NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 681

SENATE BILL 17

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR STATE DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

—TITLE/PURPOSES

Section 1.  This act shall be known as "The Capital Improvement Appropriations Act of 1977".

Sec. 2.  The appropriations made by this act are for constructing or renovating State buildings, utilities, and other capital facilities; acquiring sites therefor where necessary; and acquiring buildings and land for State government purposes.

—PROCEDURES FOR DISBURSEMENTS

Sec. 3.  The appropriations made by Sections 4 and 5 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 department, institution, or agency until an allotment has been approved by the Director of the Budget, and which allotment shall be approved only after full compliance with the Executive Budget Act, Article I, Chapter 143, of the General Statutes. Prior to the award of construction contracts for projects to be financed in whole or in part with self-liquidating appropriations, the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission shall approve the elements of the method of financing of such projects including the source of funds, interest rate, and liquidation period.

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 Director of the Budget.

Projects listed in this act shall be completed, including fixed and movable equipment and furnishings, within the limits of the amounts of the direct or self-liquidating appropriations provided, except as otherwise provided in the act.

—GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS/SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

Sec. 4.  There is appropriated out of the General Fund the sum of thirty million three hundred thirty-nine thousand six hundred twenty-six dollars ($30,339,626) effective July 1, 1977, and thirty-one million nine hundred eighty thousand dollars ($31,980,000) effective July 1, 1978, for use by the State departments, institutions, and agencies to provide for capital improvement projects according to the following schedule:

Capital Improvements — General Fund                                    1977-78                       1978-79

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (TOTAL)                             $             50,000           $

        01. Renovation of Elevators                                                 50,000

DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION

   (TOTAL)                                                                            1,353,000                       850,000

        01. Completion of Capitol

             Restoration                                                                     55,000

        02. Completion of Governor's

             Mansion Renovation                                                      100,000

        03. Repairs and Alterations to

             State Buildings in the

             State Government Center                                              100,000                       100,000

        04. Greenhouse - General

             Services                                                                            6,000

        05. Renovation of Old Health

             Building                                                                         122,000

        06. Two new elevators for

             Justice Building                                                                                                  100,000

        07. Architectural Barrier

            Removal - State Government

            Center                                                                          120,000

        08. Land Acquisition - State

            Government Center                                                       100,000                       150,000

        09. Parking Deck-State

            Government Center                                                    2,000,000

            Less receipts -

            Self-liquidating                                                           2,000,000

            General Fund                                                                        -0-

        10. Reserve for Advance

            Planning of Capital

            Projects                                                                        250,000

        11. Land Acquisition - State

            Parks                                                                         1,000,000                    1,000,000

            Less receipts - Federal BOR                                         500,000                       500,000

            General Fund                                                                500,000                       500,000

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (TOTAL)                  1,375,000                       450,000

        01. Western Farmers Market                                               10,000

        02. Farm shops, office, and equipment shed -

            Umstead Farm                                                                75,000

        03. Renovation of Three Laying

            Houses                                                                         100,000

        04. Bulk Tobacco Curing and

            Handling Facilities -

            Border Belt Research Station                                          40,000

        05. Reserve for capital construction -

            Western Farmers Market                                              500,000

        06. Reserve for repairs to

            Dorton Arena                                                                200,000                       450,000

        07. Reroof wholesale sheds -

            Raleigh Farmers Market                                                225,000

        08. Reserve for Cherokee

            Farmers Market                                                            200,000

        09. Reserve for Handicrafts

             Museum - Haywood Technical

             Institute                                                                           25,000

BOARD OF GOVERNORS - THE

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA (TOTAL)             9,540,000

        01. Bed Tower for East Carolina

            University Medical School

            Complex                                                                    3,820,000

        02. OSHA Compliance

            Architectural Barrier

            Removal; Renovation and construction

            of Capital Facilities                                                     3,000,000

        03. Utilities and Site

            Improvements at Memorial

            Hospital                                                                        720,000

        04. Reserve for capital construction - NCSU

            Veterinary School                                                      2,000,000

COMMUNITY COLLEGES (TOTAL)                                1,000,000                    1,000,000

        01. Reserve for capital construction                                 1,222,932                    1,222,932

            Less receipts - Federal

            Funds                                                                           222,932                       222,932

            General Fund                                                             1,000,000                    1,000,000

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION (TOTAL)                   4,750,000                  24,900,000

        01 .Replacement of Central

            Prison - Phase I                                                            850,000                  16,150,000

        02. Reserve for Repairs and

            Renovations at Existing

            Facilities                                                                     1,000,000

        03. Reserve for Prison

            Construction                                                              2,900,000                    8,750,000

