NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1232

SENATE BILL 973

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE EASTERN CAROLINA SHELTERED WORKSHOP AND VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER IN GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, AS MATCHING FUNDS FOR SPECIAL FEDERAL APPROPRIATION.

 

Whereas, the Eastern Carolina Sheltered Workshop has developed a project entitled "Recreation and Supplemental Housing Project for the Handicapped"; and

Whereas, this project is designed to complement the current vocational evaluation, vocational development and vocational adjustment program being offered by the workshop; and

Whereas, the total cost of this project is estimated to be three million seven hundred fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars ($3,714,800); and

Whereas, the Eastern Carolina Sheltered Workshop has been approved for special federal appropriations to develop this project under the authority of Section 304(b)(3) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (P.L. 93-112) which allows federal financial participation up to ninety percent (90%), requiring a ten percent (10%) participation from nonfederal funds; and

Whereas, the Eastern Carolina Sheltered Workshop has received approval for a grant of two million one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($2,190,000) from Federal FY 1978 funds and assurance of an additional grant of one million one hundred fifty-three thousand three hundred twenty dollars ($1,153,320) from the Federal FY 1979 funds for a total of three million three hundred forty-three thousand three hundred twenty dollars ($3,343,320), the maximum allowable; and

Whereas, three hundred seventy-one thousand four hundred eighty dollars ($371,480) is required as matching funds to meet the ten percent (10%) nonfederal matching funds requisite; and

Whereas, one hundred forty-six thousand four hundred eighty dollars ($146,480) is to be raised by Martin and Pitt counties and the City of Greenville; and

Whereas, an additional two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000) is needed as matching funds to obtain the benefits of this federal grant; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Department of Human Resources, the sum of two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000) for the fiscal year 1978-79 to be used as matching funds by the Eastern Carolina Sheltered Workshop for implementation of the "Recreation and Supplemental Housing Project for the Handicapped".

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1978.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.