A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to provide for salary and benefit ADJUSTMENTS for staff within the community collegeS system office.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of one million three hundred eighty‑eight thousand five hundred fifty‑two dollars ($1,388,552) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year for salary and benefit adjustments for staff within the Community Colleges System Office.  These funds are necessary to recruit and retain professional staff, both exempt from the State Personnel Act and subject to the State Personnel Act, and to restore funds cut from the legislative retirement rate adjustment.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.