NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 982
HOUSE BILL 192

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE IREDELL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING AS THE STATE'S CONTRIBUTION TO AN AREA SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER IN STATESVILLE.

Whereas, the State of North Carolina has a commitment to its senior citizens to support programs, activities and facilities which will contribute to the quality of life of those citizens; and
Whereas, the Iredell County Council on Aging is seeking to provide an Area Senior Citizens' Center in the City of Statesville to serve older persons in Statesville, Mooresville, rural Iredell County and parts of Alexander, Davie, and Yadkin Counties; and
Whereas, local citizens have already contributed $125,000, and the federal government has committed $92,920 for the purchase and renovation of suitable facilities for the Area Senior Citizens' Center; and
Whereas, an additional sum is needed to install elevators, furnishings, and other equipment and facilities suitable for use by the elderly; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Iredell County Council on Aging, for the fiscal year 1979-80, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to be used by the Council in the purchase, construction, renovation, and equipping of an Area Senior Citizens' Center in Statesville.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.