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Budget Amendments - HB30 (Floor Approved)

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DGS: Commonwealth Courts Building

Item C-2 #1h

Item C-2 #1h

First Year - FY2023 Second Year - FY2024
Administration
Department of General Services FY2023 $22,500,000 FY2024 $0 GF

Language
Page 529, line 39, strike "$0" and insert "$22,500,000".

Page 529, strike lines 39 through 43 and insert:

"A.  Out of the amounts appropriated to this item, $4,000,000 in the first year from the general fund is provided to supplement planning funds for the capital project titled "New Construction/Renovation: Commonwealth Courts Building" (18537), originally authorized in Item C-1.30, Chapter 552, 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. The planning scope for this project is hereby amended to include space to accommodate the expanded Virginia Court of Appeals. The scope of this capital project includes demolition and new construction of the Pocahontas Building east tower and renovation of the west tower.

B. Out of the amounts appropriated to this item, $18,500,000 the first year from the general fund is provided to support costs related to the relocation of the Virginia Commonwealth University computer center located in the Pocahontas Building at 900 East Main Street. The funds are provided to the Department of General Services to provide financial support to the university for costs associated with hardware, software, network infrastructure, cabling, and other information technology infrastructure needs to have a new computer center on the university campus operational by December 2023.  The university is responsible for all other costs associated with the relocation and shall be fully vacated from the Pocahontas Building by December 31, 2023 to enable the renovation of the facility into the future site of the Virginia Supreme Court and Virginia Court of Appeals."



Explanation

(This amendment provides $22,500,000 of general fund appropriation in the first year for an existing project to renovate the Pocahontas Building as the future site for the Virginia Supreme Court and Virginia Court of Appeals. Of the funding provided, $4,000,000 is to address the amended planning scope related to the recent expansion of the Virginia Court of Appeals and $18,500,000 is to assist Virginia Commonwealth University with the relocation of its data center from the Pocahontas Building to another location on university property. This amendment also renames the project to better reflect that the future facility will house both the Virginia Supreme Court and Virginia Court of Appeals.)