Sec. OO-1. Transition provisions. The Maine Community College System, formerly the Maine Technical College System, is hereby established. All of the duties, functions, responsibilities, mission and goals and privileges of the Maine Technical College System become the duties, functions, responsibilities, mission and goals and privileges of the Maine Community College System. The Maine Community College System, including all of its component entities, is the successor in every way to the Maine Technical College System, including all of its component entities on the effective date of this Act. These powers, duties and functions include, but are not limited to, the following.
1. The members of the Board of Trustees of the Maine Technical College System shall serve as members of the Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System until their appointed terms expire.
2. All accrued expenditures, assets, liabilities, balances, allocations, transfers, revenues and all other available funds of the Maine Technical College System are authorized for use by the Maine Community College System.
3. All existing rules, regulations and procedures in effect, in operation or adopted in or by the Maine Technical College System or officers continue in effect until rescinded, revised or amended by the pertinent authority within the Maine Community College System.
4. All existing contracts, agreements, bonds, insurances, leases and compacts currently in effect in the Maine Technical College System continue in effect until rescinded, revised or amended by the pertinent authority within the Maine Community College System.
5. The Maine Community College System shall serve as the successor employer to, and shall assume the obligations of, the Maine Technical College System.
6. All buildings, automobiles, real property, equipment and other property previously belonging to or allocated for the use of the Maine Technical College System become the property of the Maine Community College System.
7. The Maine Community College System succeeds the Maine Technical College System as a recipient of federal vocational funding.
8. All existing forms, licenses, letterheads, signs and similar items bearing the name of or referring to the Maine Technical College System may be utilized by the Maine Community College System until existing supplies of those items are exhausted.
Sec. OO-2. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "Maine Technical College System" or "technical college system" appear or reference is made to those words, they are amended to read and mean "Maine Community College System" or "community college system," and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes.
Sec. OO-3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
MAINE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM,
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
Maine Technical College System -
Board of Trustees of the 0556
Initiative: Appropriates funds to further the efforts towards creating a community college system in the State.
General Fund 2003-04 2004-05
All Other $500,000 $500,000
__________ __________
General Fund Total $500,000 $500,000
Maine Technical College System -
Board of Trustees of the 0556
Initiative: Appropriates funds to provide public matching funds to secure private grant funds for scholarship assistance or limiting in-state tuition increases.
General Fund 2003-04 2004-05
All Other $475,000 $0
__________ __________
General Fund Total $475,000 $0
MAINE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
SYSTEM, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 2003-04 2004-05
GENERAL FUND $975,000 $500,000
__________ __________
DEPARTMENT TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS $975,000 $500,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM,
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
Educational and General Activities - UMS 0031
Initiative: Appropriates funds to provide public matching funds to secure private grant funds for scholarship assistance or limiting in-state tuition increases.
General Fund 2003-04 2004-05
All Other $475,000 $0
__________ __________
General Fund Total $475,000 $0
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM,
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 2003-04 2004-05
GENERAL FUND $475,000 $0
__________ __________
DEPARTMENT TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS $475,000 $0
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY
Maritime Academy - Operations 0035
Initiative: Appropriates funds to provide pubic matching funds to secure private grant funds for scholarship assistance or limiting in-state tuition increases.
General Fund 2003-04 2004-05
All Other $50,000 $0
__________ __________
General Fund Total $50,000 $0
MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 2003-04 2004-05
GENERAL FUND $50,000 $0
__________ __________
DEPARTMENT TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS $50,000 $0
SECTION TOTALS 2003-04 2004-05
GENERAL FUND $1,500,000 $500,000
__________ __________
SECTION TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS $1,500,000 $500,000
Sec. OO-4. Effective date. Sections 1 and 2 of this Part take effect when this Act is approved.
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