NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1223

SENATE BILL 1053

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE MAJOR CONSTRUCTION FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING SCHOOL.

 

Whereas, the rapid growth of the North Carolina motor transport industry in the years immediately following World War II created a great demand for employees well trained in the skills necessary for safely driving tractor-trailers and large trucks, vans and similar motor transport vehicles using the public streets and highways; and

Whereas, the North Carolina State Truck Driver Training School was established in the year 1949 at North Carolina State College, (now North Carolina State University at Raleigh) under cosponsorship of the then North Carolina State College and the North Carolina Motor Carriers Association; and the said State Truck Driver Training School has for 30 years experienced outstanding success and far-famed recognition for the excellence of its six-weeks' program of concentrated training; and

Whereas, in 1974, as a part of the process of reorganizing public higher education services, negotiations between North Carolina State University and the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, led to an agreement whereby the North Carolina State Truck Driver Training School was transferred for general administration to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, by which authority the school is assigned to an institution of the Community College System for particular, local administration of its day-to-day operations; and

Whereas, the continued operation and existence of the North Carolina State Truck Driver Training School urgently requires that the State provide special funding for certain items of essential construction; and

Whereas, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has given assurance that it will provide fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and the North Carolina Motor Carriers Association is in the process of providing one hundred thousand dollars($100,000) as a further contribution and wherein the local tax leving authority of Johnston County has indicated a willingness to provide an additional sum of money for the purpose of providing funds to help meet the need for this construction project; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  In addition to any and all other appropriations made to the State Board of Education, Department of Community Colleges, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State of North Carolina the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for fiscal year 1980-81 for construction of a building to provide shelter for the motor vehicles and other items and services related to operation of the North Carolina State Truck Driver Training School.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1980.