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2007 California Education Code Article 1. Duties Of Governing Board
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EDUCATION CODESECTION 17565-17592.5
17565. The governing board of any school district shall furnish, repair, insure against fire, and in its discretion rent the school property of its districts. The governing board may also insure the property against other perils. The insurance shall be written in any admitted insurer, or in any nonadmitted insurer to the extent and subject to the conditions prescribed in Section 1763 of the Insurance Code. Insurance on property of a district may be, in the discretion of the governing board, of the deductible type of coverage. By deductible type of coverage is meant a form of insurance under which the insurance becomes operative when the loss and damage exceeds an amount stipulated in the policy or policies. The governing board, in their notice of bid for any school district construction, may indicate that it may elect to assume the cost of fire insurance by adding the coverage to the district's existing policy and in that event bids made on the construction shall be made in the alternative, with and without the fire insurance coverage included, and the governing board shall make its election as to who shall secure and pay for the insurance at the time of accepting the bid. 17566. (a) The governing board of any school district, by resolution, may establish a fund or funds for losses, and payments, including, but not limited to, health and welfare benefits for its employees as defined by Section 53200 of the Government Code, school district property, any liability, and workers' compensation, in the county treasury for the purpose of covering the deductible amount under deductible types of insurance policies, losses or payments arising from self-insurance programs, or losses or payments due to noninsured perils. In the fund or funds shall be placed those sums, to be provided in the budget of the school district, that will create an amount that, together with investments made from the fund or funds, will be sufficient in the judgment of the governing board to protect the school district from those losses or to provide for payments on the deductible amount under deductible types of insurance policies, losses or payments arising from self-insurance programs, or losses or payments due to noninsured perils. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the governing board from providing protection against those losses or liability for the payment of claims partly by means of the fund or funds and partly by means of insurance written by acceptable insurers as provided in Section 17565. The fund or funds shall be considered as separate and apart from all other funds of the school district, and the balance therein shall not be considered to be part of the working cash of the school district in compiling annual budgets. Warrants may be drawn on or transfers made from the fund or funds so created only to reimburse or indemnify the school district for losses as herein specified, and for the payment of claims, administrative costs, and related services, and to provide for deductible insurance amounts and purchase of excess insurance. The warrants or transfers shall be within the purpose of the fund or funds as established by resolution of the governing board. The cash placed in the fund or funds may be invested and reinvested by the county treasurer, with the advice and consent of the governing board of the school district, in securities that are legal investments for surplus county funds in this state. The income derived from the investments, together with interest earned on uninvested funds, shall be considered revenue of, and be deposited in, the fund. The cost of contracts or services authorized by this section are appropriate charges against the respective fund. The governing board may contract for investigative, administrative, and claims adjustment services relating to claims. The contract may provide that the contracting firm may reject, settle, compromise, and approve claims against the district, or its officers or employees, within the limits and for amounts that the governing board may specify, and may provide that the contracting firm may execute and issue checks in payment of those claims, which checks shall be payable only from a trust account that may be established by the governing board. Funds in the trust account established by the board pursuant to this section shall not exceed a sum that is sufficient, as determined by the governing board to provide for the settlement of claims for a 30-day period. The rejection or settlement and approval of a claim by the contracting firm in accordance with the terms of the contract shall have the same effect as would the rejection or settlement and approval of the claim by the governing board. The contract may also provide that the contracting firm may employ legal counsel, subject to terms and limitations that the board may prescribe, to advise the contracting firm concerning the legality and advisability of rejecting, settling, compromising, and paying claims referred to the contracting firm by the board for investigation and adjustment, or to represent the board in litigation concerning the claims. The compensation and expenses of the attorney for services rendered to the board shall be an appropriate charge against the appropriate fund. The contract provided for in this section may contain other terms and conditions that the governing board may consider necessary or desirable to effectuate the board's self-insured programs. In lieu of, or in addition to, contracting for the services described in this section, the governing board may authorize an employee or employees to perform any or all of the services and functions for which the board may contract under the provisions of this section. (b) As used in this section: (1) "Firm" includes a person, corporation, or other legal entity, including a county superintendent of