GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 982

Short Title:  Public School Building Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Hunt; Blue, Easterling, Luebke, Ramsey, Rogers, Wright, and Yongue.

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Referred to:  Appropriations Subcommittee on Education.

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April 17, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS FOR GRANTS TO LOCAL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING CAPITAL PROJECTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Appropriation. –  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Public School Building Grant Fund created in this act in the Department of State Treasurer the sum of two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to be used for public school building capital projects as provided in this act.
Sec. 2.  Use of Funds. – There is created in the Department of State Treasurer a special fund to be designated "Public School Building Grant Fund".  Moneys in the Public School Building Grant Fund shall be used only for the purpose of making grants to local school administrative units for paying the cost of providing public school buildings including the planning, construction, reconstruction, enlargement, improvement, repair, or renovation of public school buildings, the purchase of land necessary for immediate construction of school buildings, and other related capital outlay projects constituting facilities for individual schools that are used for instructional and related purposes, but not including centralized administration, maintenance, or other facilities.
Sec. 3. Reports. – The Director of the Budget shall provide quarterly reports to the State Board of Education, the General Assembly, and the Fiscal Research Division on the expenditure of moneys from the Public School Building Grant Fund.
Sec. 4.  Allocation. – Funds in the Public School Building Grant Fund shall be allocated among the local school administrative units of the State as follows:

	Distribution	Distribution
	Based on	Based on
Local School	Ability	Average Daily
Administrative Unit	To Pay	Membership	Total

