Title EDC — California Educ. Code

This chapter may be cited as the “Urban School Construction Aid Law of 1968.”

The Legislature hereby declares that it is in the interest of the state and of the people thereof for the state to aid urban school districts of the state in reconstructing, modernizing, or replacing schoolsites and buildings for pupils of the public school system who are now hou…

As used in this chapter: (a) “Board” means the State Allocation Board. (b) “Director” means the Director of Education. (c) “Project” means the purpose or purposes for which a school district has applied for an apportionment or apportionments. (d) “Apportionment” means an apportio…

The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may require.

The State Allocation Board is continued in existence for the purposes of this chapter. The members of the board and the Members of the Legislature meeting with the board shall receive no compensation for their services under this chapter but shall be reimbursed for their actual a…

The board by the adoption of rules shall give priority in allocating funds to urban districts to those districts where the children will benefit most from schoolhouse facilities. This priority shall be based upon the age of existing buildings and the acuteness of overcrowding at …

In addition to any other powers and duties that are granted the board by this chapter, the board shall: (a) Establish any qualifications not in conflict with other provisions of this chapter that it deems will best serve the purposes of this chapter for determining the eligibilit…

The board shall prescribe instructions specifying the manner in which property, real or personal, being replaced through the apportionment, shall be disposed of, and compliance with the instructions shall be a condition upon the making of the apportionment. The net proceeds deriv…

Apportionments from the Urban School Construction Aid Fund created by Section 16728 shall be limited to urban districts and shall be made for the sole purpose of reconstructing or replacing existing substandard buildings constructed prior to 1943. The apportionments shall be made…

The board shall not make any apportionment with respect to an application for replacing inadequate school facilities unless it has first investigated and made a finding that it would not be economical or good practice to rehabilitate the facilities.

In addition to the purposes for which apportionments may be made to school districts under Section 16708, apportionments may also be made to school districts for the construction, repair, attachment, or development of offsite facilities, utilities, or improvements which the board…

(a) In making applications for, and in expending apportionments of funds under this chapter, a school district acts as an agent of the state and all sites purchased and improved, all equipment purchased, and all buildings constructed, reconstructed, altered, or added to through t…

A school district shall not expend money apportioned under this chapter unless the contracts under which the funds are expended have been let after competitive bids thereafter pursuant to this code.

Each school district which desires an apportionment shall submit through its governing board to the board an application therefor in the form and number of copies as the board shall prescribe. Each copy of the application shall be accompanied by a statement of the estimated cost …

The board may approve, in whole or in part, an application submitted by a school district under Section 19263 and in any amount, not exceeding the amount applied for, that the board may deem appropriate. The board may, upon approval of the application, in whole or in part, and su…

No apportionment shall be made for new construction, the area of which exceeds the area of the unsafe buildings being replaced under Section 16708. The area of school buildings shall be computed in a uniform manner as prescribed by the board.

Payment shall be made in accordance with the terms of an apportionment, either directly or by way of reimbursement, to a school district for expenditures, or commitments therefor, which have been made by the district subsequent to the effective date of this chapter for any items …

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the board, with the approval of the Director of General Services, shall, pursuant to this section, fix the rate of interest to be paid by the districts on the sums apportioned during that fiscal year. Beginning each fiscal year the b…

Apportionments may be made irrespective of whether there is on deposit at the time thereof a sufficient amount in the Urban School Construction Aid Fund to permit the payment of the apportionments. Disbursements may be made under any apportionment from any funds in the Urban Scho…

No apportionment shall be made to a district for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, school buildings if the requirements prescribed by this code for the construction of school buildings are not met by the plans for the entire building program of t…

Each district to which an apportionment or apportionments has been made under this chapter shall repay a portion or all of the principal amount of such apportionment or apportionments and the accrued interest thereon in 30 equal annual payments, as shall be determined by the Cont…

The Controller shall, during the next fiscal year following that in which he determines the annual repayment as herein provided, deduct the total amount of the annual repayment of each district in equal amounts from each of the February, March, April, and May installments of the …

The Controller shall determine and maintain a record of the amount due the state in connection with each apportionment made to a district under this chapter. He or she shall compute interest, at the rate fixed by the board, on each amount disbursed by the state pursuant to the ap…

Upon computing in any fiscal year the amount to be deducted from the apportionments to the district from the State School Fund during the succeeding fiscal year, the Controller shall notify the governing board of the district and the county auditor of the county, the county super…

