[Stats. 1999, Chapter 390
(AB 939, Brewer)]

Amends Education Code Section 39619 and adds Education Code Section 17584.1

Existing law requires the State Allocation Board to apportion, from the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund, a specified amount of funds to school districts on a 50 percent matching basis, to the extent funds are available.

The new law requires a governing board to discuss proposals for expenditures on deferred maintenance of school district facilities at a regularly scheduled public hearing. The new law also requires a school board to report to the Legislature by March 1 in any year that the school district does not set aside prescribed funds for facility maintenance.

The March 1 report must include the following:

• A schedule of the complete school facilities deferred maintenance needs of the school district for the current year, including a schedule of costs per school site and total costs
• A detailed description of the school district's spending priorities for the current year, and an explanation of why those priorities, or any other considerations, have prevented the school district from setting aside sufficient local funds so as to permit it to fully fund its deferred maintenance program
• An explanation of how the governing board of a school district plans to meet its current-year facilities deferred maintenance needs without setting aside the required funds

Generously provided by Ralph D. Stern, General Counsel, Schools Legal Counsel