Marvin Mandel, Governor                         957

the financing of the construction of public junior or community
college buildings and facilities, and to supplement the cost of the
acquisition of such real estate or interests in lands as may be re-
quired in connection therewith by each of the counties in this State,
and by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore upon the following
terms and conditions:

(a)    Whenever any one or more counties or Baltimore City desires
to participate in the financial assistance which is provided for under
the terms and conditions of this Act, the county commissioners,
county council, or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, thereof
shall file a petition with the State Board for Community Colleges,
with such information as the State Board for Community Colleges
shall require, together with complete plans for each project for
which financial assistance is desired.

(b)    Upon receipt of the petition, the State Board for Com-
munity Colleges shall make a written finding of fact addressed to
the Board of Public Works, in the form of a recommendation to
that Board advising it which of the requests for financial assistance
made by any of the counties or by the City of Baltimore, should be
allowed and which should be denied. In making the finding of fact, the
State Board for Community Colleges, at the request of the Board of
Public Works will determine a priority of need for public junior or
community colleges as between any one or more counties in the State
and the City of Baltimore. No grant of financial assistance will be
allowed until such grant has been finally ratified and approved by
the Board of Public Works, which will certify the allocation of
State funds to the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller who
will issue his warrant on the Treasurer of the State to make such
funds available to the county or city when needed for construction
of the project. The decision of the Board of Public Works in this
regard will be made in such form as the Board deems advisable
and proper and it is final and conclusive upon all parties concerned.

(c)    The amount of financial assistance granted to any one or more
counties or to the City of Baltimore under the terms and conditions
of this Act for any public junior or community college project shall
be and AN amount determined either by multiplying the total con-
struction costs, including site acquisition, by the percentage as
fixed in Section 129(2) in Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), as the same may be amended
from time to time or by an amount not to exceed one-half of the
total construction costs including site acquisition, whichever is the
greater amount, subject to the limitation that where these total
costs of construction and/or site acquisition exceed $6,000.00 times
the proposed capacity of the college in number of students, the
State shall not share in that portion of these costs which are in
excess of $6,000.00 times the proposed capacity.

Sec 6. And be it further enacted, That all proceeds received
from any county or the City of Baltimore under any agreement,
entered into with such county or the City of Baltimore by the State
Board for Community Colleges on behalf of the State of Maryland
under the provisions of Section 5 of this Act, shall become a part
of the Annuity Bond Fund and shall be applied to the debt service
requirements of the State.