Connecticut General Statutes 10a-109e – UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program
(a) The university may administer, manage, schedule, finance, further design and construct UConn 2000, to operate and maintain the components thereof in a prudent and economical manner and to reserve for and make renewals and replacements thereof when appropriate, it being hereby determined and found to be in the best interest of the state and the university to provide this independent authority to the university along with providing assured revenues therefor as the efficient and cost effective course to achieve the objective of avoiding further decline in the physical infrastructure of the university and to renew, modernize, enhance and maintain such infrastructure, the particular project or projects, each being hereby approved as a project of UConn 2000, and the presently estimated cost thereof being as follows:
|
UConn 2000 Project |
Phase I |
Phase II |
Phase III |
| Academic and Research Facilities |
450,000,000 | ||
| Agricultural Biotechnology Facility |
9,400,000 | ||
| Agricultural Biotechnology Facility Completion |
10,000,000 | ||
| Alumni Quadrant Renovations |
14,338,000 | ||
| Arjona and Monteith (new classroom buildings) |
66,100,000 | ||
| Avery Point Campus Undergraduate and Library Building |
35,000,000 | ||
| Avery Point Marine Science Research Center – Phase I |
34,000,000 | ||
| Avery Point Marine Science Research Center – Phase II |
16,682,000 | ||
| Avery Point Renovation | 5,600,000 | 15,000,000 | |
| Babbidge Library | 0 | ||
| Balancing Contingency | 5,506,834 | ||
| Beach Hall Renovations | 10,000,000 | ||
| Benton State Art Museum Addition |
1,400,000 | 3,000,000 | |
| Biobehavioral Complex Replacement |
4,000,000 | ||
| Bishop Renovation | 8,000,000 | ||
| Budds Building Renovation |
2,805,000 | ||
| Business School Renovation |
4,803,000 | ||
| Chemistry Building | 53,700,000 | ||
| Commissary Warehouse | 1,000,000 | ||
| Deferred Maintenance/ Code Compliance/ ADA Compliance/ Infrastructure Improvements & Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities |
39,332,000 | 805,000,000 | |
| Deferred Maintenance & Renovation Lump Sum Balance |
104,668,000 | ||
| East Campus North Renovations |
11,820,000 | ||
| Engineering Building (with Environmental Research Institute) |
36,700,000 | ||
| Equine Center | 1,000,000 | ||
| Equipment, Library Collections & Telecommunications |
60,500,000 | 470,000,000 | |
| Equipment, Library Collections & Telecommunications Completion |
182,118,146 | ||
| Family Studies (DRM) Renovation |
6,500,000 | ||
| Farm Buildings Repairs/ Replacement |
6,000,000 | ||
| Fine Arts Phase II | 20,000,000 | ||
| Floriculture Greenhouse | 3,000,000 | ||
| Gant Building Renovations | 34,000,000 | ||
| Gant Plaza Deck | 0 | ||
| Gentry Completion | 10,000,000 | ||
| Gentry Renovation | 9,299,000 | ||
| Grad Dorm Renovations | 7,548,000 | ||
| Gulley Hall Renovation | 1,416,000 | ||
| Hartford Relocation Acquisition/Renovation |
56,762,020 | 70,000,000 | |
| Hartford Relocation Design | 1,500,000 | ||
| Hartford Relocation Feasibility Study |
500,000 | ||
| Heating Plant Upgrade | 10,000,000 | ||
| Hilltop Dormitory New | 30,000,000 | ||
| Hilltop Dormitory Renovations |
3,141,000 | ||
| Ice Rink Enclosure | 2,616,000 | ||
| Incubator Facilities | 10,000,000 | ||
| International House Conversion |
800,000 | ||
| Intramural, Recreational and Intercollegiate Facilities |
31,000,000 | ||
| Jorgensen Renovation | 7,200,000 | ||
| Koons Hall Renovation/ Addition |
7,000,000 | ||
| Lakeside Renovation | 3,800,000 | ||
| Law School Renovations/ Improvements |
15,000,000 | ||
| Library Storage Facility | 5,000,000 | ||
| Litchfield Agricultural Center – Phase I |
1,000,000 | ||
| Litchfield Agricultural Center – Phase II |
700,000 | ||
| Manchester Hall Renovation |
6,000,000 | ||
| Mansfield Apartments Renovation |
2,612,000 | ||
| Mansfield Training School Improvements |
27,614,000 | 29,000,000 | |
| Natural History Museum Completion |
4,900,000 | ||
| North Campus Renovation | 2,654,000 | ||
