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Laws of Minnesota 1987 CHAPTER 274-H.F.No. 899 An act relating to education; establishing the Fond du Lac Higher Education Center; continuing the Fond du Lac Higher Education Task Force; requiring reports; appropriating money; amending Laws 1986, First Special Session chapter 1, article 10, section 1, subdivision 9. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. [FOND DU LAC HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER.] Subdivision 1. [PILOT PROJECT TO SERVE AREA.] The Fond du Lac Higher Education Center is established as a pilot project. The project must include day and evening classes and extension and workshop offerings in the Fond du Lac service area. Subd. 2. [GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION.] The Fond du Lac Higher Education Center must be governed by the state board for community colleges and administered by Arrowhead Community College. Sec. 2. Laws 1986, First Special Session chapter 1, article 10, section 1, subdivision 9, is amended to read: Subd. 9. Governor 50,000 0 The governor, after consulting with the Fond du Lac reservation and the higher education coordinating board, shall appoint a task force of 13 members to study the feasibility of establishing a coordinate campus of Arrowhead Community College on the Fond du Lac Indian reservation that would be open and available to all. The task force shall report to the legislature on the results of its study by February 1, 1987. The task force shall provide copies of its report to the state board for community colleges and the higher education coordinating board. Those boards shall respond to the legislature on the report of the task force by March 1, 1987. The task force (1)issubject to Minnesota Statutes, section15.059, subdivision 6shall continue to operate until June 30, 1989 to oversee the establishment of the Fond du Lac Higher Education Center, (2) may accept money from nonstate sources to do its work, (3) shall cooperate with and invite the participation before it of the federal government, including the bureau of Indian Affairs, and (4) shall report on, among other things, the availability of federal tribal community college funding. Sec. 3. [APPROPRIATION.] $200,000 in fiscal year 1988 and $200,000 in fiscal year 1989 are appropriated from the general fund to the state board for community colleges to establish and operate the Fond du Lac Higher Education Center. The appropriation is available until June 30, 1989. Sec. 4. [REPORTS.] The state board for community colleges shall report to the appropriations and finance committees of the legislature by January 15, 1988, and January 15, 1989, on the progress of establishing the center. Before this submission, the state board shall submit its reports to the higher education coordinating board for review and comment. Approved May 28, 1987
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