SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

SENATE BILL NO. 949

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled

 

"The state school aid act of 1979,"

 

by amending sections 201, 201a, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208,

 

209, 210, 210a, 212, 213, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223,

 

224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, and 230 (MCL 388.1801, 388.1801a,

 

388.1802, 388.1803, 388.1804, 388.1805, 388.1806, 388.1807,

 

388.1808, 388.1809, 388.1810, 388.1810a, 388.1812, 388.1813,

 

388.1816, 388.1817, 388.1818, 388.1819, 388.1820, 388.1821,

 

388.1822, 388.1823, 388.1824, 388.1825, 388.1826, 388.1827,

 

388.1828, 388.1829, and 388.1830), as added by 2011 PA 62, and by

 

adding sections 202a and 229a; and to repeal acts and parts of

 

acts.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 201. (1) Subject to the conditions set forth in this

 


article, the amounts listed in subsection subsections (2) and (4)

 

are appropriated for community colleges for the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2012, 2013, from the funds indicated in this section.

 

The following is a summary of the appropriations in subsection

 

subsections (2) and (4):

 

     (a) The gross appropriation is $283,880,500.00.

 

$294,130,500.00. After deducting total interdepartmental grants and

 

intradepartmental transfers in the amount of $0.00, the adjusted

 

gross appropriation is $283,880,500.00.$294,130,500.00.

 

     (b) The sources of the adjusted gross appropriation described

 

in subdivision (a) are as follows:

 

     (i) Total federal revenues, $0.00.

 

     (ii) Total local revenues, $0.00.

 

     (iii) Total private revenues, $0.00.

 

     (iv) Total other state restricted revenues,

 

$195,880,500.00.$197,614,100.00.

 

     (v) State general fund/general purpose money,

 

$88,000,000.00.$96,516,400.00.

 

     (2) Subject to subsection (3), the amount appropriated for

 

community college operations is $283,880,500.00,$292,396,900.00,

 

allocated as follows:

 

     (a) Alpena Community College, $4,984,300.00.$5,111,200.00.

 

     (b) Bay de Noc Community College, $5,040,200.00.$5,161,300.00.

 

     (c) Delta College, $13,336,200.00.$13,712,700.00.

 

     (d) Glen Oaks Community College, $2,320,900.00.$2,383,000.00.

 

     (e) Gogebic Community College, $4,140,500.00.$4,233,100.00.

 

     (f) Grand Rapids Community College,

 


$16,649,700.00.$17,054,300.00.

 

     (g) Henry Ford Community College,

 

$20,145,000.00.$20,596,700.00.

 

     (h) Jackson Community College, $11,219,700.00.$11,491,500.00.

 

     (i) Kalamazoo Valley Community College,

 

$11,522,700.00.$11,828,300.00.

 

     (j) Kellogg Community College, $9,047,900.00.$9,289,300.00.

 

     (k) Kirtland Community College, $2,872,900.00.$2,968,300.00.

 

     (l) Lake Michigan College, $4,937,700.00.$5,059,300.00.

 

     (m) Lansing Community College, $28,651,900.00.$29,335,000.00.

 

     (n) Macomb Community College, $30,490,300.00.$31,206,500.00.

 

     (o) Mid Michigan Community College,

 

$4,266,800.00.$4,393,400.00.

 

     (p) Monroe County Community College,

 

$4,094,000.00.$4,223,500.00.

 

     (q) Montcalm Community College, $2,946,800.00.$3,038,500.00.

 

     (r) C.S. Mott Community College,

 

$14,526,400.00.$14,890,400.00.

 

     (s) Muskegon Community College, $8,256,700.00.$8,456,100.00.

 

     (t) North Central Michigan College,

 

$2,886,500.00.$2,979,900.00.

 

     (u) Northwestern Michigan College,

 

$8,430,300.00.$8,624,100.00.

 

     (v) Oakland Community College, $19,455,900.00.$19,977,500.00.