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (TOTAL)                                 456,376

        01. Renovation funds for the SBI facilities at

            Garner Road campus                                                    456,376

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES

        (TOTAL)                                                                          200,000                       200,000

        01. Reserve for Capital

            Improvements at Historic Sites                                      200,000                       200,000

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES

        (TOTAL)                                                                        3,575,000                    1,000,000

        01. Reserve for Correction of

            Code Deficiencies                                                      1,000,000                    1,000,000

        02. North Carolina School for the Deaf

            a. Upgrade Heating Controls

                 and Repair Smokestack                                            230,000

            b. Resurface roads                                                        100,000

        03. Eastern North Carolina

            School for the Deaf

            a. Resurface road                                                            65,000

        04. Governor Morehead School

            a. Reroofing                                                                    50,000

            b. Repair Gym Dressing Room                                        10,000

            c. Repipe Steam and Condensate

                 Lines                                                                          75,000

        05. Eastern North Carolina

            Hospital

            a. Reroof Spruill Wing                                                     28,000

        06. Cherry Hospital

            a. Renovate McFarland

                 Building                                                                    495,000

        07. John Umstead Hospital

            a. Secondary clarifier for

                 Sewage Disposal System                                          345,000

        08. Broughton Hospital

            a. Resurface roads                                                          95,000

        09. Murdoch Center

            a. Boiler Insulation                                                           85,000

        10. Reserve for Reroofing at

            Broughton, Dorothea Dix

             and John Umstead Hospitals                                         250,000

        11. Reserve for Reroofing at

            Murdoch, O'Berry, and

            Western Carolina Centers                                             740,000

        12. Cumberland County

             Regional Detention

             Center— Fencing,

             Lighting                                                                             7,000

DEPARTMENT OF CRIME CONTROL AND

PUBLIC SAFETY (TOTAL)                                                   332,250                       130,000

        01. New Armory, Morganton                                            425,000

            Less receipts - Local Funds                                             53,125

            Less receipts - Federal

            Funds                                                                           318,750

            General Fund                                                                  53,125

        02. New Armory, Gastonia                                                559,000

            Less receipts - Local Funds                                             69,875

            Less receipts - Federal

            Funds                                                                           419,250

            General Fund                                                                  69,875

        03. New Armory, Reidsville/Eden                                                                          650,000

            Less receipts - Local Funds                                                                                 81,250

            Less receipts - Federal

            Funds                                                                                                               487,500

            General Fund                                                                                                      81,250

        04. New Armory, Edenton                                                                                    390,000

            Less receipts - Local Funds                                                                                 48,750

            Less receipts - Federal

            Funds                                                                                                               292,500

            General Fund                                                                                                      48,750

        05. Armory Additions, Ahoskie                                           60,000

            Less receipts - Federal Funds                                          45,000

            General Fund                                                                  15,000

        06. Armory Addition, Asheville                                            90,000

            Less receipts - Federal Funds                                          67,500

            General Fund                                                                  22,500

        07. New Armory, Raeford                                                 559,000

            Less receipts - Local Funds                                             69,875

            Less receipts - Federal Funds                                        419,250

            General Fund                                                                  69,875

        08. New Armory, Albemarle                                             425,000

            Less receipts - Local Funds                                             53,125

            Less receipts - Federal Funds                                        318,750

            General Fund                                                                  53,125

        09. New Armory, Scotland Neck                                      390,000

            Less receipts - Local Funds                                             48,750

            Less receipts - Federal Funds                                        292,500

            General Fund                                                                  48,750

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND ECONOMIC

RESOURCES (TOTAL)                                                       5,420,000                    2,750,000

        01. Division of Environmental

            Management

            a. Reserve for Civil Works

            Projects

                  (01) Reserve for civil works                                    320,000                       750,000

                  (02) Reserve for Wanchese

                  Harbor                                                                    500,000                       500,000

                  (03) Watershed projects -

                  Chicod Creek and Swift

                  Creek                                                                     500,000                       300,000

        02. Division of Parks and

            Recreation

            a. Reserve for Capital

            Improvements at State Parks and

            Water-Based Recreation Areas                                  1,200,000                    1,200,000

            b. Continuation of Phase I Development -

            North Carolina Zoological Park                                  2,900,000

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (TOTAL)                      2,288,000                       700,000

        01. State Ports Authority

            a. Reserve for capital construction                              2,265,000                       700,000

        02. Division of Economic

            Development

            a. Reroof Science &

            Technology Building                                                        23,000

GRAND TOTAL - GENERAL FUND

APPROPRIATION                                                           $30,339,626                $31,980,000

—HIGHWAY FUND APPROPRIATIONS/SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

