Section 126C.44 Safe Schools Levy - Minnesota Statutes

126C.44 SAFE SCHOOLS LEVY.

(a) Each district may make a levy on all taxable property located within the district for the purposes specified in this section. The maximum amount which may be levied for all costs under this section shall be equal to $30 multiplied by the district's adjusted marginal cost pupil units for the school year. The proceeds of the levy must be reserved and used for directly funding the following purposes or for reimbursing the cities and counties who contract with the district for the following purposes: (1) to pay the costs incurred for the salaries, benefits, and transportation costs of peace officers and sheriffs for liaison in services in the district's schools; (2) to pay the costs for a drug abuse prevention program as defined in section 609.101, subdivision 3, paragraph (e), in the elementary schools; (3) to pay the costs for a gang resistance education training curriculum in the district's schools; (4) to pay the costs for security in the district's schools and on school property; (5) to pay the costs for other crime prevention, drug abuse, student and staff safety, voluntary opt-in suicide prevention tools, and violence prevention measures taken by the school district; or (6) to pay costs for licensed school counselors, licensed school nurses, licensed school social workers, licensed school psychologists, and licensed alcohol and chemical dependency counselors to help provide early responses to problems. For expenditures under clause (1), the district must initially attempt to contract for services to be provided by peace officers or sheriffs with the police department of each city or the sheriff's department of the county within the district containing the school receiving the services. If a local police department or a county sheriff's department does not wish to provide the necessary services, the district may contract for these services with any other police or sheriff's department located entirely or partially within the school district's boundaries.

(b) A school district that is a member of an intermediate school district may include in its authority under this section the costs associated with safe schools activities authorized under paragraph (a) for intermediate school district programs. This authority must not exceed $10 times the adjusted marginal cost pupil units of the member districts. This authority is in addition to any other authority authorized under this section. Revenue raised under this paragraph must be transferred to the intermediate school district.

(c) A school district must set aside at least $3 per adjusted marginal cost pupil unit of the safe schools levy proceeds for the purposes authorized under paragraph (a), clause (6). The district must annually certify either that: (1) its total spending on services provided by the employees listed in paragraph (a), clause (6), is not less than the sum of its expenditures for these purposes, excluding amounts spent under this section, in the previous year plus the amount spent under this section; or (2) that the district's full-time equivalent number of employees listed in paragraph (a), clause (6), is not less than the number for the previous year.

History:

1975 c 432 s 75; 1976 c 271 s 81; 1977 c 447 art 6 s 8; 1978 c 764 s 105; 1982 c 548 art 6 s 21; 1983 c 314 art 6 s 24; 1984 c 463 art 6 s 6; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 398 art 1 s 21; art 6 s 12; 1988 c 486 s 85; 1988 c 718 art 6 s 20,21; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 329 art 6 s 48; art 13 s 9-11,20; 1Sp1989 c 1 art 2 s 11; 1990 c 426 art 2 s 1; 1990 c 562 art 6 s 33; art 7 s 10; art 10 s 9-11; 1990 c 596 s 3; 1991 c 130 s 29; 1991 c 265 art 5 s 12; 1991 c 291 art 4 s 1; 1992 c 499 art 6 s 29; art 7 s 11,26; art 12 s 29; 1992 c 511 art 2 s 21; art 5 s 9; 1992 c 603 s 11; 1993 c 224 art 7 s 13; art 8 s 3,4; 1994 c 647 art 8 s 9; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 1 s 17; art 16 s 13; 1996 c 412 art 4 s 10; art 13 s 18; 1997 c 66 s 79; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 1 s 26-28; art 2 s 31; 1998 c 397 art 7 s 112,164; 1999 c 241 art 2 s 48; 2000 c 254 s 44; 2000 c 489 art 2 s 24; 2002 c 377 art 5 s 4; 1Sp2003 c 9 art 2 s 38; 2006 c 263 art 1 s 15; 2007 c 146 art 1 s 14; 2008 c 363 art 2 s 24; 2009 c 96 art 1 s 17