010 Alamance County	$          0	$2,457,092	$2,457,092
011 Burlington City	0	1,395,637	1,395,637
020 Alexander County	1,736,320	1,069,595	2,805,915
030 Alleghany County	14,733	318,544	333,277
040 Anson County	2,663,252	947,276	3,610,528
050 Ashe County	985,060	744,839	1,729,899
060 Avery County	0	517,982	517,982
070 Beaufort County	2,537,080	1,665,338	4,202,418
080 Bertie County	3,290,395	855,162	4,145,557
090 Bladen County	2,972,490	1,165,137	4,137,627
100 Brunswick County	0	1,963,531	1,963,531
110 Buncombe County	0	5,206,164	5,206,164
111 Asheville City	0	995,047	995,047
120 Burke County	4,027,432	2,828,119	6,855,551
130 Cabarrus County	0	3,350,599	3,350,599
132 Kannapolis	157,552	863,945	1,021,497
140 Caldwell County	4,171,190	2,508,504	6,679,694
150 Camden County	700,523	270,559	971,082
160 Carteret County	0	1,752,740	1,752,740
170 Caswell County	2,206,252	737,556	2,943,808
180 Catawba County	0	3,016,418	3,016,418
181 Hickory City	0	930,353	930,353
182 Newton City	0	594,886	594,886
190 Chatham County	0	1,396,279	1,396,279
200 Cherokee County	1,719,760	737,128	2,456,888
210 Chowan County	1,192,073	558,469	1,750,542
220 Clay County	437,753	257,920	695,673
230 Cleveland County	1,876,091	1,856,208	3,732,299
231 Kings Mountain City	864,539	855,376	1,719,915
232 Shelby City	709,082	701,567	1,410,649
240 Columbus County	5,123,569	1,645,416	6,768,985
241 Whiteville City	1,876,396	602,598	2,478,994
250 Craven County	5,241,935	3,127,812	8,369,747
260 Cumberland County	13,424,480	10,835,839	24,260,319
270 Currituck County	0	655,939	655,939
280 Dare County	0	878,084	878,084
290 Davidson County	2,177,638	3,737,693	5,915,331
291 Lexington City	375,296	644,157	1,019,453
292 Thomasville City	267,712	459,500	727,212
300 Davie County	0	1,029,322	1,029,322
310 Duplin County	4,609,520	1,772,234	6,381,754
320 Durham County	0	5,993,848	5,993,848
330 Edgecombe County	3,607,370	1,713,324	5,320,694
340 Forsyth County	0	8,539,840	8,539,840
350 Franklin County	4,071,102	1,439,123	5,510,225
360 Gaston County	0	6,248,554	6,248,554
370 Gates County	1,265,068	423,083	1,688,151
380 Graham County	907,413	263,704	1,171,117
390 Granville County	3,831,515	1,512,386	5,343,901
400 Greene County	1,527,302	592,316	2,119,618
410 Guilford County	0	12,088,164	12,088,164
420 Halifax County	4,092,790	1,351,936	5,444,726
421 Roanoke Rapids	2,060,339	680,574	2,740,913
422 Weldon City	804,810	265,846	1,070,656
430 Harnett County	 9,614,755	2,922,804	12,537,559
440 Haywood County	329,655	1,561,228	1,890,883
450 Henderson County	0	2,329,203	2,329,203
460 Hertford County	3,472,710	926,711	4,399,421
470 Hoke County	5,752,475	1,232,616	6,985,091
480 Hyde County	0	169,233	169,233
490 Iredell County	0	3,022,844	3,022,844
491 Mooresville City	0	717,419	717,419
500 Jackson County	0	738,199	738,199
510 Johnston County	6,873,372	3,568,460	10,441,832
520 Jones County	698,703	327,755	1,026,458
530 Lee County	697,798	1,747,384	2,445,182
540 Lenoir County	3,287,542	2,214,168	5,501,710
550 Lincoln County	1,498,755	1,992,879	3,491,634
560 Macon County	0	786,398	786,398
570 Madison County	1,386,397	543,902	1,930,299
580 Martin County	2,381,220	1,067,882	3,449,102
590 McDowell County	2,848,365	1,323,017	4,171,382
600 Mecklenburg County	0	18,917,894	18,917,894
610 Mitchell County	997,373	508,984	1,506,357
620 Montgomery County	2,059,025	900,148	2,959,173
630 Moore County	0	2,177,536	2,177,536
640 Nash County	5,563,850	3,738,336	9,302,186
650 New Hanover County	0	4,488,102	4,488,102
660 Northampton County	2,738,060	817,460	3,555,520
670 Onslow County	14,410,060	4,393,846	18,803,906
680 Orange County	0	1,205,839	1,205,839
681 Chapel Hill-Carrboro	0	1,686,332	1,686,332
690 Pamlico County	893,130	458,429	1,351,559
700 Pasquotank County	3,259,095	1,342,939	4,602,034
710 Pender County	2,301,945	1,192,129	3,494,074
720 Perquimans County	1,283,672	411,086	1,694,758
730 Person County	0	1,178,419	1,178,419
740 Pitt County	4,538,117	4,122,859	8,660,976
750 Polk County	0	453,716	453,716
760 Randolph County	3,800,027	3,253,130	7,053,157
761 Asheboro City	975,405	835,026	1,810,431
770 Richmond County	5,552,952	1,787,658	7,340,610
780 Robeson County	20,167,610	4,930,679	25,098,289
790 Rockingham County	3,905,840	3,032,484	6,938,324
800 Rowan County	2,949,983	3,984,259	6,938,324
810 Rutherford County	3,340,405	2,132,336	5,472,741
820 Sampson County	3,423,359	1,502,746	4,926,105
821 Clinton City	1,246,366	547,115	1,793,481
830 Scotland County	4,452,662	1,540,235	5,992,897
840 Stanly County	2,445,889	1,550,946	3,996,835
841 Albemarle City	718,226	455,430	1,173,656
850 Stokes County	1,223,540	1,418,558	2,642,098
860 Surry County	1,555,653	1,665,981	3,221,634
861 Elkin City	207,034	221,717	428,751
862 Mount Airy City	385,863	413,228	799,091
870 Swain County	1,307,115	354,747	1,661,862
880 Transylvania County	0	844,451	844,451
890 Tyrrell County	328,235	171,804	500,039
900 Union County	2,435,007	3,843,303	6,278,310
910 Vance County	3,273,215	1,543,448	4,816,663
920 Wake County	0	17,224,064	17,224,064
930 Warren County	2,206,617	654,867	2,861,484
940 Washington County	1,782,985	567,038	2,350,023
950 Watauga County	0	1,043,247	1,043,247
960 Wayne County	10,175,367	3,990,900	14,166,267
970 Wilkes County	3,054,177	2,095,276	5,149,453
980 Wilson County	1,999,000	2,567,200	4,566,200
990 Yadkin County	1,833,202	1,111,797	2,944,999
995 Yancey County	      842,360	     510,912	   1,353,272
GRAND TOTAL	$250,000,000	$250,000,000	$500,000,000.

If two or more local school administrative units are consolidated into one unit, the amount allocated above to the units shall be allocated to the merged unit.
Funds disbursed under this act shall be administered and supervised by the Director of the Budget and shall be used only for the purposes provided in this act.  Each school administrative unit shall submit to the Director of the Budget its plans for the expenditure of funds allocated under this act.  After the Director of the Budget determines that a school administrative unit's planned expenditure of part or all of the funds allocated to it is within the purposes provided in this act, the Director shall make the funds to which the plans apply available to the school administrative unit.
Sec. 5.  Reversion. – The funds appropriated in this act shall not revert but shall remain available until used for the purposes provided in this act.
Sec. 6.  Effective Date. – This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.