Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10a-109e

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 10a-109e - UConn 2000 infrastructure improvement program

(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- 2031
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 and Renovation Lump Sum and Utility, Administrative and Support Facilities	39,332,000		863,500,000
Deferred Maintenance and 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 and Telecommunications	60,500,000		470,000,000
Equipment, Library
Collections and 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 and New Life Sciences Building			403,500,000
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
Harry A. Gampel Pavilion and Hugh S. Greer Field House			160,000,000
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 and Demolition		17,000,000	25,000,000
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 and Water Upgrade	3,500,000
Underground Steam and 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 and 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			3,196,000,000
Total - Health Center Project List			786,300,000
TOTAL	382,000,000	868,000,000	4,007,300,000

(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 section 10a-109d and the proceeds of the Special External Gift Fund becoming available to the university pursuant to section 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 section 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 section 10a-109y.

(e) Until such time as the State Bond Commission allocates the bonds authorized pursuant to section 10a-109gg for the UConn health network initiatives, the university shall not expend any funds authorized by subdivision (10) of subsection (a) of section 10a-109d, subsection (a) of this section or subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 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 section 10a-109x.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10a-109e

( P.A. 95-230 , S. 5 , 45 ; P.A. 96-244 , S. 39 , 63 ; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-3 , S. 2 ; P.A. 06-196 , S. 72 ; P.A. 07-108 , S. 5 ; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-7 , S. 59 ; P.A. 10-104 , S. 4 , 5 ; P.A. 11-75 , S. 4 ; P.A. 13-233 , S. 5 ; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 , S. 231 ; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-4 , S. 245 ; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 , S. 442 .)

Amended by P.A. 24-0151,S. 20 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2024.

Amended by P.A. 21-0002, S. 480 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Special Session, eff. 7/1/2021.

Amended by P.A. 21-0111, S. 97 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2021.

Amended by P.A. 17-0002, S. 442 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2017 Special Session, eff. 10/31/2017.

Amended by P.A. 16-0004, S. 245 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2016 Special Session, eff. 7/1/2016.

Amended by P.A. 15-0001, S. 231 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2015 Special Session, eff. 7/1/2015.