Actual+Facilities

Pacific Charter School Development is looking to work w/ non-CMO run charter schools to provide sites they can later buy!!! code 47614. (a) The intent of the people in amending Section 47614 is that public school facilities should be shared fairly among all public school pupils, including those in **charter** schools. (b) Each school district shall make available, to each **charter** school operating in the school district, facilities sufficient for the **charter** school to accommodate all of the **charter** school's in-district students in conditions reasonably equivalent to those in which the students would be accommodated if they were attending other public schools of the district. Facilities provided shall be contiguous, furnished, and equipped, and shall remain the property of the school district. The school district shall make reasonable efforts to provide the **charter** school with facilities near to where the **charter** school wishes to locate, and shall not move the **charter** school unnecessarily. (1) The school district may charge the **charter** school a pro rata share (based on the ratio of space allocated by the school district to the **charter** school divided by the total space of the district) of those school district facilities costs which the school district pays for with unrestricted general fund revenues. The **charter** school shall not be otherwise charged for use of the facilities. No school district shall be required to use unrestricted general fund revenues to rent, buy, or lease facilities for **charter** school students. (2) Each year each **charter** school desiring facilities from a school district in which it is operating shall provide the school district with a reasonable projection of the **charter** school's average daily classroom attendance by in-district students for the following year. The district shall allocate facilities to the **charter** school for that following year based upon this projection. If the **charter** school, during that following year, generates less average daily classroom attendance by in-district students than it projected, the space at rates to be set by the State Board of **Education**. (3) Each school district's responsibilities under this section shall take effect three years from the effective date of the measure which added this subparagraph, or if the school district passes a school bond measure prior to that time on the first day of July next following such passage. (4) Facilities requests based upon projections of fewer than 80 units of average daily classroom attendance for the year may be denied by the school district. (5) The term "operating," as used in this section, shall mean either currently providing public **education** to in-district students, or having identified at least 80 in-district students who are meaningfully interested in enrolling in the **charter** school for the following year. (6) The State Department of **Education** shall propose, and the State Board of **Education** may adopt, regulations implementing this subdivision, including but not limited to defining the terms "average daily classroom attendance," "conditions reasonably equivalent," "in-district students," "facilities costs," as well as defining the procedures and establishing timelines for the request for, reimbursement for, and provision of, facilities.
 * charter** school shall reimburse the district for the over-allocated

47614.5. (a) The **Charter** School Facility Grant Program is hereby established and shall be administered by the department. The grant program is intended to provide assistance with facilities rent and lease costs for pupils in **charter** schools. (b) Subject to the annual Budget Act, eligible schools shall receive an amount of up to, but not more than, seven hundred fifty dollars ($750) per unit of average daily attendance, as certified at the second principal apportionment, to provide an amount of up to, but not more than, 75 percent of the annual facilities rent and lease costs for the **charter** school. In any fiscal year, if the funds appropriated for the purposes of this section by the annual Budget Act are insufficient to fund the approved amounts fully, the Superintendent shall apportion the available funds on a pro rata basis. (c) For purposes of this section, the department shall do all of the following: (1) Inform **charter** schools of the grant program. (2) Upon application by a **charter** school, determine eligibility, based on the geographic location of the **charter** schoolsite, pupil eligibility for free or reduced price meals, and a preference in admissions, as appropriate. Eligibility for funding shall not be limited to the grade level or levels served by the school whose attendance area is used to determine eligibility. **Charter** schoolsites are eligible for funding pursuant to this section if the **charter** schoolsite meets either of the following conditions: (A) The **charter** schoolsite is physically located in the attendance area of a public elementary school in which 70 percent or more of the pupil enrollment is eligible for free or reduced priced meals and the schoolsite gives a preference in admissions to pupils who are currently enrolled in that public elementary school and to pupils who reside in the elementary school attendance area where the **charter** schoolsite is located. (B) Seventy percent or more of the pupil enrollment at the **charter** schoolsite is eligible for free or reduced price meals. (3) Inform **charter** schools of their grant eligibility. (4) Allocate funding to **charter** schools for eligible expenditures in a timely manner. (5) No later than June 30, 2005, report to the Legislature on the number of **charter** schools that have participated in the grant program pursuant to the expanded eligibility prescribed in paragraph (2). In addition, the report shall provide recommendations and suggestions on improving the grant program. (d) Funds appropriated for purposes of this section shall not be apportioned for any of the following: (1) Units of average daily attendance generated through nonclassroom-based instruction as defined by paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 47612.5 or that does not comply with conditions or limitations set forth in regulations adopted by the state board pursuant to this section. (2) **Charter** schools occupying existing school district or county office of **education** facilities. (3) **Charter** schools receiving reasonably equivalent facilities from their chartering authority pursuant to Section 47614. (e) Funds appropriated for purposes of this section shall be used for costs associated with facilities rents and leases, consistent with the definitions used in the California School Accounting Manual. These funds also may be used for costs, including, but not limited to, costs associated with remodeling buildings, deferred maintenance, initially installing or extending service systems and other built-in equipment, and improving sites. (f) If an existing **charter** school located in an elementary attendance area in which less than 50 percent of pupil enrollment is eligible for free or reduced price meals relocates to an attendance area identified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c), admissions preference shall be given to pupils who reside in the elementary school attendance area into which the **charter** school is relocating. (g) The Superintendent annually shall report to the state board regarding the use of funds that have been made available during the fiscal year to each **charter** school pursuant to the grant program. (h) It is the intent of the Legislature that not less than eighteen million dollars ($18,000,000) annually be appropriated for purposes of the grant program on the same basis as other elementary and secondary **education** categorical programs. (i) The Superintendent shall annually allocate the facilities grants to eligible **charter** schools no later than October 1 of each fiscal year or 90 days after enactment of the annual Budget Act, whichever is later, for the current school year rent and lease costs. However, the department shall first use the funding appropriated for this program to reimburse eligible **charter** schools for unreimbursed rent or lease costs for the prior school year. code code Modular Classrooms (if needed) Pac-Van code