15-919.04 - Arizona Statutes

15-919.04. Optional performance incentives program; funding; limitation A. The superintendent of public instruction may authorize a district participating in the optional performance incentives program to calculate its budget using an increase in the base level of up to five and one-half per cent. B. If implementation phases are used, the superintendent of public instruction shall increase a district's funding level based on the district's achievement of successively higher implementation phases. C. Notwithstanding subsection B of this section, the state performance incentive oversight committee may authorize a district that is a career ladder district to budget for an increase in its base level that is equal to the base level increase that the district was authorized to budget for pursuant to section 15-918.04 at the time of original application to the optional performance incentives program. A school district shall not budget for both the career ladder program and the optional performance incentives program at the same time. D. Notwithstanding any other law, a school district that has implemented an optional performance incentive program may budget any budget balance in the maintenance and operation section of the budget that is directly attributable to a budgeted increase in the base level as prescribed in this section from the current fiscal year for use in optional performance incentive programs in the budget year. The amount budgeted pursuant to this subsection shall not be included in the allowable budget balance carryforward calculated pursuant to section 15-943.01. The amount budgeted pursuant to this subsection is specifically exempt from the revenue control limit. For purposes of this subsection, "budget balance" means the difference between actual optional performance incentive program expenditures and the budgeted increase in the base level as prescribed in this section.