 

     (w) St. Clair County Community College,

 

$6,534,100.00.$6,697,300.00.

 

     (x) Schoolcraft College, $11,477,300.00.$11,800,500.00.

 


     (y) Southwestern Michigan College,

 

$6,143,700.00.$6,269,000.00.

 

     (z) Washtenaw Community College,

 

$11,827,300.00.$12,242,000.00.

 

     (aa) Wayne County Community College,

 

$15,425,900.00.$15,798,500.00.

 

     (bb) West Shore Community College,

 

$2,248,900.00.$2,298,200.00.

 

     (cc) Local strategic value, $1,277,500.00.

 

     (3) The amount appropriated in subsection (2) for community

 

college operations is appropriated from the following:

 

     (a) School State school aid fund, $195,880,500.00.

 

     (b) State general fund/general purpose money,

 

$88,000,000.00.$96,516,400.00.

 

     (4) From the appropriations described in subsection (1), there

 

is appropriated for fiscal year 2012-2013 an amount not to exceed

 

$1,733,600.00 for payments to community colleges from the state

 

school aid fund. A community college that receives money under this

 

subsection shall use that money solely for the purpose of

 

offsetting a portion of the retirement contributions owed by the

 

college for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013. The amount

 

allocated to each community college under this subsection is as

 

follows:

 

     (a) Alpena Community College, $30,400.00.

 

     (b) Bay de Noc Community College, $30,800.00.

 

     (c) Delta College, $81,400.00.

 

     (d) Glen Oaks Community College, $14,200.00.

 


     (e) Gogebic Community College, $25,300.00.

 

     (f) Grand Rapids Community College, $101,700.00.

 

     (g) Henry Ford Community College, $123,000.00.

 

     (h) Jackson Community College, $68,500.00.

 

     (i) Kalamazoo Valley Community College, $70,400.00.

 

     (j) Kellogg Community College, $55,300.00.

 

     (k) Kirtland Community College, $17,500.00.

 

     (l) Lake Michigan College, $30,200.00.

 

     (m) Lansing Community College, $175,000.00.

 

     (n) Macomb Community College, $186,200.00.

 

     (o) Mid Michigan Community College, $26,100.00

 

     (p) Monroe County Community College, $25,000.00.

 

     (q) Montcalm Community College, $18,000.00.

 

     (r) C.S. Mott Community College, $88,700.00.

 

     (s) Muskegon Community College, $50,400.00.

 

     (t) North Central Michigan College, $17,600.00.

 

     (u) Northwestern Michigan College, $51,500.00.

 

     (v) Oakland Community College, $118,800.00.

 

     (w) St. Clair County Community College, $39,900.00.

 

     (x) Schoolcraft College, $70,100.00.

 

     (y) Southwestern Michigan College, $37,500.00.

 

     (z) Washtenaw Community College, $72,200.00.

 

     (aa) Wayne County Community College, $94,200.00.

 

     (bb) West Shore Community College, $13,700.00.

 

     Sec. 201a. It is the intent of the legislature to provide

 

appropriations for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2013

 

2014 for the items listed in section 201. The fiscal year 2012-2013

 


2013-2014 appropriations are anticipated to be the same as those

 

for fiscal year 2011-2012, 2012-2013, except that the amounts will

 

be adjusted for changes in caseload and related costs, federal fund

 

match rates, economic factors, and available revenue. These

 

adjustments will be determined after the January 2012 2013

 

consensus revenue estimating conference.

 

     Sec. 202. The All appropriations authorized under this article

 

are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

     Sec. 202a. As used in this article, "workforce development

 

agency" means the workforce development agency of the Michigan

 

strategic fund.

 

     Sec. 203. Unless otherwise specified, a community college

 

receiving that receives appropriations in section 201 and the

 

workforce development agency shall use the Internet internet to

 

fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail

 

to the recipients identified for each reporting requirement or it

 

may include placement of reports on an Internet internet or

 

Intranet intranet site.

