Capital Project Grant
23. (1) In this section, “capital asset” means, (a) a school site that provides or is capable of providing pupil accommodation and an addition or improvement to such a school site, (b) a school building, including a fixture of a school building, and an addition, alteration, renovation or major repair to a school building or a fixture of a school building, (c) furniture and equipment to be used in school buildings, (d) library materials for the initial equipping of a library in a school building, and (e) a water supply or electrical power supply on school property or the means of conveying water or electrical power to school property from outside the property; (“immobilisation”) “capital project” means a project for the acquisition of capital assets. (“projet d’immobilisations”) O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (1). (2) For the purposes of this section, a capital project is an approved short year capital project if the Minister gives a final written approval for the project during the short year. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (2). (3) For the purposes of this section, (a) an approved short year capital project is an approved short year growth capital project if the project is intended to result in an increase in the pupil places of a board or the purchase of land for the purposes of increasing the pupil places of a board; and (b) an approved short year capital project is an approved short year non-growth capital project if it is not an approved short year growth capital project. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (3). (4) A district school board shall be paid a grant in respect of each approved short year capital project of the board equal to the product of, (a) the lesser of the project cost specified in the final approval for the project referred to in subsection (2) and the actual expenditure of the district school board on the project; and (b) the rate determined under subsections (6) to (10). O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (4). (5) Despite section 3, the total of the instalments paid to the district school board in the short year on account of a grant payable under subsection (4) shall not exceed the total of the actual expenditures of the board on the project in the short year. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (5). (6) The rate for an approved short year non-growth capital project of a district school board is the rate set out in Column 3 of Table 2, opposite the listing in Column 1 for the district school board and the listing in Column 2 for the predecessor old board that proposed the project. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (6). (7) The rate for an approved short year growth capital project of a district school board is the rate set out in Column 4 of Table 2, opposite the listing in Column 1 for the district school board and the listing in Column 2 for the predecessor old board that proposed the project. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (7). (8) Despite subsections (6) and (7), the rate for an approved short year capital project in respect of a secondary school of a French-language district school board is the rate set out in Column 5 of Table 2, opposite the listing in Column 1 for the district school board and the listing in column 2 for the predecessor old board that proposed the project. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (8). (9) Subsections (6) to (8) do not apply to, (a) approved short year capital projects that fall under the 1998 facilities renewal program described in the Ministry memorandum dated March 12, 1998 to directors of education respecting the 1998 facilities renewal project; or (b) approved short year capital projects in respect of which no written approval specifying an estimated project cost was given by the Minister before January 1, 1998. O. Reg. 358/98, s. 1. (9.1) The agreement dated December 22, 1997 between the Minister and Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry County Roman Catholic Separate School Board and Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry County Board of Education is not a written approval specifying an estimated project cost for the purposes of clause (9) (b). O. Reg. 358/98, s. 1. (10) The rate for an approved short year capital project to which subsection (9) applies shall be deemed to be 1.0. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (10). (11) Any grant or portion of a grant that is payable to a district school board in respect of a capital project under a previous legislative grant regulation and that is not paid before January 1, 1998 shall be deemed, until the end of the short year, to be a grant payable under this Regulation. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (11). (12) Despite section 3, the total of the instalments paid to the district school board in the short year on account of a grant or portion of a grant payable under subsection (11) shall not exceed the total of the actual expenditures of the board on the project in the short year. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (12). (13) Any grant or portion of a grant that is payable under subsection (11) is not payable during the short year under any previous legislative grant regulation. O. Reg. 285/98, s. 23 (13). PART III   PAYMENTS BY SUPPORTED BOARD FOR SERVICES OF DESIGNATED BOARD