A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the paul j. ciener botanical garden.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to The Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden Foundation, a nonprofit organization, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to support development of Phase I of a public botanical garden within the downtown historic district of Kernersville.
The Ciener Botanical Garden will enhance education by providing horticultural training, cooperative programs with Forsyth Technical Community College, job training and placement, educational programs for local grade schools, and informative programs for citizens interested in such topics as water conservation and global climate and will enhance tourism and economic and cultural development for the local and visiting public as a tourism attraction in an underserved small town.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.