 

     Sec. 204. Funds appropriated in section 201 shall not be used

 

for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or

 

services, or both, are available. Preference should be given to

 

goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable

 

quality. In addition, preference should be given to goods or

 


services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses that are owned and operated by veterans, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality.

 

     Sec. 205. The principal executive officer of each community

 

college receiving that receives appropriations in section 201 shall

 

take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and

 

depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each principal executive officer

 

shall strongly encourage firms businesses with which the community

 

college contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in

 

depressed and deprived communities for services or supplies, or

 

both.

 

     Sec. 206. The funds appropriated in section 201 are

 

appropriated for community colleges with fiscal years ending June

 

30, 2012 2013 and shall be paid out of the state treasury and

 

distributed by the state treasurer to the respective community

 

colleges in 11 monthly installments on the sixteenth of each month,

 

or the next succeeding business day, beginning with October 16,

 

2011. 2012. Each community college shall accrue its July and August

 

2012 2013 payments to its institutional fiscal year ending June 30,

 

2012. 2013. However, if the state budget director determines that a

 

community college fails failed to submit all verified Michigan

 

community colleges activities classification structure data for

 

school year 2010-2011 2011-2012 to the workforce development agency

 

by November 1, 2011, 2012, or failed to submit its longitudinal

 

data system data set for school year 2011-2012 to the center for

 

educational performance and information under section 219, the

 


state treasurer shall withhold the monthly installments shall be

 

withheld from that community college until those data are

 

submitted. The state budget director shall notify the chairs of the

 

house and senate appropriations subcommittees on community colleges

 

at least 10 days before withholding funds from any community

 

college.

 

     Sec. 207. (1) A community college shall pay the employer's

 

contributions to the Michigan public school employees' retirement

 

system created by the public school employees retirement act of

 

1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1408. , as This payment is a

 

condition of receiving funds appropriated under this article.

 

     (2) A community college shall not pay an employer's

 

contribution to more than 1 retirement fund providing benefits for

 

an employee.

 

     Sec. 208. Money A community college shall not use money

 

appropriated in section 201 shall not be used to pay for the

 

construction or maintenance of a self-liquidating project. A

 

community college shall comply with the current use and finance

 

requirements of the joint capital outlay subcommittee (JCOS) for

 

any construction, renovation, or other capital outlay projects

 

pursuant to JCOS policy. The appropriation in section 201 for a

 

community college that fails to comply with JCOS requirements shall

 

be reduced by 1% for each violation.

 

     Sec. 209. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 201, each

 

community college shall develop, post, and maintain, on a user-

 

friendly and publicly accessible Internet site, a comprehensive

 

report categorizing all institutional general fund expenditures

 


made by the community college within a fiscal year. The report

 

shall include institutional general fund expenditure amounts

 

categorized both by each academic unit, administrative unit, or

 

external initiative within the community college and by major

 

expenditure category, including faculty and staff salaries and

 

fringe benefits, facility-related costs, supplies and equipment,

 

contracts, and transfers to and from other community college funds.

 

The report shall also include a list of all employee positions

 

funded partially or wholly through institutional general fund

 

revenue that includes the position title, name, and annual salary

 

or wage amount for each position. The community college shall not

 

provide financial information on its website under this section if

 

doing so would violate a federal or state law, rule, regulation, or

 

guideline that establishes privacy or security standards applicable

 

to that financial information.Within 30 days after the board of a

 

community college adopts its annual operating budget for the

 

following school fiscal year, or after the board adopts a

 

subsequent revision to that budget, the community college shall

 

make all of the following available through a link on its website

 

homepage:

 

     (a) The annual operating budget and subsequent budget

 

revisions.

 

     (b) A link to the most recent "Activities Classification

 

Structure Manual for Michigan Community Colleges".

 

     (c) Links to all of the following for the community college:

 

     (i) The current collective bargaining agreement for each

 

bargaining unit.

 


     (ii) Each health care benefits plan, including, but not limited

 

to, medical, dental, vision, disability, long-term care, or any

 

other type of benefits that would constitute health care services,

 

offered to any bargaining unit or employee of the community

 

college.

