2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 79-1241 — Core services; distribution of funds.

Section 79-1241
Core services; distribution of funds.

(1) Funds appropriated for core services shall be distributed proportionally to each educational service unit by the State Department of Education based on the fall membership in member districts in the preceding school fiscal year, except that no educational service unit shall receive less than two and one-half percent of the funds appropriated for core services.

(2) Any funds appropriated for distribution pursuant to this section for school fiscal year 2003-04 and each school fiscal year thereafter shall be distributed in ten as nearly as possible equal payments on the first business day of each month beginning in September of each school fiscal year and ending in June. Funds distributed pursuant to this section shall be used for core services with the approval of representatives of two-thirds of the member school districts, representing a majority of the students in the member school districts. If a member school district provides evidence satisfactory to the educational service unit that the district will provide core services for itself in a cost-efficient manner, the educational service unit may distribute funds directly to the district to be used for providing core services, or if all member school districts within the boundaries of an educational service unit together provide evidence satisfactory to the State Department of Education that the districts will provide core services for themselves in a more cost-efficient manner than the educational service unit, the department shall distribute funds directly to the districts to be used for providing core services.

(3) If two or more educational service units merge, the resulting merged educational service unit shall, for each of the two fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the merger takes place, receive core services funds under this section in an amount not less than the total of the core services funds that each of the merging educational service units received in the fiscal year immediately preceding the merger, except that if the appropriation for core services funds for either of the two fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the merger takes place is less than the appropriation for such funds for the fiscal year immediately preceding the merger, core services funds shall be reduced by a percentage equal to the ratio of the difference of such appropriation for the fiscal year immediately preceding the merger minus the appropriation for the fiscal year in question divided by the appropriation for the fiscal year immediately preceding the merger. Thereafter the distribution of core services funds to the merged educational service unit shall be as provided in subsection (1) of this section.

Source:

Laws 1997, LB 806, § 61

Laws 1998, LB 1110, § 2

Laws 2002, Second Spec. Sess., LB 5, § 3

Laws 2003, LB 53, § 1

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska