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An Act To Save the Marine Technology Center and Strengthen Maine’s Boatbuilding Workforce
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM - BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MAINE
 
Maine Community College System - Board of Trustees 0556
 
Initiative: Appropriates funds for the Marine Technology Center of Washington County Community College, to ensure the requisite core level of staffing at the center; to allow the center to deliver boatbuilding training at various sites along the Maine coast; and to subsidize the cost of planning and delivering a statewide expansion of the registered apprenticeship program and customized training of existing workers.
 	 	 	
 GENERAL FUND 	 2005-06 	 2006-07 	
All Other
	$0	$433,877	
 	 	 	
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$433,877	
 
SUMMARY
This bill appropriates funds for the following purposes for the Marine Technology Center of Washington County Community College, or “MTC”:
1. To ensure the core level of staffing necessary to maintain a sustainable and world-class boatbuilding program at the MTC;
2. To allow the MTC to deliver boatbuilding training at various sites along the Maine coast in order to more fully meet the statewide workforce needs of Maine’s marine industry; and
3. To subsidize the cost of planning and delivering a statewide expansion of the registered apprenticeship program and customized training of existing workers.