 

     (iii) Audits and financial reports for the most recent fiscal

 

year for which they are available.

 

     (iv) A copy of the board of trustees resolution regarding

 

compliance with best practices for the local strategic value

 

component described in section 230(3).

 

     (2) For statewide consistency and public visibility, community

 

colleges must use the icon badge provided by the department of

 

technology, management, and budget consistent with the icon badge

 

developed by the department of education for K-12 school districts.

 

It must appear on the front of each community college's homepage.

 

The size of the icon may be reduced to 150 x 150 pixels. To be in

 

compliance with this section, all data elements defined in this

 

section must be available on the college's homepage by December 31,

 

2012. Each community college shall notify the state budget office

 

when all data elements defined in this section are made available

 

on its website.

 

     (3) The state budget director shall determine whether a

 

community college has complied with this section. The state budget

 

director may withhold a community college's monthly installments

 

described in section 206 until the community college complies with

 

this section. The state budget director shall notify the chairs of

 

the house and senate appropriations subcommittee on community

 


colleges at least 10 days before withholding funds from any

 

community college.

 

     (4) (2) Each community college shall report the following

 

information to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the

 

state budget office by November 15, 2011, 2012, and post that

 

information on the Internet website required under subsection (1):

 

     (a) Budgeted fiscal year 2011-2012 2012-2013 general fund

 

revenue from tuition and fees.

 

     (b) Budgeted fiscal year 2011-2012 2012-2013 general fund

 

revenue from state appropriations.

 

     (c) Budgeted fiscal year 2011-2012 2012-2013 general fund

 

revenue from property taxes.

 

     (d) Budgeted fiscal year 2011-2012 2012-2013 total general

 

fund revenue.

 

     (e) Budgeted fiscal year 2011-2012 2012-2013 total general

 

fund expenditures.

 

     Sec. 210. (1) Recognizing the critical importance of education

 

in strengthening Michigan's workforce, the legislature encourages

 

the state's public community colleges each community college to

 

explore ways of increasing collaboration and cooperation with 4-

 

year universities, particularly in the areas related to training,

 

instruction, and program articulation.

 

     (2) Recognizing the central role of community colleges in

 

responding to local employment needs and challenges, community

 

colleges shall develop and continue efforts to collaborate with

 

local employers and students to identify local employment needs and

 


strategies to meet them.

 

     (3) Community colleges are encouraged to collaborate with each

 

other on innovations to identify and meet local employment needs.

 

     Sec. 210a. (1) A committee shall be created to develop a

 

process to improve the transferability of core college courses

 

between community colleges and public universities on a statewide

 

basis. Building off of the Michigan association of college

 

registrars and academic officers agreement and existing

 

articulation agreements in place between individual institutions,

 

the committee shall work to develop equivalency standards of core

 

college courses and identify equivalent courses offered by the

 

institutions.

 

     (2) The committee shall be composed of the following:

 

     (a) Ten Five representatives from community colleges selected

 

by the Michigan community college association.

 

     (b) Ten Five representatives from public universities selected

 

by the presidents council, state universities of Michigan.

 

     (c) One member of the house of representatives selected by the

 

speaker of the house.

 

     (d) One member of the house of representatives selected by the

 

minority leader of the house of representatives.

 

     (e) One member of the senate selected by the senate majority

 

leader.

 

     (f) One member of the senate selected by the senate minority

 

leader.

 

     (3) The committee shall submit an interim project status

 

report reports to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees

 


on community colleges and higher education, the senate and house

 

fiscal agencies, and the state budget director by March 1,

 

2012.2013 and September 1, 2013.

