CAPITAL & CAMPUS PROJECTS-NCCU.

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Senate Bill 419 (Public) Filed Wednesday, March 31, 2021
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND OTHER PROJECTS AT NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY.
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Status: Re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action) (Apr 7 2021)
S 419

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Mar 31 2021 - View Summary

    Transfers $89.1 million for 2021-22 from the General Fund to the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund (Fund). Appropriates those funds from the Fund to the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) to fund the specified capital improvement projects at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Allocates specified amounts to the following projects: Taylor Education Building Comprehensive Renovation, Master Plan Land and Property Acquisition, Fine Arts Music Building Comprehensive Renovation, C.T. Willis Building Comprehensive Renovation, and University Theater/Farrison-Newton Communications Building Comprehensive Renovation.

    Appropriates $10 million for 2021-22 from the General Fund to the BOG to be used in the specified amounts for the following purposes at NCCU: purchase of lab equipment and instruments for the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise and the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute, expansion of the doctoral program in integrated biosciences focusing on health disparities in underrepresented populations and for additional external research funding opportunities, and acquisition of ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology to allow campus police to identify the location of shots fired in and around campus that might be directed at dorms.

    Effective July 1, 2021.