Sec. 5.  There is hereby appropriated out of the Highway Fund the sum of one million six hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars ($1,625,600) effective July 1, 1977, and one million one hundred thousand six hundred dollars ($1,100,600) effective July 1, 1978, for the use of the Departments of Transportation and Crime Control and Public Safety to provide for capital improvement projects according to the following schedule:

Capital Improvements - Highway Fund                                  1977-78                        1978-79

DEPARTMENT OF CRIME CONTROL

AND PUBLIC SAFETY (TOTAL)                                       $ 575,600                    $ 300,600

        01. Division of Highway Patrol

            a. Renovation to support housing services at the

            Governor Morehead School

            Garner Road campus                                                    435,600                       300,600

            b. To move transmitters to

            Archdale Building                                                            35,000

            c. Communications center for

            Troop G - Asheville                                                     -105,000

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

(TOTAL)                                                                               1,050,000                       800,000

        01. Division of Highways

            a. Reserve for Capital

            Improvement Projects                                                   200,000                       300,000

            b. Reserve for renovation at

            Marine Repair Facility                                                   500,000                       500,000

        02. General Administration

            a. Renovation of space to house

            a consolidated computer operation                                350,000

GRAND TOTAL - HIGHWAY FUND

APPROPRIATION                                                            $ 1,625,600                  $1,100,600

—FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING/CAPITAL APPROPRIATION

Sec. 5.5. To the end of providing maximum flexibility for the expenditure of appropriations consistent with federal regulations governing expenditure of general shared federal revenue, the items below, which are elements of 1977-79 Capital Improvement Appropriations to the indicated departments as enumerated in Section 4 of this act, are to be financed from the General Revenue Sharing Trust Fund of the State:

            Capital Improvements                                                   1977-78                        1978-79

Administration

        01. Completion of Capitol Restoration                                 55,000

        02. Completion of Mansion Restoration                             100,000

        03. Old Health Building Renovation                                    122,000

        04. Elevators - Justice Building                                                                               100,000

        05. Land Acquisition - Government Center                        100,000                       150,000

        06. Land Acquisition - State Parks                                     500,000                       500,000

        07. Access for Handicapped                                              120 000                      _______

                                                                        Sub-Total         997,000                       750,000

Agriculture

        01. Western Farmers Market                                             510,000

        02. Cherokee Farmers Market                                          200,000

        03. Farm Shop - Umstead                                                   75,000

        04. Bulk Tobacco Barns                                                      40,000

        05. Poultry Laying Houses                                                 100,000

        06. Repairs to Dorton Arena                                              200,000                       450,000

        07. Repairs to Farmers Market                                          225,000

        08. Handicraft Museum                                                       25,000                      _______

                                                                        Sub-Total      1,375,000                       450,000

Board of Governors

        01. Renovations, Maintenance &

            Utility Projects, OSHA, &

            Architectural Barrier Removal                                     3,000,000

        02. Memorial Hospital - Utility &

            Site Improvements                                                        720,000

        03. Reserve for Vet School                                             2,000,000

        04. East Carolina University - Bed

            Tower                                                                        3,820,000                                   

                                                                        Sub-Total      9,540,000                               -0-

Correction

        01. Central Prison Replacement, Phase I                            850,000                  16,150,000

        02. New Single Cell Construction                                   2,900,000                    8,750,000

                                                                        Sub-Total      3,750,000                  24,900,000

Cultural Resources

        01. Capital Reserve for Historic Sites                                 200,000                       200,000

                                                                        Sub-Total         200,000                       200,000

Crime Control & Public Safety

        01. Armories                                                                     332,250                       130,000

                                                                        Sub-Total         332,250                       130,000

Commerce

        01. Reserve for State Ports                                             2,265,000                       700,000

                                                                        Sub-Total      2,265,000                       700,000

Human Resources

        01. Code Deficiencies Reserve                                       1,000,000                    1,000,000

        02. Reroofing, Mental Hospitals                                         250,000

        03. Reroofing, Mental Retardation Centers                         740,000

        04. Road Repair, Broughton                                                95,000

        05. Sewage System, Butner                                               345,000

        06. Boiler Insulation, Murdoch                                             85,000

        07. McFarland Building Renovation-Cherry                       495,000

        08. Heating Controls-N.C. School for

            Deaf                                                                             230,000

        09. Road Repair-Eastern School for Deaf                            65,000

        10. Reroofing-Eastern North Carolina

            Hospital                                                                          28,000

        11. Road Repair-N. C. School for Deaf                             100,000

        12. Reroofing-Governor Morehead                                      50,000

        13. Repair Gym Dressing Room-Governor

            Morehead                                                                       10,000

