Minnesota Session Laws - 1987, Regular Session

  

                         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) is 
subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 
15.059, subdivision 6 shall 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