[ ] FOR [ ] AGAINST
the issuance of State of North Carolina Higher Education
Improvement Bonds, constituting general obligation bonds of the
State secured by a pledge of the faith and credit and taxing
power of the State for the purpose of providing funds, with any
other available funds, to pay all or part of the cost of (i)
renovating laboratories, classrooms, academic buildings, and
worker training facilities and providing other capital
improvements at the 59 institutions of the North Carolina
Community College System in order to fulfill the mission of
educating students and providing worker training essential to the
North Carolina economy, and to address expected large increases
in student enrollment, and (ii) renovating and replacing
classrooms, laboratories, and academic buildings and providing
other capital improvements at the 16 campuses of the constituent
institutions, the affiliated institutions, and the Center for
Public Television (UNC-TV) of the University of North Carolina
System in order to meet large expected student enrollment
increases, serve North Carolina by providing the education
critical to the State's economy, and continue to provide UNC-TV
public television to the State's viewers; in the amount of three
billion one hundred million dollars ($3,100,000,000)."