Reference Title: appropriation; regional transportation center

AN ACT
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION CENTER.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Appropriations; purpose; exemption

A. The following sums are appropriated in the following fiscal years from the highway user revenue fund for distribution before the distributions from the fund provided for in title 28, chapter 18, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes:

1. In fiscal year 1999-2000, $300,000 to the department of transportation and $130,000 to the department of public safety.

2. In fiscal year 2000-2001, $4,647,500 to the department of transportation and $1,122,500 to the department of public safety.

B. Monies appropriated by subsection A of this section are for the design, engineering and construction of the Pioneer Park regional transportation service center at Prescott to replace the loss of the use of facilities resulting from restructuring the Highway 69 and Highway 89 interchange.

C. The following donations, acquisitions and contributions shall be required for the projects described in this act:

1. Yavapai county shall donate at least twenty acres of land for the agencies to relocate at Pioneer Park.

2. Yavapai college shall acquire the existing facilities and land owned by the department of transportation and contribute a parcel of right-of-way land for the new highway interchange and interim use of the college's main entrance for agency and public access.

3. The city of Prescott shall provide for property beautification.

4. The department of transportation and the department of public safety shall use the monies appropriated in this act to establish the Pioneer Park regional transportation service center.

D. Any monies received from Yavapai college to purchase land and facilities shall be deposited in the highway user revenue fund.

E. The department of transportation, department of public safety and Yavapai college shall work together to finalize an intergovernmental agreement to transfer, in a timely manner, the land and existing facilities at the current Sheldon Street transportation center.

F. The appropriations made in subsection A of this section are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MAY 19, 1999.

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 19, 1999.