NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION
CHAPTER 1383
HOUSE BILL 1640
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO COASTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO PROVIDE EQUIPMENT FOR THE JAMES S. MELTON VOCATIONAL SKILLS CENTER.
Whereas, the James S. Melton Vocational Skills Center is designed to provide expandable, multi-purpose laboratories and supportive space to meet the present and future needs for skills training to advance the economy of Eastern North Carolina; and
Whereas, construction of the James S. Melton Vocational Skills Center comes from a one million two hundred thousand dollar ($1,200,000) grant from the Economic Development Administration with a local contribution of eight hundred sixty thousand dollars ($860,000) in funds and land; and
Whereas, the project is supported by governmental leaders and organizations at the federal, State, and local levels and by industries planning moves or expansions in the nine counties served by the James S. Melton Vocational Skills Center; and
Whereas, the funds to be appropriated are necessary to provide the James S. Melton Vocational Skills Center with the basic equipment to work with client industries and to commence full services for the citizens of Eastern North Carolina; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Coastal Carolina Community College the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the fiscal year 1982-83 to equip the James S. Melton Vocational Skills Center. Any unexpended funds at the end of the 1982-83 fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund.
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1982.