Chapter 3.1. Emergency Apportionment Repayment For West Contra Costa Unified School District of California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 24. >> Chapter 3.1.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the West Contra Costa Unified School District is authorized to lease, rent, sell, or otherwise utilize, excess school district real properties and facilities, the proceeds of which shall be used for the exclusive and sole purpose of repaying specified loans from the General Fund. Those properties may include the properties identified by prior resolution of the Richmond Unified School District. No real properties upon which state funds have been expended for acquisition or construction of new, or renovation of existing, structures for which an encumbrance to the state is currently in effect, may be used for this purpose. Any proposed utilization of school district properties or facilities shall be specified in a general district plan that is part of the financial recovery plan developed by the district pursuant to Section 41327.

(a) The loan obligations to which this chapter applies are as follows:
  (1) The loan of nine million five hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($9,525,000) made to the Richmond Unified School District from the General Fund as an emergency apportionment pursuant to Chapter 171 of the Statutes of 1990, less any principal payments made prior to enactment of this bill.
  (2) The loan of nineteen million dollars ($19,000,000) to the Richmond Unified School District, made pursuant to the May 2, 1991, order of the Superior Court of Contra Costa County.
  (3) Interest charges through January 31, 1993, at the rates established by the initial loan agreements or legislation, as reflected in the repayment schedule specified in paragraph (b) of Section 41472. Interest charges beginning February 1, 1993, apply at a rate equal to the daily investment rate of the Pooled Money Investment Account on January 1, 1993.
  (b) The loans specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) are hereby consolidated into one outstanding debt in the amount of twenty-eight million five hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($28,525,000), less any principal payments made prior to enactment of this bill.

(a) The school district may prepay its loan obligation without incurring any prepayment penalties.
  (b) (1) The minimum payment on the consolidated debt shall be determined according to the following payment schedule:

Payment Due Date Amount 2/1/93 $ 0 2/1/94 0 2/1/95 5,570,443 2/1/96 1,870,443 2/1/97 1,870,443 2/1/98 5,570,443 ----------

(2) The debt remaining after the school district's 1998 payment shall be repaid as a straight-line loan amortized over a 20-year term. This amount shall be repaid by the school district, plus interest calculated at a rate equal to the rate earned by the Pooled Money Investment Account on the date the act that adds this paragraph is chaptered, for a period not to exceed 20 years.
  (c) If payment is not made within 60 days after the scheduled date, the Controller shall pay the defaulted loan payment of principal and interest by withholding that amount from the next available payment that would otherwise be made to the county treasurer on behalf of the district pursuant to Section 14041 of the Education Code. However, subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, the amount withheld may be in monthly amounts as determined by an agreement between the West Contra Costa Unified School District and the Controller during the period beginning with the next available apportionment through the month preceding the next scheduled payment.
  (d) The Director of the Department of Finance may, upon the request of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, amend the payment schedule set forth in subdivision (b) if the director concludes that the amendment is warranted and is in the best interests of both the state and the West Contra Costa Unified School District education program. Upon that determination, the director shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee that the payment schedule will be changed on the date that is 90 days from the date of notification if the Legislature is in session, unless the Joint Legislative Budget Committee takes appropriate action to preclude that change. If the 90-day period ends during a recess of the Legislature or while the Legislature is not in session, the 90-day period shall be extended until the Legislature reconvenes. Amendments to the repayment schedule shall defer the unpaid portion of a repayment of the earliest fiscal year in which no other repayment is scheduled. Interest shall accrue on the unpaid portion of a repayment from the scheduled due date until the time the payment is actually made. The interest charge shall be the same rate as specified in Section 41471.
  (e) If the district is able to sell properties in advance of any of the obligations contained in the schedule set forth in subdivision (b), the scheduled interest cost shall be reduced in accordance with any prepayments that are made. If the repayment schedule is amended pursuant to subdivision (d), all proceeds from any properties sold in advance of any of the obligations shall be used as prepayment on the schedule.

Any and all provisions of statute that impose a condition on the sale, use, or transfer of public agency lands and properties as they would apply to the actions of the West Contra Costa Unified School District, including, but not limited to, Sections 17732 and 39363, pertaining to the use of schoolsite sale proceeds, and Section 39363.5 and Section 54222 of the Government Code pertaining to priority offerings of public lands for public purposes, are hereby waived until the loans identified in this article are repaid. This waiver authority does not extend to any real properties upon which state funds have been expended for acquisition or construction of new, or renovation of existing, structures for which an encumbrance to the state is currently in effect.

Notwithstanding Sections 41471 and 41472, the school district may submit a request to the Director of Finance to have the interest rate on the remaining outstanding balance of its emergency apportionments changed to reflect the investment rate of the Pooled Money Investment Account as reported by the State Controller's office for the immediately preceding fiscal year. Upon receipt of the request, the Director of Finance shall change the interest rate pursuant to this section. A change in the interest rate does not change other terms of the repayment schedule.