GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 378

Short Title:  GPAC/DPI TAC Activities.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 24, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO CONSOLIDATE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION'S TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall reorganize the activities of the Technical Assistance Centers so as to provide services more efficiently and effectively to the local school administrative units.  Personnel that perform development activities shall be located in Raleigh.  Personnel that provide coordination and monitoring activities and assistance and support to local school administrative units shall be located at the Technical Assistance Areas.
The Technical Assistance Centers shall coordinate the service groups offered at the centers.  They shall also serve as the first point of contact for services not offered at the centers and shall contact the appropriate consultants based in Raleigh on behalf of local school administrative units needing those services.
Sec. 2.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Public Education, Department of Public Instruction, for the 1994-95 fiscal year for personnel located in Technical Assistance Centers, the sum of five million one hundred twenty-two thousand six hundred seventy-five dollars ($5,122,675) shall be allocated to the local school administrative units. The local school administrative units shall use these funds to purchase from the Technical Assistance Centers assistance activities that are not provided to all units and that focus on specific needs of the units.  The Technical Assistance Centers shall continue to provide coordination and management activities to the local school administrative units without charge.
Effective July 1, 1995, local school administrative units may use one-half of the funds allocated to purchase assistance activities from the Technical Assistance Centers to purchase assistance activities from the centers or to hire consultants to provide the assistance activities.
Effective July 1, 1996, local school administrative units may use the funds allocated to purchase assistance activities from the Technical Assistance Centers to purchase assistance activities from the centers or to hire consultants to provide the assistance activities.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.