schools. (2) "Governing boards" includes governing boards of school districts and county superintendents of schools. (3) "School district" includes a county superintendent of schools who may participate in or administer insurance or self-insurance programs for the county office of education or for one or more school districts. (c) A county superintendent of schools may participate in or administer insurance for one or more school districts pursuant to this section or for one or more community college districts pursuant to Section 81602, for any combination of school districts and community college districts pursuant to this section and Section 81602. (d) Prior to funding health and welfare benefits pursuant to this section, the school district shall secure the services of an actuary who is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries to provide actuarial evaluations of the future annual costs of those benefits. The future annual costs as determined by the actuary shall be made public at a public meeting at least two weeks prior to the commencement of funding health and welfare benefits pursuant to this section. (e) Upon commencing the funding of health and welfare benefits pursuant to this section, the school district shall secure the services of an actuary as described in subdivision (d) to complete, every three years, an actuarial evaluation of the annual costs of those benefits. A copy of the results of that evaluation shall be submitted by the district to the county superintendent of schools. 17567. Nothing in this code shall be construed to prohibit two or more school districts from exercising, through a joint powers agreement made pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the powers prescribed in Section 17566 in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in that section and in Section 17565. 17568. In districts situated within or partly within cities having a population of over five hundred thousand (500,000) as determined by the 1920 federal census any board of education may establish a fund in the county treasury for the purpose of covering fire losses to school property in lieu of carrying fire insurance in admitted insurers as provided in Section 17565. In the fund shall be placed sums, to be provided in the budget of the district, as will create an amount which, together with investments made from the fund, will be sufficient in the judgment of the board of education upon the advice of competent actuaries to protect the board of education against losses by fire on all or any part of the school property within its jurisdiction. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as prohibiting the board of education from providing protection against fire losses partly by means of the fund and partly by means of fire insurance written by admitted insurers as provided in Section 17565. The fund shall be considered as separate and apart from all other funds of the district and the balance therein shall not be considered as being part of the working cash of the district in compiling annual budgets or fixing annual tax rates. Warrants shall be drawn on, or transfers made from, the fund so created only to reimburse or indemnify the school district for losses as herein specified, and for the payment of claims, administrative costs, related services, and to provide for deductible insurance amounts and the purchase of excess insurance. The warrants or transfers shall be within the purpose of the fund as established by resolution of the governing board. The cash placed in the fund may be invested and reinvested by the county treasurer with the advice and consent of the board of education in securities which are legal investments for surplus county funds in this state. The income derived from such investments together with interest earned on uninvested funds shall be considered revenue of and be deposited in the fund. The county treasurer shall make quarterly reports to the board of education as to the condition of the fund, using as a basis for the report the cost or market value, whichever may be the lower, of the securities held as investments plus the cash in the fund. 17569. The governing board of any school district may grade, pave, construct sewers, or otherwise improve streets and other public places in front of real property owned or controlled by it, and also may construct in immediate proximity to any school or site owned or controlled by the district, pedestrian tunnels, overpasses, footbridges, sewers and water pipes when required for school or administrative purposes, may acquire property, easements and rights-of-way for such purpose, and may appropriate money to pay the cost and expense of the improvements, whether made by the board under contract executed by the board, or under contracts made in pursuance of any of the general laws of the state respecting street improvements, or under other contracts made in pursuance of the charter of any county or municipality. 17570. Any provision to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing board of any school district, other than a city school district with over 50,000 pupils in average daily attendance during the preceding fiscal year, may construct pedestrian walks, footbridges, and pedestrian tunnels when required for the safety of pupils attending the schools of the district, may acquire easements and rights-of-way for those purposes, and may appropriate money to acquire such easements and rights-of-way and to pay the cost and expense of the improvements, whether made by the board under contract executed by the board, or under contracts made in pursuance of any of the general laws of the state respecting street improvements, or under other contracts made in pursuance of the charter of any county or municipality. Pedestrian walks, footbridges, and pedestrian tunnels shall be constructed, and such easements or rights-of-way for those purposes shall be acquired, within one mile of the school for the pupils of which the walks, bridges, and tunnels are necessary. 