2023 -- H 6468

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023

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J O I N T   R E S O L U T I O N

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $400,000 TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE

ISLAND FOR THE GWO CERTIFICATION PROGRAM AT THE FLANAGAN CAMPUS

     Introduced By: Representatives Baginski, and Finkelman

     Date Introduced: May 31, 2023

     Referred To: House Finance

     WHEREAS, In partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training,

Rhode Island Commerce, the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council and

Building Futures, and Revolution Wind, the Community College of Rhode Island will establish

the State's first Global Wind Organization (GWO) training certificate program at the Flanagan

campus in Lincoln; and

     WHEREAS, GWO training -- the international standard for offshore wind safety training

-- provides essential safety training for workers engaged in offshore wind farm construction and

operations; and

     WHEREAS, The U.S. Department of Energy estimates 43,000 new jobs will be created

in the offshore wind market by 2030. It is estimated that over the next decade, offshore wind

farms will create as many as 3,000 jobs in New England and generate an economic impact that

could reach $2 billion regionally; and

     WHEREAS, The GWO training certificate program will initially certify up to 125 Rhode

Islanders to be eligible to work in the offshore wind industry and will play a key role in

establishing a pipeline of Rhode Island workers to construct the nation's first offshore wind farm

off the coastal waters of Rhode Island; and

     WHEREAS, In furtherance of establishing the GWO training certificate program, the

Community College of Rhode Island applied for and received a grant of $500,000 from

Revolution Wind; and

     WHEREAS, It is necessary and essential for additional funding to be provided to

supplement the grant funds for the purpose of completing the build out projects required to

establish the GWO training certificate program; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not

otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars

($400,000) to the Community College of Rhode Island for the build out of the Flanagan Campus

Field House to establish a GWO training certificate program; and the state controller is hereby

authorized and directed to draw his orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of said sum,

or so much thereof as may be from time to time required, upon receipt of properly authenticated

vouchers.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

J O I N T   R E S O L U T I O N

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $400,000 TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE

ISLAND FOR THE GWO CERTIFICATION PROGRAM AT THE FLANAGAN CAMPUS

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     This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $400,000 to Community

College of Rhode Island for a GWO Certification Program at the Flanagan campus.

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