NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 912

SENATE BILL 261

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, in addition to all other funds, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in fiscal year 1979-80, and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in fiscal year 1980-81. These funds shall be expended for renovation and operating expenses as shown below:

Fiscal Year       Fiscal Year

1979-80 1980-81

Renovation                                                                               $385,000         $     -

Reserve for Operating Expenses                                               115,000 100,000

Total General Fund                                     $500,000         $100,000

Sec. 2.  Funds are appropriated in Section 1 of this act to establish the Eastern North Carolina High School for the Deaf to be located in the City of Wilson on the campus of the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf. These funds shall be used to renovate sufficient space on the campuses of the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf and the North Carolina Special Care Center to provide both dormitory and administrative space.

Sec. 3.  Funds are also appropriated in Section 1 of this act to a reserve to be allocated by the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission. These funds shall be used to supplement the operating expenses of the Eastern North Carolina High School for the Deaf in the event that sufficient funds cannot be transferred from the North Carolina School for the Deaf.

Sec. 4.  This high school shall be phased in over a four-year period beginning with the 9th grade in the 1979-80 school year. Another grade shall be offered in each successive school year until grades 9 through 12 are available. It shall be the responsibility of the Department of Human Resources to establish the attendance zone for this high school.

Sec. 5.  Where practical and feasible, the Department of Human Resources shall transfer movable equipment, academic educational supplies, vocational educational supplies, and personnel positions to the Eastern North Carolina High School for the Deaf in Wilson.

Sec. 6.  The high school established by this act shall be a part of the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf. The entire school shall be under the supervision of a single administration.

Sec. 7.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.