The board of regents for elementary and secondary education shall immediately undertake the construction of a regional vocational school at a site to be selected by the board in an industrial area in the Blackstone Valley. The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) is appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of acquiring a site and for the constructing and equipping the regional vocational school; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of any sums or so much of the sum as may be required from time to time upon receipt by the controller of properly authenticated vouchers.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-45-4