17571. The governing board of any school district may install and maintain a lighting system in any underpass in the vicinity of a schoolhouse. 17572. The governing board of any school district may appropriate money to pay assessments, for the improvement of streets or other public places, levied against any real property owned by, or under the control of the board, when the property is included within an assessment district formed in pursuance of any general law of the state or under the charter of any municipality. The assessments may be paid out of any funds belonging to the school district, except funds derived from the sale of bonds or required by law to be used for teachers' salaries. 17573. The governing board of every school district shall provide a warm, healthful place in which children who bring their own lunches to school may eat the lunches. 17574. The governing board of a school district may construct a mobilehome site on the grounds of any district facility or facilities maintained by the district, including all necessary appurtenances and fixtures, and may pay the cost of utilities, insurance, and necessary services, for the purpose of enabling a responsible person or persons to install and occupy a mobilehome on such site. Such person or persons, who need not be classified as employees of the district, shall, in return for being permitted to install and occupy a mobilehome on the district facility site on terms and conditions acceptable to the governing board, agree to maintain any surveillance over the facility grounds as the school district governing board requires, and to report to district authorities illegal or suspicious activities that are observed. 17575. The governing board of any school district, when leasing a building for housing of school district employees, may lease such building for any period they deem necessary. 17576. The governing board of every school district shall provide, as an integral part of each school building, or as part of at least one building of a group of separate buildings, sufficient patent flush water closets for the use of the pupils. In school districts where the water supply is inadequate, chemical water closets may be substituted for patent flush water closets by the board. This section shall apply to all buildings existing on September 19, 1947, or constructed after such date. 17577. In addition to the other powers granted the governing board of each school district may provide sewers and drains adequate to treat and/or dispose of sewage and drainage on or away from each school property. For this purpose it may construct adequate systems or acquire adequate disposal rights in systems constructed or to be constructed by others for these purposes without regard to their proximity. The cost thereof may be paid from the building fund, including any bond moneys therein. 17578. The governing board of each district maintaining a high school shall provide for the annual cleaning, sterilizing, and necessary repair of football equipment of their respective schools pursuant to Sections 17579 and 17580. 17579. All football equipment actually worn by pupils shall be cleaned and sterilized at least once a year. Football equipment used in spring training shall be cleaned and sterilized before it is used in the succeeding fall term. 17580. Any contract with a dealer or craftsman for the repair of football equipment belonging to the district or the state college shall specifically state or describe the materials to be used by the dealer or craftsman in repairing such equipment. 17581. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the quality of protective equipment worn by participants in high school interscholastic football is a significant factor in the occurrence of injuries to such participants and that it is therefore necessary to insure minimum standards of quality for the equipment in order to prevent unnecessary injuries to such participants. (b) No football helmets shall be worn by participants in high school interscholastic football unless the equipment has been certified for use by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment or any other recognized certifying agency in the field. This section shall not be construed as relieving school districts from the duty of maintaining football protective equipment in a safe and serviceable condition. 17582. (a) The governing board of each school district may establish a restricted fund to be known as the "district deferred maintenance fund" for the purpose of major repair or replacement of plumbing, heating, air conditioning, electrical, roofing, and floor systems, the exterior and interior painting of school buildings, the inspection, sampling, and analysis of building materials to determine the presence of asbestos-containing materials, the encapsulation or removal of asbestos-containing materials, the inspection, identification, sampling, and analysis of building materials to determine the presence of lead-containing materials, the control, management, and removal of lead-containing materials, and any other items of maintenance approved by the State Allocation Board. Funds deposited in the district deferred maintenance fund may be received from any source whatsoever, and shall be accounted for separately from all other funds and accounts and retained in the district deferred maintenance fund for purposes of this section. The term "school building" as used in this article includes a facility that a county office of education is authorized to use pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 17280) of Chapter 3. (b) Funds deposited in the district deferred maintenance fund shall only be expended for maintenance purposes as provided pursuant to subdivision (a). (c) The governing board of each school district shall have complete control over the funds and earnings of funds once deposited in the district deferred maintenance fund, provided that no funds deposited in the district deferred maintenance fund pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 17584 may be expended by the governing board for any purpose except those specified in subdivision (a) of this section. 