        14. Repipe Steam Lines-Governor Morehead                      75,000                      _______

                                                                        Sub-Total      3,568,000                    1,000,000

Justice

        01. Renovation of Garner Road Facility                              456,376                    ________

                                                                        Sub-Total         456,376                               -0-

Natural Resources & Community Development

        01. State Parks Capital Reserve                                      1,200,000                    1,200,000

        02. Reserve for Zoo                                                       2,900,000                    ________

                                                                        Sub-Total      4,100,000                    1,200,000

   GRAND TOTAL - REV. SHAR./CAPITAL                  $26,583,626                $29,330,000

—ENCUMBERED APPROPRIATIONS AND PROJECT RESERVE FUND

Sec. 6.  When each project appropriated in Section 4 of this act, other than those projects under the Department of Community Colleges and The University of North Carolina Board of Governors, 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. Unencumbered direct appropriations remaining in the project budget 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 Director of the Budget 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 in the opinion of the Director of the Budget all means to award contracts within the appropriation shall have been reasonably attempted. The project reserve fund shall not be used in connection with any projects under The University of North Carolina Board of Governors or the Department of Community Colleges. At the discretion of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission any balances in the project reserve fund shall revert to the original source.

—UNC BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND OTHER LUMP SUM APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 7. There is appropriated in Section 4 of this act a lump sum to The University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Expenditure of funds in this appropriation shall be in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 116-11(9)a and G.S. 116-11(9)b, and this act, except where specifically excluded. Other lump sums appropriated in Sections 4 or 5 of this act shall be used for specific capital improvement projects in accordance with the priority needs of the respective agencies and as approved by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, and any funds remaining in a project account following encumbrance of all construction and equipment costs and reasonable contingency shall revert to the respective reserve.

—GOVERNOR AND ABC/POSTPONEMENT OF PROJECTS

Sec. 8.  Upon the request of a department, institution, or agency for which a capital improvement appropriation is made in this act, the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission are authorized and empowered to postpone any capital improvement project as provided in this act upon finding that the project cannot be carried out as originally intended by the General Assembly.

—ADVISORY BUDGET COMMISSION /APPROPRIATION MODIFICATIONS

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 pertinent department, agency, or institution, authorize an increase or decrease in size and scope of a direct or self-liquidating capital appropriation. Changes to a project or projects enumerated in this act may come from gifts, grants, federal receipts other than patient receipts, special fund receipts, or, from within the funds appropriated in this act to that department, agency, or institution.

—GOVERNOR AND ADVISORY BUDGET COMMISSION /NEW PROJECTS

Sec. 10.  The Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission may, when in their opinion it is in the best interest of the State to do so, and upon the request of a department, institution, or agency, authorize the construction of a capital improvement project not specifically provided for or authorized by the General Assembly. Funds which become available by gifts, grants, federal receipts other than patient receipts or receipts becoming a part of special funds by act of the General Assembly may be used for this purpose. No funds appropriated under this act for a specific capital improvement shall be used or expended for any capital improvement not specifically provided for or authorized by the General Assembly.

—RECREATIONAL LAND ADVANCES/REIMBURSEMENT

Sec. 11.  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 assured gifts or grants.

—COMMUNITY COLLEGES/MOVABLE EQUIPMENT

Sec. 12.  No construction contracts for capital improvements within the Department of Community Colleges shall be let until it has been clearly established that funds are available for related movable equipment.

—ADVANCE PLANNING RESERVE/DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 13.  There is appropriated in Section 4 of this act to the Department of Administration the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in fiscal year 1977‑78 as a reserve for the advance planning of capital projects and the preparation of program cost estimates on high priority capital projects. This reserve may be used as requested by a department and as approved by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission.

Advance planning shall be generally limited to the schematic design phase and in no case shall advance design proceed beyond the design development phase.

This reserve shall not be utilized in connection with projects under the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina or the Department of Community Colleges.

All amounts provided from the reserve shall be repaid to the reserve at such time as final design and construction monies become available.

Sec. 14.  (deleted)

—APPROPRIATIONS LIMITS/REVERSION OR LAPSE

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. Construction of all capital improvement projects enumerated in this act shall be commenced or self-liquidating indebtedness with respect thereto shall be incurred within 18 months following the first day of the fiscal year in which the funds are available. If construction contracts on such project or projects have not been awarded or self-liquidating indebtedness has not been incurred within that period, 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 this deadline with respect to both direct and self-liquidating appropriations may be extended with the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission when, in their discretion, existing circumstances and conditions warrant such extension.

—EFFECTIVE DATE

Sec. 16.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1977.