SECTIONS 16210-16215 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 16210-16215

16210. Not to exceed thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) of
the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized by the State School
Building Aid Bond Law of 1966 may be expended pursuant to this
article as grants to assist school districts.
Allocations and grants under this article shall be made by the
State Allocation Board, upon application of an eligible school
district, for the purposes and projects designated by the district
and approved by the Director of Compensatory Education. The purposes
and projects shall be provided for pupils in any kindergarten or any
of grades 1 to 9, inclusive, and for children participating in
preschool programs. The Director of Compensatory Education may
establish priorities for purposes of allocations and grants under
this article based upon comparative needs of school districts and the
urgency thereof. No interest shall be charged to a school district
for an allocation or grant made under this article to the school
district.

16211. Grants may be made pursuant to this article to districts
which have been determined to be eligible for an apportionment under
Article 5 (commencing with Section 54480) of Chapter 4 of Part 29, or
districts maintaining schools for kindergarten, or any of grades 1
to 6, inclusive, in areas designated pursuant to Section 54482 which
have reduced the number of pupils to full-time equivalent classroom
teachers in kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, in
those schools to a ratio of 25 to 1, or better. The grants shall be
made for the purposes, and subject to the conditions, following:
For expenditure by the district in areas designated pursuant to
Section 54482 for any of the following:
(a) Acquisition, by purchase or lease, and the installation and
equipping of portable classrooms for classroom instructional
purposes.
(b) Acquisition of land for schoolsites.
(c) Construction and equipping of permanent school buildings and
facilities.
(d) Reconstruction, renovation or remodeling of existing school
buildings and facilities.
(e) Any combination of the above.

16212. In lieu of grants to districts pursuant to subdivision (a)
of Section 16211 for the purpose of acquisition of portable buildings
or other facilities and equipment, the board may expend moneys
available for grants under this article for the acquisition of
portable buildings and facilities and equipment by the state, and
thereafter convey the same to the eligible districts. The conveyance
to eligible districts may take the form of sale, lease, outright
grant, or other suitable form of conveyance, as determined by the
board.

16213. In formulating recommendations to the board under this
article, the State Department of Education, through the Director of
Compensatory Education, shall be subject to standards established by
rules and regulations of the State Board of Education.

16214. For each school district which receives a grant or
allocation pursuant to this article, commencing with the fiscal year
next succeeding the fiscal year in which the grant or allocation was
received, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Controller shall
compute an amount equal to one cent ($0.01) on each one hundred
dollars ($100) of the assessed valuation of property within the
district. The Controller shall, during the next fiscal year following
that in which he or she makes the computation pursuant to the
preceding sentence of this section, deduct the amount so computed in
equal amounts from each of the February, March, April, and May
installments of the apportionments made to the district from the
State School Fund under Sections 41330 to 41343, inclusive, and
Sections 41600 to 41972, inclusive; and, on order of the Controller,
the amount so deducted shall be transferred to the State School
Building Aid Fund. All money transferred to the State School Building
Aid Fund under this section shall be available only for transfer to
the General Fund under Section 17204, as enacted by Section 2 of
Chapter 1010 of the Statutes of 1978.
The Controller shall make the computations and deductions required
by this section for 30 fiscal years or until the time as the total
of the amounts so deducted equal 50 percent of the amount of the
grant or allocation which was made to the school district, whichever
first occurs.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, for each
fiscal year for which a computation is made pursuant to the section,
the maximum rate of school district tax for the school district for
which the computation is made shall be increased by one cent ($0.01)
per each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assessed value of property
within the district and shall be in addition to any amount of tax
otherwise authorized to be levied, and amounts raised through the
levy of the tax may be used to offset any reduction in equalization
aid resulting from the deductions made pursuant to this section.
The increase in the maximum school district tax provided by this
section shall be deemed to be for bonded debt service or current
capital construction. If the one cent ($0.01) rate of school district
tax levied by the district causes the tax levied by the district for
bonded debt service and for current capital construction in the same
year to exceed the forty-cent ($0.40) tax amount, as that term is
defined by Section 16070 or 16071, whichever is applicable, for each
grade level maintained by the district, the Controller shall not make
the deduction otherwise required by this section for the fiscal
year.

16215. Sections 16000 to 16006, inclusive, Sections 16009, 16018,
and 16021, and Sections 16091 to 16100, inclusive, shall be
applicable to the administration of this article, unless the context
of this article, as determined by the board, requires otherwise.