SECTIONS 14050-14058 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 14050-14058

14050. The county superintendent of schools shall on or before June
30 of each year submit a tentative budget and, on or before October
1 of each year, a final budget to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction for the succeeding fiscal year, in the form that the
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prescribe, setting forth
all known and estimated revenues of the county school service fund
for the succeeding fiscal year from all sources, and the proposed
expenditures from the county school service fund for the succeeding
fiscal year. The budget shall be approved by the Superintendent of
Public Instruction. When a budget is submitted to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction for his or her approval, he or she shall make a
review of each program prior to approving the budget. No allowance
shall be made under Sections 14050 to 14056, inclusive, whichever are
in effect, to a county superintendent of schools for any item of
current expenses or capital outlay with respect to which the county
superintendent has failed to comply with the regulations of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction which he or she is herewith
authorized to adopt applicable to such item. The regulations adopted
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction hereunder shall not be
limited to, but shall, among other matters:
(a) Prescribe procedures relating to budgeting, purchasing and
replacing capital outlay items.
(b) Prescribe procedures relating to the purchase, replacement,
operation and maintenance of automotive equipment.
(c) Prescribe the conditions under which the county superintendent
of schools may provide services to districts by contract.
(d) Prescribe the conditions under which allowances may be made to
the county superintendent of schools to contract for the services of
special consultants.
(e) Prescribe the conditions under which allowances may be made to
the county superintendent of schools to assume functions authorized
by law to be performed either by the county superintendent of schools
or another public agency.
(f) Prescribe conditions under which allowances will be made to
meet conditions of an emergency nature requiring the establishment
and maintenance of emergency schools, the providing of emergency
teachers for regular elementary schools, the providing of emergency
transportation to regular elementary schools, or emergency
apportionments to school districts.
(g) Define county school service fund publications and prescribe
the procedures to be followed relating to budgeting, printing and
distributing those publications.
Upon the approval of the budget by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, he or she shall note his or her approval thereon and
transmit one copy thereof to the county superintendent of schools and
one copy to the county auditor of the county.

14052. The State Board of Education shall establish definitions for
publications, and each county superintendent of schools, upon making
any publication shall transmit a copy thereof to the State Board of
Education.
In evaluating and analyzing justification documents, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be advised by an advisory
committee composed of county superintendents of schools, which
committee the Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby
authorized to appoint.

14054. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall during each
fiscal year allow to the county school service fund of each county
from the State School Fund such amounts as the budget submitted by
the county superintendent of schools and approved by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, under Section 14050, shows is
necessary, but:
(a) The total amount allowed by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction under this section to all county school service funds for
supervision of instruction and health, attendance, and guidance
services pursuant to Sections 1730 to 1762, inclusive, for pupils in
elementary school districts which during the next preceding fiscal
year had less than 901 units of average daily attendance, in high
school districts which, during the preceding year had less than 301
units of average daily attendance, and in unified school districts
which during the next preceding fiscal year had less than 1,501 units
of average daily attendance shall not exceed the sum provided by law
for such purpose or the amounts shown necessary by such budgets, for
such purpose, whichever is the lesser.
(b) The total amount allowed by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction under this section to all county school service funds for
all other purposes shall not exceed the sum provided by law for such
purposes or the amounts shown necessary by such budgets, whichever
is the lesser.

14055. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allow at such
times as needed to the county school service fund of each county
eligible to receive reimbursement from the amount credited to the
county school service fund contingency account in the State General
Fund, the amounts claimed by the county superintendent of schools as
expenditures from the county school service fund eligible for
reimbursement. No amounts for purposes specified in Section 14035
shall be included in the budgets submitted by a county superintendent
of schools to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

14056. The budget submitted pursuant to Section 14050 shall include
an amount equal to that specified by law as the state's contribution
toward payment of the annual salary of the county superintendent of
schools to be used exclusively for the partial payment of the annual
salary of the county superintendent of schools. Such amount shall be
paid for such purpose from the allowance made to the county school
service fund pursuant to Section 14054.

14057. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allow, in
addition to all other allowances, to the county school service funds:
(a) for all emergency schools maintained in each elementary school
district of the county by the county superintendent of schools, and
(b) each elementary school maintained in juvenile halls, juvenile
homes, and juvenile camps, by the county superintendent of schools,
and all opportunity schools and classes maintained by the county
superintendent of schools pursuant to Sections 48633 and 48634.
No allowance shall be made for emergency schools which is in
excess of the actual expense of maintaining the emergency school.

14058. (a) For all adults with disabilities educated by the county
superintendent of schools, for all secondary schools maintained in
juvenile halls, juvenile homes, and juvenile camps by the county
superintendent of schools, and for all pupils enrolled in grades 9 to
12, inclusive, in opportunity schools and classes and all
continuation schools and classes maintained by the county
superintendent of schools, the Superintendent shall allow the same
amount as he or she would compute for the foundation program of a
high school district under Section 41712.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the total of allowances for
education of adults with disabilities in classes established by the
county superintendent of schools pursuant to Section 52570 or 78440
shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in any one fiscal
year. The Superintendent shall establish a system of priorities that
he or she shall by rule or regulation adopt that shall give highest
priority to those counties in which no program or an insufficient
program for the education of adults with disabilities is provided by
the school districts within the county, in order to comply with the
limitation prescribed by this section.