Laboratory, Raleigh 560,000
Fixed Equipment 160,000
Movable Equipment 50,000 770,000
N. C. State University-
Agricultural Experiment Station 900,000
1. Ricks Hall Addition 325,000
Movable Equipment 35,000 360,000
2. Renovate Kilgore Hall 380,000
Fixed Equipment 130,000
Movable Equipment 30,000 540,000
Sec. 5. There is hereby appropriated out of the Highway Fund the sum of four million ninety-seven thousand two hundred ninety-three dollars ($4,097,293.00) for the use of the Department of Motor Vehicles and the State Highway Commission to provide for CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT projects according to the following schedule:
III. PUBLIC SAFETY AND REGULATIONS
Department of Motor Vehicles 1,267,000
1. Communications Center, Raleigh 108,000
Fixed Equipment 150,000
Movable Equipment 5,000 263,000
2. Troop Headquarters Build-
ing, Hickory 570,000
Movable Equipment 30,000 600,000
3. Garage for Troop
Headquarters, Hickory 98,000
Fixed Equipment 20,000
Movable Equipment 5,000 123,000
4. Office Building,
Rutherford County 135,500
Movable Equipment 5,000
5. Office Building, Monroe 135,500
Movable Equipment 5,000 140,500
VII. HIGHWAYS
State Highway Commission 2,830,293
1. Reserve for Capital
Improvement Projects 2,830,293
Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated out of the Wildlife Resources Fund the sum of eight hundred five thousand nine hundred eighty-six dollars ($805,986.00) to provide for CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT projects for the Wildlife Resources Commission according to the following schedule:
IX. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION
Wildlife Resources Commission 805,986
1. Basin Creek Fish Hatchery-
Wilkes County 73,486
Fixed Equipment 140,000 213,486
2. Statewide Boat Access
Development 70,000
3. Acquisition of Land for Boating
and Fishing Access to
Public Waters 10,000
4. Acquisition of Land for Wildlife
Management Areas- Statewide 512,500
Sec. 7. When each project appropriated for in Section 4 of this act is placed under construction contract, direct appropriations therefor shall be encumbered to include all costs for construction, design, investigation, administration, movable equipment and a reasonable contingency. Surplus direct appropriations remaining in the project budget after encumbering costs described above shall be placed in a Project Reserve Fund credited to the Department of Administration. Use of this Project Reserve Fund shall be at the discretion of the Advisory Budget Commission, and solely to allow for award of contracts where bids exceed appropriated funds, on condition that such projects supplemented shall have been designed within the physical scope intended by the applicable appropriation or any authorized change therein, and all means to award contracts within the appropriation shall have been reasonably attempted in the opinion of the Advisory Budget Commission. At the discretion of the Advisory Budget Commission, any balances in the Project Reserve Fund shall revert to the original source.
Sec. 8. The Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission are authorized and empowered to delete any CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT project or projects as provided in this act and substitute therefor any other CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT project or projects which on the request of the department, agency or institution, and in the opinion of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, shall be deemed to be in the best interest of the State. Such substituted projects shall take precedence over" projects enumerated in this act within the limit of funds provided to the requesting department, agency, or institution in this appropriation.
Sec. 9. The Advisory Budget Commission may, when in its opinion it is in the best interest of the State to do so, and upon the request of the department, institution, or agency, authorize an increase or a decrease in size, scope, direct or self-liquidating appropriation of any project or projects enumerated in this act within the funds available to that department, agency or institution.
Sec. 10. There is authorized in Section 4 of this act, under the subheading of Western Carolina University, the sum of eight hundred sixty-five thousand dollars ($865,000.00) on a self-liquidating basis involving no appropriation of State funds, which, when supplemented and matched by private gifts and donations or funds other than those appropriated to Western Carolina University in the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000.00), will provide a total of one million six hundred sixty-five thousand dollars ($1,665,000.00) for the purpose of constructing a stadium. No self-liquidating indebtedness for a stadium shall be incurred by Western Carolina University unless the Advisory Budget Commission shall have determined in its discretion, which determination shall be binding and conclusive, that (a) the University has received pledges for the construction of the stadium of gifts from individuals, corporations or funds other than those appropriated to Western Carolina University in the amount of not less than eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000.00) and (b) the self-liquidating funds in the amount of eight hundred sixty- five thousand dollars ($865,000.00) will be provided pursuant to a financing program in conformity with the General Statutes of North Carolina which financing program shall provide for the retirement of such self-liquidating indebtedness within a reasonable period of time from the proceeds of anticipated receipts and other revenues received in connection with the use of the stadium.
