MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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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 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 and
development, 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 and development,
whichever is the greater amount, subject to the
limitation that the State may share in these total costs
of construction and/or site acquisition and development
up to but not in excess of $8,000 times the proposed
capacity of the college in number of students, the
eligible State share to be calculated as follows: $6,000
times the proposed capacity of the college, less the
total costs of projects at that college approved by the
Board of Public Works prior to the effective date of this
act, the result of this calculation to be multiplied by a
factor of $8,000 divided by $6,000.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That all
proceeds received from any county or the city of