GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 198*

Short Title:  Schiele Museum Funds.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors: Senators Marvin, Rauch, and Harris.
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  Appropriations.
─────────────────────────────────────── 

February 20, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROGRAMS OF THE SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN GASTONIA.
Whereas, the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Inc., of Gastonia functions as a free educational facility to interpret the wonders of the natural world and the associated sciences to the general public; and
Whereas, the Schiele Museum currently attracts over one-half million visitors each year and serves approximately 100,000 students from preschool through college level; and
Whereas, the Schiele Museum, having recently celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, has expanded its programs and facilities to such an extent that it has been recognized by numerous State, regional, national, and international publications and organizations; and
Whereas, surveys have shown that the Schiele Museum is one of the more effective museums in the State, second only to the North Carolina State Museum in number of counties served, and is years ahead of other museums in networking programs with school systems; and
Whereas, the Schiele Museum is a recognized asset to travel and tourism in the State and an incentive to business and industry relocations; and
Whereas, the Carolina Piedmont Archaeology Project started in 1984 with Schiele Museum Board funds and an Archives and History Survey and Planning Grant has operated as a public archaeology program to integrate North Carolina prehistory within a framework of the Southeastern United States and educate North Carolina citizens about their local cultural resources, both prehistoric and historic, and has received Legislative appropriations in 1984 and 1987 to continue this important work; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Inc., in Gaston County the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) for the 1989-91 fiscal years to be allocated as follows:
(1)	Seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) for staff and operating expenses for the continuation of the archaeological survey in the south-central Piedmont; and
(2)	Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to conduct a summer school institute of field archaeology for the general public, college students, and senior high school students.
Sec. 2.  The Schiele Museum need not match the funds appropriated in this act.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.