Article 4. School Housing Aid For Compensatory Education Purposes of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 10. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 4.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.