17583. Notwithstanding Section 17582, whenever the state funds provided pursuant to Sections 17584 and 17585 are insufficient to fully match the local funds deposited in the deferred maintenance fund, the governing board of each school district may transfer the excess local funds deposited in that fund to any other expenditure classifications in other funds of the district. A resolution providing for the transfer shall be approved by a two-thirds vote of the governing board members and filed with the county superintendent of schools and the county auditor. 17584. (a) The State Allocation Board shall apportion, from the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund, to school districts an amount equal to one dollar () for each one dollar () of local funds up to a maximum of 1/2 percent of the district's second prior fiscal year revenue limit average daily attendance multiplied by the average, per unit of second prior fiscal year average daily attendance, of the total expenditures and ending fund balances of the total general funds and adult education funds for districts of similar size and type, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 42238.4, for the second prior fiscal year, exclusive of any amounts expended for capital outlay, debt service, or revenues that are passed through to other local education agencies, to the extent of funds available. (b) In order to be eligible to receive state aid pursuant to subdivision (a), no district shall be required to budget from local district funds an amount greater than 1/2 percent of the district's second prior fiscal year revenue limit average daily attendance, multiplied by the average, per unit of second prior fiscal year average daily attendance, of the total expenditures and ending fund balances of the total general funds and adult education funds for districts of similar size and type, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 42238.4 for the second prior fiscal year, exclusive of any amounts expended for capital outlay, debt service, or revenues that are passed through to other local educational agencies. (c) The apportionment of funds specified in subdivision (a) shall be made by the State Allocation Board after December 1 of each fiscal year. 17584.1. (a) The governing board of a school district shall discuss proposals and plans for expenditure of funds for the deferred maintenance of school district facilities at a regularly scheduled public hearing. (b) In any year that the school district does not set aside 1/2 of one percent of its current-year revenue limit average daily attendance for deferred maintenance, the governing board of a school district shall submit a report to the Legislature by March 1, with copies to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education, the Department of Finance, and the State Allocation Board. (c) The report required pursuant to subdivision (b) shall include all of the following: (1) A schedule of the complete school facilities deferred maintenance needs of the school district for the current year, including a schedule of costs per schoolsite and total costs. (2) 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 and, if eligible, to participate in the state deferred maintenance funding program as set forth in Section 17584. (3) 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 funds set forth in Section 17584. (d) Copies of the report shall be made available at each schoolsite within the school district and shall be provided to the public upon request. (e) The purposes of this section is to inform the public regarding the local decisionmaking process relating to the deferred maintenance of school facilities, and to provide a foundation for local accountability in that regard. 17584.2. At the public hearing required pursuant to Section 17584.1, the governing board of the school district shall also address the use of deferred maintenance funds for the inspection, identification, sampling, and analysis of building materials to determine the presence of lead-containing materials and the control, management, and removal of lead-containing materials. 17584.3. (a) A priority for use of funds appropriated pursuant to Section 17584 shall be to ensure that facilities, including, but not limited to, restroom facilities for pupils, are functional and that they meet local hygiene standards generally applicable to public facilities. (b) This section does not authorize the use of funds apportioned pursuant to Section 17584 for regular operational and maintenance costs of restrooms and other facilities. The funds apportioned pursuant to Section 17584 may only be used for the deferred maintenance of those facilities consistent with subdivision (a) of Section 17582. 17585. (a) School districts may submit applications to the State Allocation Board for deferred maintenance funding in addition to the amounts specified in Section 17584. In order to be eligible for an additional apportionment, a school district shall do all of the following: (1) Certify that if an additional apportionment is provided, the district will have matched the additional apportionment amount with an equal amount of district funds that have not been previously used as a match for state aid. (2) Certify an additional claim of not greater than one-half of 1 percent of the district's current-year revenue limit average daily attendance, multiplied by the average, per unit of average daily attendance, of the total general funds and adult education funds budgeted by districts of similar size and type, as defined in Section 42238.4 for the prior fiscal year, excluding any amounts budgeted for capital outlay or debt service, but including adult education funds. (3) Certify that any additional funds will be used to meet deferred maintenance identified in the district's five-year deferred maintenance plan. (b) The State Allocation Board shall establish rules and regulations regarding the formulas used to apportion additional funds pursuant to this section. (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that state funds for deferred maintenance be drawn first from excess bond repayments by school districts, revenues pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 6217 of the Public Resources Code, and proceeds from existing general obligation bonds. 