Cal. Code Regs. tit. 2 § 1859.40

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 1859.40 - Enrollment Projections Used to Determine a District's Eligibility for New Construction Grants

The district shall provide an enrollment Certification and report enrollment data, on the Form SAB 50-01. The information provided on this Form shall serve as the basis for determining a district's eligibility for New Construction funding. The enrollment projections generated by completing the Form SAB 50-01 shall be known as Cohort Projections for purposes of this section.

(a) In addition, a School District that meets the eligibility criteria as specified in Education Code Section 17071.75(a)(1) and has applied for determination of eligibility pursuant to Section 1859.20, may submit a request for review of an Alternative Enrollment Projection to the OPSC and the DRU.

(b) The request must contain all of the following to substantiate the Alternative Enrollment Projection methodology:

(1) provide a description to the OPSC on how the district cannot adequately meet its housing needs at the impacted school sites, after considering all existing eligibility mechanisms available from the Cohort Projections;

(2) a written explanation of the methodology for calculating the enrollment projections;

(3) an electronic copy of the calculations used in determining the enrollment projections;

(4) a disclosure of any assumptions that support the calculations of enrollment projections;

(5) a minimum of three years or more, as determined necessary by the DRU, of historical data used in calculating the enrollment projections. The data must be verifiable, annually based, and geographically organized if the school district's boundaries have changed since the 2000 Census conducted by the United States Census Bureau.

(6) a list of source(s) used to collect all applicable data with contact information for each data source;

(7) a separate enrollment projection for each grade level;

(8) a district-wide enrollment projection for any district that reports district-wide enrollment on the Form SAB 50-01; or HSAA enrollment projection(s) for any district that reports enrollment for one or more HSAA(s) on the Form SAB 50-01; or Super HSAA enrollment projection(s) for any district that reports enrollment for one or more Super HSAA(s) on the Form SAB 50-01.

The eligibility generated by an Alternative Enrollment Projection shall be made available to eligible school districts pursuant to Education Code Section 17071.75(a)(1), that received the OPSC's and the DRU's approval of the Alternative Enrollment Projection, until the combined Apportionments for all funding requests utilizing eligibility available from the Alternative Enrollment Projection reaches $500 million or the Board has no funds to apportion from the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2004.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 2, § 1859.40

1. New article 5 (sections 1859.40-1859.43) and section filed 12-3-98 as an emergency; operative 12-3-98 (Register 98, No. 49). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 4-2-99 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. New article 5 (sections 1859.40-1859.43) and section refiled 3-31-99 as an emergency; operative 3-31-99 (Register 99, No. 14). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 7-29-99 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. New article 5 (sections 1859.40-1859.43) and section refiled 7-29-99 as an emergency; operative 7-29-99 (Register 99, No. 31). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-26-99 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Certificate of Compliance as to 7-29-99 order, including amendment of section, transmitted to OAL 8-26-99 and filed 10-8-99 (Register 99, No. 41).
5. Amendment filed 6-26-2000; operative 6-26-2000 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 2000, No. 26).
6. Amendment filed 1-2-2001 as an emergency; operative 1-2-2001 (Register 2001, No. 1). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 5-2-2001 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
7. Certificate of Compliance as to 1-2-2001 order transmitted to OAL 5-1-2001 and filed 6-13-2001 (Register 2001, No. 24).
8. Amendment filed 4-10-2002; operative 4-10-2002 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2002, No. 15).
9. Amendment filed 11-4-2002 as an emergency; operative 11-4-2002 (Register 2002, No. 45). Pursuant to Education Code section 17070.35 a Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-4-2003 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
10. Certificate of Compliance as to 11-4-2002 order transmitted to OAL 11-4-2003 and filed 12-19-2003 (Register 2003, No. 51).
11. Amendment of first paragraph and new subsections (a)-(b)(8) filed 5-15-2006 as an emergency; operative 5-15-2006 (Register 2006, No. 20). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 9-12-2006 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
12. Certificate of Compliance as to 5-15-2006 order transmitted to OAL 7-19-2006 and filed 8-11-2006 (Register 2006, No. 32).

Note: Authority cited: Section 17070.35, Education Code. Reference: Sections 17071.75 and 17071.76, Education Code.