NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 639
HOUSE BILL 577

AN ACT FOR CONSTRUCTION AND FOR RENOVATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES FACILITIES IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, SO AS TO PROVIDE DAY CARE AND SHELTERED WORK ACTIVITY SERVICES TO DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED CHILDREN AND ADULTS.

Whereas, it has been shown that community-based day services, sheltered workshop services and other services can be used to help the developmentally disabled attain their ultimate potential and use their abilities fully and such services to developmentally disabled children, adults and their families are in extreme need; and
Whereas, the Cumberland County and Fayetteville City Schools have initiated unique community programs in that they are administered by the public schools and serve persons otherwise excluded from public schools by providing day-care services, sheltered workshop services, and other services to developmentally disabled persons and such programs should be models to other communities in the State; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  To provide greater day care, sheltered work activity, and other services beneficial to and necessary for the continued care of developmentally disabled children, adults and their families, funds appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the Medical Care Commission shall provide for Cumberland County the sum of three hundred sixty thousand dollars ($360,000) for the 1973-74 fiscal year to be allocated as follows: three hundred ten thousand dollars ($310,000) to be expended for construction of a Developmental Disabilities Day-Care Facility on an adequate site to be provided either by the county or city wherein the same may be located or by both county and city, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to be expended for renovational cost of the facility which will house the sheltered workshop - work activity program. The said three hundred sixty thousand dollars ($360,000) shall be allocated upon the following conditions:
(1)	That fifteen percent (15%) of the construction cost of said developmental disabilities day-care facility shall be provided and paid by the county or city or both by the county and city wherein the facility shall be located.
(2)	That such county or city or both shall at its or their own cost and expense provide an adequate site in addition to paying said portion of the construction cost.
(3)	That the construction and renovation shall be implemented under the supervision and administration of the Medical Care Commission and through advice from and consultation with the Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1973.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.