Arizona Laws 15-974. Equalization assistance for education for accommodation schools
A. Equalization assistance for education for accommodation schools shall be paid from appropriations for that purpose to the school districts as provided in section 15-973.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-974
- Accommodation school: means either:
(a) A school that is operated through the county board of supervisors and the county school superintendent and that the county school superintendent administers to serve a military reservation or territory that is not included within the boundaries of a school district. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Fiscal year: means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Revenue control limit: means the base revenue control limit plus the transportation revenue control limit. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Student count: means average daily membership as prescribed in this subsection for the fiscal year before the current year, except that for the purpose of budget preparation student count means average daily membership as prescribed in this subsection for the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-901
B. When an accommodation school has a positive total cash balance at the end of a fiscal year in its maintenance and operation fund, the county school superintendent of the county in which the accommodation school is located may authorize an addition to the accommodation school’s revenue control limit as provided in section 15-947, subsection A for the following fiscal year. The county school superintendent may not authorize an addition that exceeds the lesser of the ending cash balance minus the amount budgeted for the budget balance carryforward as provided in Section 15-943.01 or ten percent of the revenue control limit of the accommodation school and five percent of the revenue control limit pursuant to section 15-482, without the necessity of an election pursuant to section 15-481. If an accommodation school has a cash balance in excess of the amount needed to fund the budget balance carryforward and the addition authorized pursuant to this subsection for the following fiscal year, the remaining cash balance may be used for capital expenditures.
C. Subsection B of this section does not apply to an accommodation school with a student count of one hundred twenty-five or less in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight or to an accommodation school that offers instruction in grade nine, ten, eleven or twelve and that has a student count of one hundred or less in grades nine through twelve.