NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 582

HOUSE BILL 573

AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE TWO CAMPUSES OF THE GOVERNOR MOREHEAD SCHOOL INTO THE ASHE AVENUE, RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, CAMPUS.

Whereas, the Governor Morehead School consists of two campuses, one on Garner Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, serving approximately 86 deaf children (the remainder being blind), the second on Ashe Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina, serving all blind students and no deaf students; and

Whereas, the State has in full operation two schools for the deaf, one in Morganton and one in Wilson; and

Whereas, a new school for the deaf is presently under construction in Greensboro; and

Whereas, the few deaf students at the Garner Road campus could be transferred to the other State schools for the deaf; and

Whereas, the board of directors of the Governor Morehead School has gone on record favoring a consolidation of the present two campuses into the Ashe Street Campus; and

Whereas, it is estimated that a consolidation of the two campuses would save the taxpayers of North Carolina in excess of two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000) annually and at the same time increase the advantages afforded the blind children of the State; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  No later than July 1, 1977, the two campuses which presently serve the Governor Morehead School shall be consolidated and merged into the Ashe Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina, campus.

Sec. 2.  Upon consolidation of the Governor Morehead School into the Ashe Avenue campus, all deaf children currently enrolled in the Governor Morehead School shall be transferred to the other schools operated by the State for the deaf and the Governor Morehead School shall no longer be responsible for providing educational benefits for deaf children.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of May, 1973.