MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 2271

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 Community 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]] such decision shall be
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 an amount
determined either by multiplying the total construction
costs, including site acquisition, by the percentage
equal to the State percentage share of basic current
expenses for the county or City of Baltimore, calculated,
pursuant to Section 128A(c) (4) of Article 77 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and
1973 Supplement), 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