| North Campus Renovation Completion |
21,049,000 | ||
| North Hillside Road Completion |
11,500,000 | ||
| North Superblock Site and Utilities |
8,000,000 | ||
| Northwest Quadrant Renovation |
2,001,000 | ||
| Northwest Quadrant Renovation |
15,874,000 | ||
| Observatory | 1,000,000 | ||
| Old Central Warehouse | 18,000,000 | ||
| Parking Garage #3 | 78,000,000 | ||
| Parking Garage – North | 10,000,000 | ||
| Parking Garage – South | 15,000,000 | ||
| Pedestrian Spinepath | 2,556,000 | ||
| Pedestrian Walkways | 3,233,000 | ||
| Psychology Building Renovation/Addition |
20,000,000 | ||
| Residential Life Facilities | 162,000,000 | ||
| Roadways | 10,000,000 | ||
| School of Business | 20,000,000 | ||
| School of Pharmacy/ Biology |
3,856,000 | ||
| School of Pharmacy/ Biology Completion |
61,058,000 | ||
| Shippee/Buckley Renovations |
6,156,000 | ||
| Social Science K Building | 20,964,000 | ||
| South Campus Complex | 13,127,000 | ||
| Stamford Campus Improvements/Housing |
13,000,000 | ||
| Stamford Downtown Relocation – Phase I |
45,659,000 | ||
| Stamford Downtown Relocation – Phase II |
17,392,000 | ||
| Storrs Hall Addition | 4,300,000 | ||
| Student Health Services | 12,000,000 | ||
| Student Union Addition | 23,000,000 | ||
| Support Facility (Architectural and Engineering Services) |
2,000,000 | ||
| Technology Quadrant – Phase IA |
38,000,000 | ||
| Technology Quadrant – Phase IB |
16,611,000 | ||
| Technology Quadrant – Phase II |
72,000,000 | ||
| Technology Quadrant – Phase III |
15,000,000 | ||
| Torrey Life Science Renovation |
17,000,000 | ||
| Torrey Renovation Completion and Biology Expansion |
42,000,000 | ||
| Torrington Campus Improvements |
1,000,000 | ||
| Towers Renovation | 17,794,000 | ||
| UConn Products Store | 1,000,000 | ||
| Undergraduate Education Center |
650,000 | ||
| Undergraduate Education Center |
7,450,000 | ||
| Underground Steam & Water Upgrade |
3,500,000 | ||
| Underground Steam & Water Upgrade Completion |
9,000,000 | ||
| University Programs Building – Phase I |
8,750,000 | ||
| University Programs Building – Phase II Visitors Center |
300,000 | ||
| Waring Building Conversion |
7,888,000 | ||
| Waterbury Downtown Campus |
3,000,000 | ||
| Waterbury Property Purchase |
325,000 | ||
| West Campus Renovations | 14,897,000 | ||
| West Hartford Campus Renovations/ Improvements |
25,000,000 | ||
| White Building Renovation | 2,430,000 | ||
| Wilbur Cross Building Renovation |
3,645,000 | ||
| Young Building Renovation/Addition |
17,000,000 | ||
| HEALTH CENTER | |||
| CLAC Renovation Biosafety Level 3 Lab |
14,000,000 | ||
| Deferred Maintenance/ Code Compliance/ADA Compliance/Infrastructure & Improvements Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities – Health Center |
86,000,000 | ||
| Dental School Renovation | 5,000,000 | ||
| Equipment, Library Collections and Telecommunications – Health Center |
75,000,000 | ||
| Library/Student Computer Center Renovation |
5,000,000 | ||
| Main Building Renovation | 125,000,000 | ||
| Medical School Academic Building Renovation |
9,000,000 | ||
| Parking Garage – Health Center |
8,400,000 | ||
| Research Tower | 60,000,000 | ||
| Support Building Addition/Renovation |
4,000,000 | ||
| The University of Connecticut Health Center New Construction and Renovation |
394,900,000 | ||
| Planning and Design Costs | 25,000,000 | ||
| Total – Storrs and Regional Campus Project List |
2,583,000,000 | ||
| Total – Health Center Project List |
786,300,000 | ||
| TOTAL | 382,000,000 | 868,000,000 | 3,394,300,000 |
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 10a-109e
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
(b) The plan of funding UConn 2000 shall be the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the state in an amount authorized before June 7, 1995, and the proceeds of securities subject to the authorized funding amount established in subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of § 10a-109d and the proceeds of the Special External Gift Fund becoming available to the university pursuant to § 10a-109i.