 

     Sec. 212. It is the intent of the legislature to encourage

 

community college districts to evaluate and pursue efficiency and

 

cost-containment measures that maximize state funding. Community

 

colleges shall identify practices that increase efficiencies,

 

including, but not limited to, establishing joint ventures,

 

consolidating services, utilizing program collaborations,

 

maximizing educational benefits through optimal class sizes and

 

frequency of course offerings, increasing web-based instruction,

 

eliminating low-enrollment and high-cost instructional programs,

 

using self-insurance, practicing energy conservation, and utilizing

 

group purchasing. Efficiency efforts Community colleges shall also

 

include reviewing review proposed capital outlay projects to

 

increase coordination and utilization of new facilities, renovation

 

projects, and technology improvements.

 

     Sec. 213. It is the intent of the legislature that community

 

colleges work with public universities in the state to implement

 

statewide reverse transfer agreements to increase the number of

 

students that are awarded credentials of value upon completion of

 

the necessary credits. In doing so, the institutions should work

 

collaboratively and cooperatively to remove administrative barriers

 

that result in understating the academic attainment of Michigan's

 

citizens. It is the intent of the legislature that by August 1,

 

2012, These statewide agreements be in place between community

 

colleges and public universities that shall enable students who

 


have earned a significant number of credits at a community college

 

and transfer to a baccalaureate-granting institution before

 

completing a degree to transfer transferred the credits earned at

 

the baccalaureate institution back to the community college in

 

order to be awarded a credential of value.

 

     Sec. 216. (1) It is the intent of the legislature that the

 

senate and house appropriations subcommittees on community

 

colleges, together with the Michigan community college association

 

and other interested stakeholders, review any statutory mandates

 

imposed on community colleges, including those identified by the

 

legislative commission on statutory mandates established under

 

former chapter 7B of the legislative council act, 1986 PA 268, and

 

determine whether if those mandates are necessary for the health

 

and safety of students; are essential to the academic integrity of

 

the community colleges; exceed any applicable federal requirements;

 

are superfluous to the core academic programs of the community

 

colleges; and materially impact local control and governance of the

 

colleges.

 

     (2) The senate and house appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges shall review the estimated costs and benefits of

 

each statutory mandate reviewed under subsection (1) and shall

 

report their findings to the state budget director.

 

     Sec. 217. Unless otherwise specifically stated, all data items

 

used in determining state aid in this article are as defined in the

 

"2001 Manual for Uniform Financial Reporting, Michigan Public

 

Community Colleges", which shall be the basis for reporting data,

 

and the "Activities Classification Structure Manual for Michigan

 


Community Colleges", as amended, which shall be used to document

 

financial needs of the community colleges.

 

     Sec. 218. A community college Community colleges shall not

 

include in the enrollment data reported for determining state aid

 

under this article any student credit hours or student contact

 

hours for a student incarcerated in a Michigan penal institution.

 

Exclusion of these students is intended to avoid the payment of

 

state aid under this article for the same individuals for whom

 

reimbursement is provided by the state correctional system.

 

     Sec. 219. A community college receiving funds in section 201

 

shall cooperate with the state's efforts to establish a statewide

 

P-20 education longitudinal data system to comply with the state

 

fiscal stabilization fund provisions of the American recovery and

 

reinvestment act of 2009, Public Law 111-5.By June 30 of each year,

 

each community college shall provide its longitudinal data system

 

data set for the preceding academic year to the center for

 

educational performance and information for inclusion in the

 

statewide P-20 education longitudinal data system described in

 

section 94a.

 

     Sec. 220. (1) The auditor general or a certified public

 

accountant appointed by the auditor general may conduct performance

 

audits of community colleges as the auditor general considers

 

necessary.

 

     (2) Not more than Within 60 days after an audit report is

 

released by the office of the auditor general, the principal

 

executive officer of the community college that was audited shall

 

submit to the house and senate appropriations committees, the house

 


and senate fiscal agencies, the workforce development agency, the

 

auditor general, and the state budget director a plan to comply

 

with audit recommendations. The plan shall contain projected dates

 

and resources required, if any, to achieve compliance with the

 

audit recommendations, or a documented explanation of the college's

 

noncompliance with the audit recommendations concerning the matters

 

on which the audited community college and office of the auditor

 

general disagree.

