Notwithstanding any provisions of this article or Sections 16336 and 16339 thereof to the contrary, any school district, which has issued at least thirty-seven million dollars ($37,000,000) in bonds for the purpose of replacing structurally unsafe buildings and which lacks sufficient matching funds for a particular project or projects, as required under this article, may apply and the board may approve, a project or projects conditioned upon the district having levied or being required to levy, in the fiscal years 1974–75, 1975–76, and 1976–77, the entire twenty cent ($0.20) tax rate per one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation permitted under Section 39230 and applying the entire proceeds therefrom as local matching funds to an eligible project or projects.
Under those circumstances, the board may increase the basic computed state matching ratio of assistance in the amount which, when added to the sum of (1) the entire proceeds which have been collected from the aforementioned twenty cent ($0.20) tax levies at the time of the application and not yet applied as matching funds to previously approved projects and (2) any other funds which in the opinion of the board are or can be made currently available for the project or projects, would be necessary to construct minimum essential facilities for the project or projects as determined by the board. Not more than six million dollars ($6,000,000) of the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized by Section 16310, may be apportioned pursuant to this section.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018