The board of supervisors of the county, the county superintendent of which has jurisdiction over any district which under this chapter will have moneys withheld by the Controller from the apportionments to be made to it from the State School Fund during any fiscal year, shall ann…

The board shall prescribe in the detail that it deems necessary, the purposes for which moneys apportioned by it or which it requires the district to contribute toward, or in reduction of the cost of a project, may be expended, and the prescription shall be binding upon the gover…

An urban school construction fund is hereby created in the county treasury in each county for each school district in the county. The county treasurer of each county shall pay into the urban school construction fund of each school district, exactly as apportioned by the board, al…

Interest earned on those portions of deposits in an urban school construction fund representing allocations from the proceeds of state school reconstruction and replacement bonds received by the county treasurer for the benefit of a school district under this chapter shall be pai…

A fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be known as the Urban School Construction Aid Fund. All money in the Urban School Construction Aid Fund, including any money deposited the fund from any source whatsoever is hereby continuously appropriated without regard to fisc…

The governing board of each school district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter shall expend the moneys in the urban school construction fund of the school district exactly as apportioned by the board and only for the purposes for which the moneys were appo…

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…

Whenever the Controller determines that any money apportioned to a school district has been expended by the school district for purposes not authorized by this chapter, or exceeds the final cost of the project which is authorized by this chapter to be paid therefrom, the Controll…

(a) As used in this chapter: (1) “State-aided district” means a district to which an apportionment has been made under this chapter. (2) “Acquiring district” means a district in which all or a part of, a state-aided district or an applicant district has been included. (3) “Origin…

Whenever, subsequent to the date of an apportionment to a district, the state-aided district is included in whole or in part in another district, the acquiring district in which a state-aid project is located shall, on the effective date of the inclusion, succeed to and be vested…

A library district may be organized, as provided in this chapter. The library district may establish, equip, and maintain a public library for the dissemination of knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature and may exercise the powers granted or necessarily implied p…

The library district may include incorporated or unincorporated territory, or both, in any one or more counties, so long as the territory of the district consists of contiguous parcels and the territory of no city is divided. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Whenever the formation of a library district is desired, a petition which may consist of any number of instruments, may be presented at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors of the county in which is located the largest proportionate value of the lands within the proposed…

The petition shall be signed by registered voters residing within the proposed library district equal in number to at least 5 percent of the number of votes cast in the territory comprising the proposed district at the last preceding general state election at which a Governor was…

The proceedings for the filing and hearing of the petition are governed and controlled by the provisions of Sections 58032, 58033, 58034, 58060, and 58061 of the Government Code. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The proceedings for final hearing of the petition and the formation of the district are governed and controlled by the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 58090), Article 5 (commencing with Section 58130), and Article 7 (commencing with Section 58200) of Chapter 1 of…

On the filing of written protests by registered voters residing in the proposed district equal in number to at least 50 percent of the number of votes cast in the territory comprising the proposed district at the last preceding general state election at which a Governor was elect…

No library district including territory in more than one county shall be organized under this chapter without the concurrent consent by resolution of each board of supervisors involved, as well as the consent of the governing body of each city to be included. (Enacted by Stats. 1…

Within 30 days after the filing with the clerk of the board of supervisors or county board of supervisors of the resolution declaring the organization of the district, the supervising board of supervisors shall appoint the required number of library trustees from the district at …

The governing board of the district shall be called “the Board of Library Trustees of ____ Library District” (inserting the name of the particular district). (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The trustee shall hold office for the term of four years beginning on the last Friday in November next succeeding their appointment or election.

The first board of library trustees appointed or elected in a district shall at their first meeting so classify themselves by lot that their terms shall expire: (a) For three-member boards, one on the last Friday in November of the first odd-numbered calendar year next succeeding…

At its first meeting called after the original appointment of the board, and annually thereafter at its first meeting called after the last Friday in November in odd-numbered years, the board shall organize by electing one of its number president, and another one of its number se…

The board shall cause a proper record of its proceedings to be kept, and at the first meeting of the board of trustees of the library district, it shall immediately cause to be made out and filed with the State Librarian a certificate showing that the library district has been es…

A vacancy in the board of library trustees shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment of the supervising board of supervisors. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Each library trustee shall hold office until his successor is elected and qualified. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)