A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to APPROPRIATE FUNDS for the construction of the VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL TRAINING FACILITY on the graham county campus of the tri‑county community college.
Whereas, plans have been made to construct the Vocational and Technical Training Building on the Graham County campus of the Tri‑County Community College to house machinist, automotive, and retraining programs for recently laid‑off workers; and
Whereas, the facility will ease overcrowding that is being experienced from the growth of the college and the immense need to retrain the greater Graham County working community; and
Whereas, Stanley Furniture, the largest employer in Graham County, has recently announced that it will cease to operate in Graham County and has announced that it will lay off all of its employees; and
Whereas, the closure of Stanley Furniture has created both a job and industry vacuum that can only be remedied by retraining these laid‑off employees; and
Whereas, the Vocational and Technical Training Building will cost $1,400,000, of which Tri‑County Community College will provide $350,000; and
Whereas, additional funds are needed to begin construction of this facility; Now, therefore,
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 fifty thousand dollars ($1,050,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year for the construction of the Vocational and Technical Training Building on the Graham County campus of the Tri‑County Community College.
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.