Article 1. State Allocation Board of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 8. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 1.

Notwithstanding any provisions of Section 12020, 12220, and 12300 to 12307, inclusive, whenever by any act of Congress funds are provided as federal aid to education to the several states for apportionment or allocation to school districts or community college districts for the purposes set forth in this section, and such act of Congress does not require that it be administered in this state by a state officer or agency other than the State Allocation Board, such act, with respect to the funds herein mentioned, shall be administered and such funds shall be apportioned by the State Allocation Board under the Local Agency Allocation Act. The funds to which this section shall apply are funds appropriated by Congress for (a) the purchase and improvement of school sites; or (b) the purchase of furniture and equipment; or (c) the planning and construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration of, and addition to, school buildings and incidental facilities. The State Allocation Board shall by rule provide for securing the recommendations or approval of the Department of Education or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as the case may be, as to the facilities to be provided. Funds apportioned under this section shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of Section 12302 on claims submitted by the Director of General Services. The State Allocation Board is hereby authorized to accept any such funds on behalf of the state, and to cooperate with the government of the United States or any agency or agencies thereof in the administration of the act of Congress and rules and regulations lawfully adopted thereunder.

The State Treasurer is designated as the custodian of all funds received by the state from the government of the United States or of any agency or agencies thereof and he is authorized to receive, and provide for the proper custody of, all moneys so received.

The funds received by the state under Sections 12020, 12220, and 12300 to 12307, inclusive, shall be expended by the officers or agency administering the program to carry out the provisions of the act of the Congress and rules and regulations lawfully adopted thereunder. These funds are exempt from Section 925.6 of the Government Code and shall be paid out by the Treasurer on warrants drawn by the Controller on claims submitted by the Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.

The assent of the state is given to the provisions in the act of Congress entitled "An act to promote the mining of potash on the public domain," and approved by the President February 7, 1927, and to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize exploration for and disposition of potassium," approved by the President October 2, 1917.

All money derived from bonuses, royalties, and rentals under the provisions of the acts of Congress referred to in Section 12303, or either of said acts, and apportioned under the acts, or either of said acts, to the state shall be received by the State Treasurer and by him paid to the school districts and community college districts of the state as provided in Sections 12303 to 12307, inclusive.

The money shall be apportioned among the school districts and community college districts in which potash leases or deposits are situated in the proportion which the total amount of rents, royalties, and other payments made to the United States from potash leases or deposits in each district bears to the total amount paid to the United States from leases or deposits in all districts.

If any potash deposit or lease or any part thereof is wholly located within the boundaries of two or more elementary, high or unified school districts, or community college districts, the districts shall share equally in the apportionments made under Section 12305 which are attributable to the lease or deposit or part thereof situated within their boundaries.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this article or Section 2795 of the Public Resources Code, the Controller shall apportion money received pursuant to Section 12304 for potash deposits located in the Trona Joint Unified School District and the Kern Community College District as follows:
  (a) Kern Community College District shall receive 15 percent of the total apportionment.
  (b) Trona Joint Unified School District shall receive 85 percent of the total apportionment.

The payments shall be deposited in the general fund of the districts and shall be in addition to any other moneys paid or credited to the districts.