Sec. 11. There is appropriated under Section 4 of this act the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) as a supplement to a previous appropriation and authorization in connection with the construction, equipping and furnishing a new State Art Museum Building. It is the intent of the General Assembly of North Carolina that this appropriation of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) shall be reserved and used with funds previously appropriated and with funds derived from other sources such as private gifts, grants and other non-State funds made available by individuals, corporations, foundations and others; and shall be used as requested by the State Art Museum Building Commission, subject to the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission. The provisions of this act relative to reversion shall not be applicable to this appropriation.
Sec. 12. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to transfer, as between the three institutions, the appropriations made in this act for the North Carolina School for the Deaf, the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and the Governor Morehead School, and as between the eight training schools under the jurisdiction of the Board of Juvenile Correction, the appropriations made to any of them, when in his opinion it shall be deemed to be in the best interest of the State.
Sec. 13. The Director of the Budget is authorized and empowered to advance, from the land-purchase appropriations made in this act, funds necessary for purchase of recreational land for which there is either no specific appropriation or only a partial appropriation, when reimbursement of such advances will be later effected by the federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation.
Sec. 14. There are appropriated in Sections 4 and 5 of this act certain lump sums of funds specifically to the Department of Correction; the Department of Conservation and Development, Division of Forestry; the Department of Conservation and Development, Division of State Parks; and the Department of Water and Air Resources from the General Fund; and to the State Highway Commission from the Highway Fund. Such lump sums of funds shall be used for specific projects of CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS from time to time and in accordance with the priority needs of the respective agencies, and as approved by the Advisory Budget Commission generally as described and set forth in Volume III of the Budget. In the case of the Department of Water and Air Resources, the lump sums of monies are intended by the General Assembly primarily to supplement funds from federal and/or local sources for projects approved by the Advisory Budget Commission to accomplish the purposes indicated in this act. The proportion of State funds to be provided as supplement to federal and/or local funds shall be in accordance with formulae of the federal agency or in reasonable proportion as approved by the Advisory Budget Commission.
Sec. 15. Subject to any transfers and changes between appropriations as permitted in previous sections of this act, the appropriations for CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS made in this act shall be expended only for specific projects set out in this act. Construction of all CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT projects enumerated in this act shall be commenced or self-liquidating indebtedness with respect thereto shall be incurred commenced on or before December 31, 1972; if construction on such project or projects has not been commenced or self-liquidating indebtedness has not been incurred on or before December 31, 1972, then the direct appropriation for such project or projects shall revert to the original source, and the self-liquidating appropriation shall lapse; except that direct appropriations may be placed in the Project Reserve Fund; provided, however, that subject to the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission this deadline with respect to both direct and self-liquidating appropriations may be extended when, in the discretion of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, existing circumstances and conditions warrant such extension.
Sec. 16. Any unencumbered direct appropriation balances remaining in the CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT funds of 1969 appropriated for construction and equipment shall revert to the original source on December 31, 1971; provided that the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission may grant further extension for specific projects in such cases where conditions warrant.
Sec. 17. The several departments, institutions, and agencies of the State are fully authorized and empowered to make application or applications to any agency or agencies of the United States of America for grant-in-aid for the construction of the several projects in this act and within the scope and intent of the projects enumerated in this act and to expend the same in accordance with the terms of such grants which are not contrary to the laws of this State. The Advisory Budget Commission and the Department of Administration, in its pertinent divisions, shall be furnished in advance with copies of all requests for federal funds and this information shall be kept current.
Sec. 18. This act shall be in full force and effect July 1, 1971.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of June, 1971.