 

     Sec. 221. (1) A community college shall retain certified class

 

summaries, class lists, registration documents, and student

 

transcripts that are consistent with the taxonomy of courses. For

 

each enrollment period during the fiscal year, these certified

 

documents shall identify clearly by course the number of in-

 

district and out-of-district student credit and contact hours. The

 

class summaries and class lists shall be consistent with each other

 

and shall include the course prefix and numbers, course title,

 

course credit and contact hours, credit and contact hours generated

 

by each student, and activity classifications consistent with the

 

taxonomy. An auditable process shall be used by the community

 

college to determine the unduplicated head count for in-district

 

students, out-of-district students, and prisoners for each

 

enrollment period during the fiscal year.

 

     (2) Contracts A community college shall retain all contracts

 

between the community college and agencies that reimburse the

 

community college for the costs of instruction shall be retained

 

for audit purposes.

 

     Sec. 222. Each community college shall have an annual audit of

 


all income and expenditures performed by an independent auditor and

 

shall furnish the independent auditor's management letter and an

 

annual audited accounting of all general and current funds income

 

and expenditures including audits of college foundations to the

 

members of the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on

 

community colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

auditor general, the workforce development agency, and the state

 

budget director before November 15 , 2011. of each year. If a

 

community college fails to furnish the audit materials, the monthly

 

state aid installments shall be withheld from that college until

 

the information is submitted. All reporting shall conform to the

 

requirements set forth in the "2001 Manual for Uniform Financial

 

Reporting, Michigan Public Community Colleges". It is the intent of

 

the legislature that a community college shall make the information

 

the community college is required to provide under this section

 

available to the public on its Internet internet website.

 

     Sec. 223. Each community college shall report the following to

 

the workforce development agency no later than November 1 , 2011:of

 

each year:

 

     (a) The number of North American Indian students enrolled each

 

term for the previous fiscal year, using guidelines and procedures

 

developed by the workforce development agency and the Michigan

 

commission on Indian affairs.department of civil rights.

 

     (b) The number of North American Indian tuition waivers

 

granted each term, and the monetary value of the waivers for the

 

previous fiscal year.

 

     Sec. 224. Upon request, a community college shall inform

 


interested Michigan high schools of the aggregate academic status

 

of its students for the prior previous academic year, in a manner

 

prescribed by the Michigan community college association and in

 

cooperation with the Michigan association of secondary school

 

principals. Community colleges shall cooperate with the center for

 

educational performance and information to design and implement a

 

systematic approach for accomplishing this work.

 

     Sec. 225. Each community college shall report to the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies, the state budget director, and the

 

workforce development agency by August 31, 2011, 2012, the tuition

 

and mandatory fees paid by a full-time in-district student and a

 

full-time out-of-district student as established by the college

 

governing board for the 2010-2011 2011-2012 academic year. This

 

report should also include the annual cost of attendance based on a

 

full-time course load of 30 credits. Each community college shall

 

also report any revisions to the reported 2010-2011 2011-2012

 

academic year tuition and mandatory fees adopted by the college

 

governing board to the house and senate fiscal agencies, the state

 

budget director, and the workforce development agency within 15

 

days of being adopted.

 

     Sec. 226. Each community college shall report to the workforce

 

development agency the numbers and type of associate degrees and

 

other certificates awarded during the previous fiscal year. The

 

report shall be made not later than November 15 , 2011.of each

 

year.

 

     Sec. 227. Funds A community college shall not use funds

 

appropriated in section 201 shall not be used to enter into a lease

 


for, or to purchase, a vehicle assembled or manufactured outside of

 

the United States if competitively priced and comparable quality

 

vehicles made in the state of Michigan or elsewhere in the United

 

States of America are available.

 

     Sec. 228. A community college shall not take disciplinary

 

action against an employee for communicating with a member of the

 

legislature or his or her the legislator's staff.

