SENATE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 131

with Senate committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: JUNE 12, 1997

      The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee reports favorably Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 131 with amendments.

      Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 131, as amended, approves the "New Jersey State House Dome Restoration and Renovation Project" and the "Labor Building Exterior Recladding and Curtain Wall Replacement Project" as proposed by the New Jersey Building Authority. This approval is required by the provisions of the "New Jersey Building Authority Act."

      The resolution also expresses the sense of the Legislature with regard to the financing and management of Building Authority projects.

      In addition, the resolution expresses the sentiment of the Legislature that the Building Authority redirect for the planning and design of two new juvenile offender secure-care facilities those bond proceeds remaining from the State Building Revenue Bonds, 1994 Series that will not be expended for the cost of the acquisition and construction of South Woods State Prison (the Bridgeton Prison Project).

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:

      The committee amended the resolution to express the sentiment of the Legislature and to urge the State Building Authority to redirect for the planning and design of two new juvenile offender secure-care facilities those bond proceeds remaining from the State Building Revenue Bonds, 1994 Series that will not be expended for the cost of the acquisition and construction of South Woods State Prison (the Bridgeton Prison Project).

FISCAL IMPACT:

      This concurrent resolution approves the "New Jersey State House Dome Restoration and Renovation Project" and the "Labor Building Exterior Recladding and Curtain Wall Replacement Project" as proposed by the New Jersey Building Authority.