HF 4079

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to capital improvements; authorizing spending 
  1.3             to acquire and to better public land and buildings and 
  1.4             other public improvements of a capital nature; 
  1.5             authorizing the board of trustees of the Minnesota 
  1.6             state colleges and universities to make capital 
  1.7             improvements at Northwest Technical College and 
  1.8             Bemidji State University; authorizing issuance of 
  1.9             bonds; appropriating money. 
  1.10  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.11     Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION; NORTHWEST TECHNICAL COLLEGE AND 
  1.12  BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY.] 
  1.13     $9,740,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 
  1.14  the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and 
  1.15  universities to: 
  1.16     (1) acquire the former Bemidji High School property; 
  1.17     (2) demolish the existing high school buildings; 
  1.18     (3) relocate athletic fields from the Bemidji State 
  1.19  University campus to the cleared high school site; 
  1.20     (4) construct 40,000 square feet of new laboratory 
  1.21  facilities for the Center for Advanced and Emerging 
  1.22  Technologies; and 
  1.23     (5) provide furniture, fixtures, and equipment for the new 
  1.24  laboratories; 
  1.25  to house several programs of Northwest Technical College and 
  1.26  Bemidji State University. 
  1.27     Sec. 2.  [BOND SALE.] 
  2.1      To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the 
  2.2   bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance, on request of 
  2.3   the governor, shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an 
  2.4   amount up to $9,740,000 in the manner, on the terms, and with 
  2.5   the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 
  2.6   16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 
  2.7   4 to 7. 
  2.8      Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.9      Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
  2.10  enactment.