SECTIONS 16550-16557 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 16550-16557

16550. Immediately after the result of the election required by
Section 16527 has been determined, the county superintendent of
schools shall make a certificate in duplicate stating whether the
district has authorized the acceptance and expenditure of the
apportionment. One copy of the certificate shall be sent to the board
and one copy to the Controller. Upon the receipt by the board of the
certificate, the apportionment shall become final.

16551. The election by a school district upon the acceptance,
expenditure, and repayment of an apportionment prescribed by Section
16527 may be called and held either before or after the making of an
apportionment.

16552. Payment shall be made in accordance with the terms of a
final apportionment, to a school district for expenditures, or
commitments therefor, which have been made by the district subsequent
to the date of the proclamation of the Governor proclaiming a state
project in the area including the district, for any items approved by
the board in the apportionment. However, if expenditures were made
for, or work was commenced with respect to, any item so approved,
prior to the time the application of the district containing the item
was received by the board, payment or reimbursement for the item
shall be made only upon authorization of the board by special
resolution citing this section.

16553. The board shall prescribe in the detail that it deems
necessary, the purposes for which moneys apportioned by it to a
district under this chapter may be expended and the prescription
shall be binding upon the governing board of the district except that
it may be, for good cause, modified by the board.

16554. Each apportionment made by the board under this chapter
shall be certified by it to the Controller who shall thereupon draw
his or her warrant on the State Treasury in favor of the county
treasurer of the county having jurisdiction over the district. The
warrant shall be paid by the Treasurer from the State School
Construction Fund and is not subject to the provisions of Section
925.6 of the Government Code.

16555. The county treasurer of each county shall pay all moneys
received by him or her under this chapter into the county treasury to
the credit of the state school construction fund of the district,
which fund is hereby created, exactly as apportioned by the board.

16556. The governing board of each school district to which an
apportionment has been made under this chapter shall expend the
moneys in the state school construction fund of the district only for
the purposes for which the moneys were apportioned to the district
and for no other purpose and shall make any reports relating to the
expenditure of the moneys that the board and the Controller shall
require.

16557. It shall be the duty of the Controller to make any audit or
audits of the books and records of counties and school districts
receiving apportionments under this chapter, that he or she may deem
necessary from time to time, for the purpose of determining that the
money received by school districts as apportionments hereunder has
been expended for the purposes authorized by this chapter.