2117. Reports. 1. The school authorities of each school district shall make a full report to the commissioner of education upon any particular matter relating to their schools whenever such report shall be required by said commissioner.
2. The school authorities of each such school district shall, on the first day of August in each year, make to the commissioner of education a report in writing for the year ending June thirtieth preceding. In districts under the jurisdiction of a district superintendent, such reports shall be first submitted to the district superintendent, in duplicate, and he shall approve one copy and file it with the commissioner of education. Such report shall be in such form as the commissioner of education shall approve; and every such report shall certify:
a. The whole time school has been maintained in their district during the year ending on June thirtieth previous to the date of such report, and stating what portion of the time such school has been taught by qualified teachers, and the whole number of days, including holidays, in which the school was taught by qualified teachers.
b. The amount of their drafts upon the county treasurer, collector or treasurer of the district for the payment of teachers' salaries during such year, and the amount of their drafts for the purchase of books and school apparatus during such year, and the manner in which such moneys have been expended.
c. The number of children taught in the district during such year by qualified teachers, and the aggregate days' attendance of all such children.
d. The number of children residing in their district, from birth and under eighteen years of age, who shall have been, on the thirtieth day of August last preceding the date of such report, legal residents of such district. Children supported at an orphan asylum shall not be included in such enumeration.
e. The number of vaccinated and unvaccinated children of school age in their district.
f. The amount of money paid for teachers' salaries, in addition to the public money paid therefor, the amount of taxes levied in such district for purchasing school sites, for building, hiring, purchasing, repairing and insuring schoolhouses, for fuel, for school libraries, or for any other purpose allowed by law.
g. Such additional information in relation to the schools under their management and control as the commissioner of education shall require.
3. The commissioner of education shall prepare, based on information submitted to him by school districts, periodic reports covering new school buildings giving information about them including but not limited to the following:
(1) Cost of site.
(2) Cost of site improvement including roads, parking, playfields, and utility lines to the building wall.
(3) Original furnishings, equipment and apparatus.
(4) Professional fees.
(5) Incidental costs.
(6) Total cost of building.
(7) Cost of building per pupil.
(8) Cost of building per gross square foot.
(9) Cost per gross square foot of the heating and ventilating.
(10) Cost per gross square foot of the plumbing.
(11) Cost per gross square foot of the electrical work.
(12) Square foot per pupil in the total gross area.
(13) Square foot per pupil in the net area of the regular and special classrooms.
(14) Square foot per pupil in the net area of other rooms used for educational, health, administrative or social purposes such as the cafeteria, auditorium, gymnasium, kitchen and library.
(15) Square foot per pupil of the remaining difference between the gross area and the sum of thirteen and fourteen which would include toilet rooms, general storage, corridors, stair enclosures, janitor closets, boiler rooms, building machinery rooms and the area occupied by the walls of the building.
(16) An outline of the school plan.
(17) A brief outline specification for the building construction.
(18) The name of the architect.
(19) The name of the mechanical engineer.
(20) The name of the structural engineer.
(21) Whether single or multiple bidding was used.
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