Sec. 10a-109e. UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 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
Fiscal Years
1996−1999 Phase II
Fiscal Years
2000−2005 Phase III
Fiscal Years
2005−2016 Agricultural Biotechnology Facility9,400,000   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 I34,000,000   Avery Point Marine Science Research Center−Phase II 16,682,000  Avery Point Renovation 5,600,000  Babbidge Library0   Balancing Contingency 5,506,834  Beach Hall Renovations  10,000,000 Benton State Art Museum Addition 1,400,0003,000,000 Biobehavioral Complex Replacement  4,000,000 Bishop Renovation  8,000,000 Budds Building Renovation 2,805,000  Business School Renovation 4,803,000  Chemistry Building53,700,000   Commissary Warehouse  1,000,000 Deferred Maintenance/Code/ADA Renovation Lump Sum39,332,000 215,000,000 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 & Telecommunications60,500,000 200,000,000 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  Hartford Relocation Design1,500,000   Hartford Relocation Feasibility Study500,000   Heating Plant Upgrade10,000,000   Hilltop Dormitory New 30,000,000  Hilltop Dormitory Renovations 3,141,000  Ice Rink Enclosure2,616,000   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 I1,000,000   Litchfield Agricultural Center−Phase II 700,000  Manchester Hall Renovation  6,000,000 Mansfield Apartments Renovation2,612,000   Mansfield Training School Improvements 27,614,00029,000,000 Natural History Museum Completion  4,900,000 North Campus Renovation2,654,000   North Campus Renovation Completion 21,049,000  North Hillside Road Completion  11,500,000 North Superblock Site and Utilities8,000,000   Northwest Quadrant Renovation2,001,000   Northwest Quadrant Renovation 15,874,000  Observatory  1,000,000 Old Central Warehouse  18,000,000 Parking Garage #3  15,000,000 Parking Garage − North10,000,000   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  90,000,000 Roadways 10,000,000  School of Business20,000,000   School of Pharmacy/Biology3,856,000   School of Pharmacy/Biology Completion 61,058,000  Shippee/Buckley Renovations 6,156,000  Social Science K Building 20,964,000  South Campus Complex13,127,000   Stamford Campus Improvements  3,000,000 Stamford Downtown Relocation-Phase I45,659,000   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 1A38,000,000   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 Center650,000   Undergraduate Education Center 7,450,000  Underground Steam & Water Upgrade3,500,000   Underground Steam & Water Upgrade Completion 9,000,000  University Programs Building −Phase I8,750,000   University Programs Building −Phase II Visitors Center 300,000  Waring Building Conversion7,888,000   Waterbury Downtown Campus  3,000,000 Waterbury Property Purchase325,000   West Campus Renovations 14,897,000  West Hartford Campus Renovations/Improvements  25,000,000 White Building Renovation2,430,000   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/ADA Renovation Sum − Health Center  50,000,000 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  75,000,000 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 Total − Storrs and Regional Campus Project List  1,043,000,000 Total − Health Center Project List  305,400,000 TOTAL382,000,000868,000,0001,348,400,000
      (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 section 10a-109d and the proceeds of the Special External Gift Fund becoming available to the university pursuant to section 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 section 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 section 10a-109y.

      (P.A. 95-230, S. 5, 45; P.A. 96-244, S. 39, 63; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3, S. 2; P.A. 06-196, S. 72; P.A. 07-108, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7, S. 59.)

      History: P.A. 95-230 effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 96-244 amended Subsec. (a) to change the estimated cost of the Business School renovation from $48,030,000 to $4,803,000, effective July 1, 1996; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 amended Subsec. (a) to revise the list of projects and amounts in Phase II and to add the project list and amounts for Phase III, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subsecs. (c) and (d), effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-108 amended Subsec. (a) to revise list of projects and amounts in Phase III, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 amended Subsec. (a) to extend the end year for Phase III from 2015 to 2016, effective November 2, 2007.