SF 3271

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             providing for a grant to the Minnesota State Academies 
  1.6             for the Deaf and the Blind for asset preservation 
  1.7             activities and correction of a life safety hazard; 
  1.8             authorizing issuance of bonds; appropriating money. 
  1.9   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.10     Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.11     (a) $3,816,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund 
  1.12  to the commissioner of children, families, and learning for a 
  1.13  grant to the Minnesota State Academies for the Deaf and the 
  1.14  Blind for asset preservation activities, an electrical upgrade, 
  1.15  sewer and water improvements, and correction of a potential life 
  1.16  safety hazard, subject to the requirements of Minnesota 
  1.17  Statutes, section 16A.695. 
  1.18     (b) Of this amount, $1,750,000 shall be used to fund asset 
  1.19  preservation activities that address health and safety issues 
  1.20  and maintain the physical plant of the academies' campuses, and 
  1.21  provide an electrical upgrade at the Minnesota State Academy for 
  1.22  the Deaf and sewer and water improvements at the Minnesota State 
  1.23  Academy for the Blind. 
  1.24     (c) Of this amount, $2,066,000 shall be used to correct a 
  1.25  potential life safety hazard related to mold in the west wing of 
  1.26  Noyes Hall. 
  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 $3,816,000 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.