 

     Sec. 229. It is the intent of the legislature that each

 

community college receiving that receives an appropriation in

 

section 201 include in its admission application process a specific

 

question as to whether an applicant for admission is a veteran, an

 

active member of the military, a member of the national guard or

 

military reserves, or the spouse or dependent of a veteran, active

 

member of the military, or member of the national guard or military

 

reserves, in order to more quickly identify potential educational

 

assistance available to that applicant. As used in this section,

 

"veteran" means an honorably discharged veteran entitled to

 

educational assistance under the provisions of section 5003 of the

 

post-911 veterans educational assistance act of 2008, title V of

 

Public Law 110-252, 38 USC 3301 to 3324.

 

     Sec. 229a. Included in the fiscal year 2012-2013

 

appropriations for the department of technology, management, and

 

budget are appropriations to provide funding for the state share of

 

costs for previously constructed capital projects for community

 

colleges. Those appropriations for state building authority rent

 

represent additional state general fund support for community

 

colleges, and the following is an estimate of the amount of that

 


support to each community college:

 

     (a) Alpena Community College, $428,100.00.

 

     (b) Bay de Noc Community College, $618,000.00.

 

     (c) Delta College, $2,610,000.00.

 

     (d) Glen Oaks Community College, $123,000.00.

 

     (e) Gogebic Community College, $60,000.00.

 

     (f) Grand Rapids Community College, $1,675,000.00.

 

     (g) Henry Ford Community College, $1,110,000.00.

 

     (h) Jackson Community College, $1,563,000.00.

 

     (i) Kalamazoo Valley Community College, $1,467,000.00.

 

     (j) Kellogg Community College, $520,000.00.

 

     (k) Kirtland Community College, $363,300.00.

 

     (l) Lake Michigan College, $340,000.00.

 

     (m) Lansing Community College, $384,000.00.

 

     (n) Macomb Community College, $1,313,100.00.

 

     (o) Mid Michigan Community College, $915,000.00.

 

     (p) Monroe County Community College, $1,355,000.00.

 

     (q) Montcalm Community College, $756,000.00.

 

     (r) C.S. Mott Community College, $1,803,000.00.

 

     (s) Muskegon Community College, $198,000.00.

 

     (t) Northwestern Michigan College, $1,305,000.00.

 

     (u) Oakland Community College, $465,000.00.

 

     (v) St. Clair County Community College, $356,100.00.

 

     (w) Schoolcraft College, $1,546,100.00.

 

     (x) Southwestern Michigan College, $530,600.00.

 

     (y) Washtenaw Community College, $1,993,000.00.

 

     (z) Wayne County Community College, $1,890,000.00.

 


     (aa) West Shore Community College, $577,000.00.

 

     Sec. 230. (1) It is the intent of the legislature that the

 

recommendations and performance measures developed by the

 

performance indicators task force formed pursuant to under section

 

242 of 2005 PA 154 be reviewed and more fully implemented for

 

distribution of state funding to community colleges in future

 

years. Specifically, it is the intent of the legislature that the

 

performance indicators task force review and implement 1 or more

 

measurable data items for the local strategic value indicator and

 

review and implement 1 or more measurable data items for an

 

administrative cost formula component.

 

     (2) Any additional funding provided to community college

 

operations under section 201(2) in fiscal year 2012-2013 that

 

exceeds the amounts appropriated for operations in fiscal year

 

2011-2012 is allocated solely for the purpose of offsetting a

 

portion of the retirement contributions owed by the college for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2013. The additional funding is

 

distributed based on the following formula:

 

     (a) Allocated proportionate to fiscal year 2011-2012 base

 

appropriations, 50%.

 

     (b) Based on contact hour equated students, 10%.

 

     (c) Based on administrative costs, 7.5%.

 

     (d) Based on a weighted degree formula as provided for in the

 

2006 recommendations of the performance indicators task force,

 

17.5%.

 

     (e) Based on the local strategic value component, as developed

 

in cooperation with the Michigan community college association and

 


described in subsection (3), 15%.