17586. Notwithstanding any limitations imposed as a result of actions taken by the State Allocation Board pursuant to Section 17462, a school district shall be eligible to receive an apportionment pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 17584, if it meets all of the following criteria: (a) There are excess revenues that resulted from the sale of surplus sites upon which there was no encumbrance to the board. (b) The Superintendent of Public Instruction has verified all of the following: (1) The district had a fiscal emergency in any one or both of the 1987 -88 and 1988-89 fiscal years. (2) The fiscal emergency was caused primarily by required expenditures. (3) The district has taken reasonable steps to address the fiscal emergency. 17587. (a) Notwithstanding the limitations of Section 17584, the State Allocation Board may each year reserve an amount not to exceed 10 percent of the funds transferred from any source to the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund for apportionments to school districts, in instances of extreme hardship. The apportionment shall be in addition to the apportionments made pursuant to Section 17584. Not less than one-half of all funds made available by this section shall be apportioned to school districts that had an average daily attendance, excluding summer session attendance, of less than 2,501 during the prior fiscal year. An extreme hardship shall exist in a school district when the State Allocation Board determines the existence of all of the following: (1) That the district has deposited in its deferred maintenance fund an amount equal to at least 0.5 percent of the total general funds and adult education funds budgeted by the district for the fiscal year, exclusive of any amounts budgeted for capital outlay or debt service. (2) That the district has a critical project on its five-year plan which if not completed in one year could result in serious damage to the remainder of the facility or would result in a serious hazard to the health and safety of the pupils attending the facility. (3) That the total funds deposited by the district and the state pursuant to Section 17584 are insufficient to complete the project. (b) As a result of the determination made in subdivision (a), the State Allocation Board may increase the apportionment to a school district by the amount it determines necessary to complete the critical project. (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), in any fiscal year in which the State Allocation Board has apportioned all funding from the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund for which school districts have qualified under Section 17584, the board may apportion any amount remaining in that fund for the purposes of this section. 17588. As a result of the determination made in Section 17587, the State Allocation Board may do any of the following: (a) Increase the apportionment to an eligible school district by the amount it determines necessary to complete the critical project, and require a contribution by the district. (b) Waive repayment by the district, in whole or in part. (c) Reduce state apportionments pursuant to Section 17584 in future years to offset the increased apportionment. The State Allocation Board shall develop and adopt regulations for the application of subdivisions (a), (b), and (c). The regulations may give consideration to a school district's financial resources, ongoing deferred maintenance needs, and the nature of the project for which the hardship apportionment is requested. The waiver authorized in subdivision (b) may be applied by the board to any repayment otherwise required by law, regardless of apportionment date. 17589. The State Allocation Board shall develop board policies for the apportionment of funds appropriated for the containment or removal of asbestos materials in schools pursuant to Section 49410. The policies shall provide for the allocation of funds on a matching basis, or the board may determine, based on each application, to increase the allocation to any school district by the amount it determines is necessary to complete critical projects. In making policies pursuant to this section, the board may establish funding priorities based on a determination in each instance as to the imminence of the health hazard posed by the asbestos materials. 17590. The Asbestos Abatement Fund is hereby created, and notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all moneys deposited in this fund are continuously appropriated to be administered by the State Allocation Board for the purpose of making allocations to school districts and county offices of education pursuant to Sections 17589 and 49410. 17591. Each district desiring an apportionment pursuant to Section 17584 shall file with the State Allocation Board and receive approval of a five-year plan of the maintenance needs of the district over that five-year period. This plan may be amended from time to time. Any expenditure of funds from the district deferred maintenance fund shall conform to the plan approved by the State Allocation Board. 17592. From any moneys in the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund, the board shall make available to the Director of General Services such amounts as it determines necessary to provide the assistance, pursuant to this chapter, required by Section 15504 of the Government Code. 17592.5. The Joint Powers Southern California Regional Occupational Center and the Joint Powers Central County Occupational Center shall be deemed to be school districts for purposes of Sections 17582 to 17592, inclusive, and for the purposes of Section 17584.
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