(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
2005-2027

       
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

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(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.