 

     (3) The appropriation in section 201(2)(cc) for local

 

strategic value shall be allocated to each community college that

 

certifies to the state budget director, through a board of trustees

 

resolution on or before November 1, 2012, that the college has met

 

4 out of 5 best practices listed in each category described in

 

subsection (4). The resolution shall provide specifics as to how

 

the community college meets each best practice measure within each

 

category. One-third of funding available under the strategic value

 

component shall be allocated to each category described in

 

subsection (4). Amounts distributed under local strategic value

 

shall be on a proportionate basis to each college's fiscal year

 

2011-2012 operations funding. Payments to community colleges that

 

qualify for local strategic value funding shall be distributed with

 

the November installment payment described in section 206.

 

     (4) For purposes of subsection (3), the following categories

 

of best practices reflect functional activities of community

 

colleges that have strategic value to the local communities and

 

regional economies:

 

     (a) For Category A, economic development and business or

 

industry partnerships, the following:

 

     (i) The community college has active partnerships with local

 

employers including hospitals and health care providers.

 

     (ii) The community college provides customized on-site training

 

for area companies, employees, or both.

 

     (iii) The community college supports entrepreneurship through a

 

small business assistance center or other training or consulting

 


activities targeted toward small businesses.

 

     (iv) The community college supports technological advancement

 

through industry partnerships, incubation activities, or operation

 

of a Michigan technical education center or other advanced

 

technology center.

 

     (v) The community college has active partnerships with local

 

or regional workforce and economic development agencies.

 

     (b) For Category B, educational partnerships, the following:

 

     (i) The community college has active partnerships with regional

 

high schools, intermediate school districts, and career-tech

 

centers to provide instruction through dual enrollment, direct

 

credit, middle college, or academy programs.

 

     (ii) The community college hosts, sponsors, or participates in

 

enrichment programs for area K-12 students, such as college days,

 

summer or after-school programming, or science Olympiad.

 

     (iii) The community college provides, supports, or participates

 

in programming to promote successful transitions to college for

 

traditional age students, including grant programs such as talent

 

search, upward bound, or other activities to promote college

 

readiness in area high schools and community centers.

 

     (iv) The community college provides, supports, or participates

 

in programming to promote successful transitions to college for new

 

or reentering adult students, such as adult basic education, GED

 

preparation, GED testing, or recruiting, advising, or orientation

 

activities specific to adults.

 

     (v) The community college has active partnerships with

 

regional 4-year colleges and universities to promote successful

 


transfer, such as articulation, 2+2, or reverse transfer agreements

 

or operation of a university center.

 

     (c) For Category C, community services, the following:

 

     (i) The community college provides continuing education

 

programming for leisure, wellness, personal enrichment, or

 

professional development.

 

     (ii) The community college operates or sponsors opportunities

 

for community members to engage in activities that promote leisure,

 

wellness, cultural or personal enrichment such as community sports

 

teams, theater or musical ensembles, or artist guilds.

 

     (iii) The community college operates public facilities to

 

promote cultural, educational, or personal enrichment for community

 

members, such as libraries, computer labs, performing arts centers,

 

museums, art galleries, or television or radio stations.

 

     (iv) The community college operates public facilities to

 

promote leisure or wellness activities for community members,

 

including gymnasiums, athletic fields, tennis courts, fitness

 

centers, hiking or biking trails, or natural areas.

 

     (v) The community college promotes, sponsors, or hosts

 

community service activities for students, staff, or community

 

members.

 

     Enacting section 1. In accordance with section 30 of article

 

IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending from

 

state sources for community colleges for fiscal year 2012-2013

 

under article II is estimated at $294,130,500.00 and the amount of

 

that state spending from state sources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2012-2013 is estimated at

 


$294,130,500.00.

 

     Enacting section 2. Sections 211 and 214 of the state school

 

aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1811 and 388.1814, are

 

repealed.

 

     Enacting section 3. This amendatory act takes effect October

 

1, 2012.