Article 4. Apportionments, Payment of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 10. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 4.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.