Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 15 > Chapter 12 > Article 4 - Community College District Finance

• Additional short-term classes: means those classes that are not in session on the forty-fifth day of the fall or spring semester, that commence at various times during the fiscal year and that are offered over a period of less than sixteen weeks. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Base: means the revenue level per student count specified by the legislature. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Budget year: means the fiscal year for which the community college district is budgeting and that immediately follows the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Community college: means an educational institution that is operated by a district board and that provides a program of not more than four years' training in the arts, sciences and humanities beyond the twelfth grade of the public or private high school course of study or vocational education, including terminal courses of a technical and vocational nature and basic adult education courses. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Community college tuition financing district: means a district that is organized pursuant to section 15-1409. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Course: means organized subject matter in which instruction is offered within a given period of time and for which credit toward promotion, graduation or certification is usually given. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Current year: means the fiscal year in which the community college district is operating. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• District: means a community college district that is established pursuant to sections 15-1402 and 15-1403 or Section 15-1402. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• District board: means the community college district governing board. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• enrollment: means that a pupil is currently registered in the school district. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• 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
• Full-time equivalent student: means student enrollment for fifteen community college semester credit units per semester. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Full-time student: means :

  (i) For common schools, a student who is at least six years of age before January 1 of a school year, who has not graduated from the highest grade taught in the school district and who is regularly enrolled in a course of study required by the state board of education. See Arizona Laws 15-901

• Governing board: means a body organized for the government and management of the schools within a school district or a county school superintendent in the conduct of an accommodation school. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Operational expenses: means the administration, instruction, operation of community college plant, maintenance of community college plant, fixed charges and contingencies incurred in the operation of a district, excluding all capital outlay items, special levies, auxiliary enterprise funds, restricted funds and bond service items. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or public or private organization of any kind. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Primary property taxes: means all ad valorem taxes except for secondary property taxes. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Secondary property taxes: means ad valorem taxes used to pay the principal of and the interest and redemption charges on any bonded indebtedness or other lawful long-term obligation issued or incurred for a specific purpose by a school district or a community college district and amounts levied pursuant to an election to exceed a budget, expenditure or tax limitation. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• 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
• Subject: means a division or field of organized knowledge, such as English or mathematics, or a selection from an organized body of knowledge for a course or teaching unit, such as the English novel or elementary algebra. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• withdrawals: means students who are formally withdrawn from schools or students who are absent for ten consecutive school days, except for excused absences identified by the department of education. See Arizona Laws 15-901