MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1997 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Horhn, Dearing, Woodfield, Canon, Furniss, Posey, Cuevas

Senate Bill 2441

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, ACTING THROUGH THE BUREAU OF BUILDING, GROUNDS AND REAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING FACILITIES AT VARIOUS STATE PARKS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES, FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Department of Finance and Administration, acting through the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management for the purposes and in the amounts hereinafter set forth in Section 2, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998

$ 967,000.00.

SECTION 2. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 1, the following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are authorized to be expended for furniture and equipment, including draperies and bedspreads, for the new facilities authorized to be constructed, in Senate Bill No. ____, Laws of 1997, at various state parks as hereinafter described:

PHASE I

Buccaneer State Park - cabins $ 48,000.00

John Kyle State Park - lodge rooms 80,000.00

Lake Lowndes State Park - cabins 16,000.00

Lefleur's Bluff State Park - cabins 24,000.00

Percy Quin State Park - dining/kitchen 150,000.00

Tishomingo State Park - cabins 16,000.00

Winterville Mounds State Park - picnic pavilion 5,000.00

TOTAL PHASE I $ 339,000.00

PHASE II

Lake Lincoln State Park - cabins $ 16,000.00

Legion State Park - picnic pavilion 5,000.00

Natchez State Park - group camp 282,000.00

Percy Quin State Park - lodge rooms 200,000.00

Roosevelt State Park - lodge rooms 80,000.00

TOTAL PHASE II $ 583,000.00

PHASE III

Buccaneer State Park - picnic pavilion $ 25,000.00

John Kyle State Park - picnic pavilion 5,000.00

Lake Lowndes State Park - picnic pavilion 5,000.00

Trace State Park - picnic pavilion 5,000.00

Wall Doxey State Park - picnic pavilion 5,000.00

TOTAL PHASE III $ 45,000.00

GRAND TOTAL $ 967,000.00

SECTION 3. The Department of Finance and Administration, acting through the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management, is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to receive, budget and expend any State, local or other source funds designated for supplemental funding in connection with the expenditure of funds appropriated by this act.

SECTION 4. The money herein appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers, in the manner provided by law.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1997.