HB 2637 - DIGEST

(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

     Authorizes the board to purchase services customarily and historically provided by employees in classified service under chapter 41.06 RCW by contracting with individuals or business entities, without the necessity of showing that classified employees could not provide these services, if the purchase would not result in either increased expenditures of public funds for the contracted service or the termination of state-funded permanent classified employees employed at the joint center for higher education.

     Authorizes the board to receive and expend funds derived from rents of properties located on land owned by the joint center for higher education that has been designated for future expansion of the Riverpoint higher education park.

     Authorizes the board to contract for the construction, completion, reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, and improvement of such buildings or other facilities of the Riverpoint higher education park as are authorized by the legislature to be financed by the issuance and sale of bonds.

     Repeals RCW 28B.25.080.