Section 41207.4 Of Chapter 2. Determination Of Minimum Level Of Education Funding From California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 24. >> Chapter 2.
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. (a) The sum of two hundred ten million one hundred
thousand dollars ($210,100,000) is hereby appropriated in the 2010-11
fiscal year from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation
to school districts and community college districts for the purpose
of offsetting the 2009-10 outstanding balance of the minimum funding
obligation to school districts and community college districts
pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(1) The amount appropriated pursuant to this subdivision shall be
allocated to school districts and community college districts as
defined in subdivision (a) of Section 41203.1.
(2) The amount allocated to school districts pursuant to this
subdivision shall be distributed in a manner that reflects the
proportion of regular average daily attendance in school districts,
as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 41209, as those numbers are
reported at the time of the second principal apportionment for the
fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which funds are to be
received.
(3) The amount annually allocated to community college districts
pursuant to this subdivision shall be distributed based on enrolled
full-time equivalent students, as those numbers are reported at the
time of the second principal apportionment for the fiscal year prior
to the fiscal year in which funds are to be received.
(4) For purposes of this subdivision a school district includes a
county office of education and a charter school.
(b) For purposes of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution, the amounts appropriated and allocated pursuant to this
section shall be applied to the outstanding balance of the minimum
funding obligation to school districts and community college
districts pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution for the 2009-10 fiscal year, and shall be deemed to be
appropriations made and allocated in that fiscal year in which the
deficiencies resulting in the outstanding balance were incurred.
(c) Funding received by school districts and community college
districts pursuant to this section shall first be deemed to be paid
in satisfaction of any outstanding claims pursuant to Section 6 of
Article XIII B of the California Constitution for reimbursement of
state-mandated local costs for any fiscal year. Notwithstanding any
amounts that are deemed, pursuant to this subdivision, to be paid in
satisfaction of outstanding claims for reimbursement of
state-mandated local costs, the Controller may audit any claim as
allowed by law and may reduce any amount owed by school districts and
community college districts pursuant to an audit by reducing amounts
owed for any other mandate claims. The Controller shall apply
amounts received by each school district or community college
district against any balances of unpaid claims for reimbursement of
state-mandated local costs and interest in chronological order
beginning with the earliest claim. The Controller shall report to
each school district and community college district the amounts of
any claims and interest that are offset from funds provided pursuant
to this section and shall report a summary of the amounts offset for
each mandate for each fiscal year to the Department of Finance and
the fiscal committees of the Legislature. The governing board of a
school district or community college district may expend funds
received pursuant to this section in excess of amounts offsetting
mandate claims for any other one-time purposes, as determined by the
governing board.