(c) The amount of the state debt service commitment in each fiscal year shall be pledged by the university for the punctual payment of special debt service requirements as the same arise and shall become due and payable. As part of the contract of the state with the holders of the securities secured by the state debt service commitment and pursuant to § 10a-109u, appropriation of all amounts of the state debt service commitment is hereby made out of the resources of the General Fund and the Treasurer shall pay such amount in each fiscal year, to the paying agent on the securities secured by the state debt service commitment or otherwise as the Treasurer shall provide. The university shall be entitled to rely on the amount of the state debt service commitment and minimum state operating provision as and for assured revenues in any financing transaction proceeding, provided, to the extent any such proceeding includes reliance on such state debt service commitment and such minimum state operating provision, the university commits to a rate covenant and covenants, in substance, with the state and the holders of its securities to the effect that as long as any securities thereunder are outstanding that it has established and will charge, collect and increase, from time to time, and in time tuition fees and charges for its educational services, its auxiliary enterprises, including dormitory housing, food services and sale of textbooks and use of the physical university plant and for all other services and goods provided by the university, the amount of which, together with other assured revenues or other revenues otherwise available to the university including proceeds available from the Special External Gift Fund shall in each of its fiscal years be sufficient to pay when due, the special debt service requirements on outstanding securities and to permit the university to operate and maintain itself as an institution dedicated to excellence in higher education and to operate and maintain the physical university plant in sound operating condition and to otherwise permit the performance of all covenants included in the financing documents.
(d) With respect to UConn 2000 and within the authorized funding amount, the university may, from time to time, and shall whenever appropriate or necessary, revise, delete and add a particular project or projects, provided (1) a formal approving vote of its board of trustees shall be needed for a material revision, deletion or addition dictated by a change in university planning as determined by its board of trustees or otherwise necessary because of reasons beyond the control of the university, (2) any material revision shall be subject only to such formal approval of the board of trustees as long as the board finds and determines that such revision is consistent with the intent or purpose of the original project, (3) a material addition or deletion shall be conditioned not only upon such formal approval of the board of trustees but also upon a request by the board of trustees for, and enactment of, a subsequent public or special act approving such addition or deletion, if such addition is to add a project not outlined in subsection (a) of this section or the deletion is the deletion of a project outlined in subsection (a) of this section, and (4) no revision, addition or deletion shall reduce the amount of any state debt service commitment. Further, with respect to UConn 2000 and subject to the limitations in the authorized funding amount, the university may determine the sequencing and timing of such project or projects, revise estimates of cost and reallocate from any amounts estimated in subdivision (a) of this section, for one or more projects to one or more other projects then constituting a component of UConn 2000 as long as, at the time of such reallocation, it has found that any such project to which a reallocation is made has been revised or added in accordance with this section and such project from which a reallocation is made either has been so revised or added and can be completed within the amounts remaining allocated to it, or has been so deleted. University actions under this section shall be included in reports to the General Assembly under § 10a-109y.
(e) Until such time as the State Bond Commission allocates the bonds authorized pursuant to § 10a-109gg for the UConn health network initiatives, the university shall not expend any funds authorized by subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of § 10a-109d, subsection (a) of this section or subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of § 10a-109g for The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation, except for twenty-five million dollars for planning and design costs.
(f) The University of Connecticut Health Center shall (1) contribute not less than sixty-nine million dollars of funds from operations, special eligible gifts or other sources toward The University of Connecticut Health Center new construction and renovation, and (2) provide for construction of a new ambulatory care center through debt or equity financing obtained from one or more private developers who contract with the university to construct such new ambulatory care center.
(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, within the authorized funding amount, the university may revise, delete or add a particular project or projects to finance implementation of an electronic medical records system at The University of Connecticut Health Center, provided a formal approving vote of its board of trustees shall be needed. University actions under this subsection shall be included in reports to the General Assembly at the time and in the manner set forth in subsection (c) of § 10a-109x.