BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. The South Dakota Building Authority may contract for the construction, completion, furnishing, equipping, and maintaining of, including heating, air conditioning, plumbing, water, sewer, electric facilities, sidewalks, parking, landscaping, architectural and engineering services, and such other services or actions as may be required to construct, classroom facilities at the University Center in Sioux Falls to replace facilities leased from the Sioux Falls School District, at the estimated cost of ten million five hundred thirty thousand one hundred seventy-two dollars. The facilities may be erected as freestanding buildings, as additions to existing buildings, or as a combination of buildings and additions, but the aggregate additional space at the University Center in Sioux Falls authorized by this Act may not exceed fifty thousand square feet.
Section 2. The Building Authority may finance up to eight million nine hundred seventy thousand dollars of the construction costs through the issuance of revenue bonds, in accordance with this Act and chapter 5-12.
Section 3. There is hereby appropriated the sum of one million five hundred sixty thousand one hundred seventy-two dollars ($1,560,172) of other fund expenditure authority for the construction authorized in section 1 of this Act, payable from funds received from the Sioux Falls School District in consideration of the Board of Regents' release of a leasehold to a facility at Southeast Technical Institute.
Section 4. The Building Authority and the Board of Regents may accept, transfer, and expend any property or funds obtained for these purposes from federal sources, gifts, contributions, or any
source other than general funds, all of which shall comprise a special fund for the project authorized
in this Act and all moneys deposited into that fund are hereby appropriated to the construction
authorized by this Act.
Section 5. No indebtedness, bond, or obligation incurred or created under the authority of this
Act may be or may become a lien, charge, or liability against the State of South Dakota, nor against
the property or funds of the State of South Dakota within the meaning of the Constitution or statutes
of the state.
Section 6. The Board of Regents may make and enter into a lease agreement with the Building
Authority and make rental payments under the terms thereof, pursuant to chapter 5-12, from the
higher education facilities fund for the purposes of this Act.
Section 7. Expenditure authority may be increased based on the receipt of grants or donations
received pursuant to this Act. However, no adjustment to any cost estimate may exceed one hundred
twenty-five percent of the authorized expenditure authority stated in section 1 of this Act. No
increase in gross square footage authorized by section 1 of this Act may exceed ten percent. Any
increase in gross square footage may only be made to accommodate design changes needed to
comply with building code requirements, and to address unforeseeable structural, subsoil, or
environmental conditions.
Section 8. The design and construction of the facility authorized in this Act shall be under the
general supervision of the Bureau of Administration as provided in chapter 5-14. The commissioner
of the Bureau of Administration and the executive director of the Board of Regents shall approve
vouchers, and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.
Section 9. For purposes of this Act, the term, gross square footage, means the sum of all areas
on all floors of a building included within the outside faces of the building's exterior walls, including
floor penetration areas, however insignificant, for circulation and shaft areas that connect one floor
to another as computed by physically measuring or scaling measurements from the outside faces of
exterior walls, disregarding cornices, pilaster, buttresses, or any other features that extend beyond
the wall faces. The term includes excavated basement area; mezzanines and attics; garages; multiple
floor parking structures; enclosed porches, inner or outer balconies whether walled or not, if the
balconies are utilized for operational functions; and corridors whether walled or not, if the corridors
are within the outside face lines of the building, to the extent of the roof drip line and the footprints
of stairways, elevator shafts, and ducts on each floor through which the corridors pass. The term does
not include open areas such as unenclosed parking lots, playing fields, courts, and light wells, clear
span areas not exceeding three feet in height, or portions of upper floors eliminated by rooms or
lobbies that rise about single-floor height.
Section 10. The Board of Regents shall file its plan to provide for the operation and the
maintenance and repair expenses related to the project authorized in this Act, with the special interim
committee created in § 4-8A-2, no later than November 1, 2010.
An Act to authorize the Board of Regents and the Building Authority to contract for construction of classroom facilities at the University Center in Sioux Falls to replace facilities leased from the Sioux Falls School District, and to make an appropriation therefor.
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I certify that the attached Act originated in the
SENATE as Bill No. 106
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Secretary of the Senate ____________________________
President of the Senate
Attest:
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Secretary of the Senate
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Attest:
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Chief Clerk
Senate Bill No. 106 File No. ____ Chapter No. ______ |
Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________ ,
20____ at ____________ M.
By _________________________
for the Governor
The attached Act is hereby
approved this ________ day of
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Governor STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, ss.
Office of the Secretary of State
Filed ____________ , 20___
____________________________ Secretary of State
By _________________________ |
