Article 3. County School Service Funds—computation Of Allowances And Budgetary Requirements of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 9. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 3.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.