Spectrum - Volume 17 Issue 19 February 9, 1995 - PROPOSED AMENDMENTS: 1995 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS: 1995 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Spectrum Volume 17 Issue 19 - February 9, 1995

		Amendment	House	Senate
University Relations
	Equine Medical Center	$800,000		400,000
	Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement	700,000	500,000	600,000
	Commonwealth Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics Information and Communication Science and Technology	1,500,000	204,078
	Virginia Water Resources Research Center	75,000
	Environmental and Occupational Safety Issues	583,000
Cooperative Extension/Agriculture Experiment Station Division
	Cooperative Extension and Agriculture Experiment Station
	* FY94 Reductions to CE and AES	2,196,000
	* Cooperative Extension	7,334,830	7,334,830	5,338,016
	* Agriculture Experiment Station	4,898,711	4,898,711	4,898,711
	Seafood Research	145,700	145,700	145,700
		14,575,241	12,379,241	10,382,427
Language Amendments
	Horse Racing and Pari-mutuel Betting Language
Capital Outlay (1)
	Planning for Advanced Communication and Information Technology Center (1)	550,000		550,000
	Planning for Upper Quad Conversion	1,100,000
	Alternate Processor for Infectious Waste Disposal (1)	848,000	1,698,000	1,698,000
	Athletics Facilities Addition (1)	4,750,000	4,750,000	4,750,000
Submitted on Behalf of Virginia Tech
	Reynolds Homestead		25,000	25,000
	Principal Assessment -- Regional Assessment Center		26,000
	Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Study		50,000
	Minority Agriculture Scholarships			50,000
	Restore General Fund Support			550,000
	Reduce General Fund to reflect new NGF revenue		-507,000
State-wide Issues
	Faculty salaries		1,063,580	1,063,580
	Classified salaries (2)
	* Central Fund--208		-264,776	264,776
	* Central Fund--229		-189,513	189,513
	Restoration of 1/2 of prior GF reductions (3)	See Footnote 3
	Maintenance Reserve (4)			866,814

(1) All funding for capital projects is non-general fund support.
(2) The Senate fully funded salary increases; the House reduced our General Fund budget to fund the salary increase through the Central Fund.
(3) If the state realizes revenue growth in excess of $32.8 million more than the current revenue forecast, the state would restore 50 percent of the loss in General Fund support experienced by higher education, for FY96 as compared to FY95. This would restore $7.35 million to higher education; Virginia Tech's share of this restoration would be $1,266,572 in FY96.
(4) $6,080,000 is restored to maintenance reserve. Virginia Tech will receive $866,814 of this amount; this is the amount reduced in the Budget Bill.