Arizona Administrative Code › Title 7 - EDUCATION › Chapter 6 - School Facilities Oversight Board › Article 5 - NEW SCHOOL FACILITY AND LAND FUNDING › Section R7-6-504 - Donations of Real Property

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A. If a school
				district wishes to receive funding to enable the school district to accept a
				donation of real property, as authorized under A.R.S. §
									41-5741, the school district shall
				complete and submit to the Board a form that is available on the Board's
				website and provide information regarding the real property to be donated. If
				the school district lacks some of the required information and needs funds to
				verify, gather, and submit the missing information, the school board shall
				submit a request for the estimated amount to obtain the missing information at
				the same time the school board submits the available information.
B. At an open meeting and after reviewing the
				information submitted under subsection (A) and hearing from members of the
				applicable school district, the Board shall make a decision regarding funding
				to accept the donation of real property. Before the meeting, the analysis and
				recommendation of the Board shall be available to Board members and the school
				district.
C. If the Board approves
				awarding the school district funds necessary to obtain all required
				information, the Board shall notify the school district. If the school district
				accepts the award, the school district may proceed to gather the required
				information. When the required information is submitted to the Board, the Board
				shall follow the procedures in subsection (B).
D. If the Board approves funding to enable a
				school district to accept A donation of real property, the Board shall notify
				the school district. The school district shall submit to the Board
				documentation that the governing board accepted donation of the real property
				and the property title was transferred to the school district. When this
				documentation is received, the Board shall direct the Division, under A.R.S.
				§
									41-5741(F), to
				distribute to the school district 20 percent of the fair-market value of the
				portion of donated property usable for academic purposes.
E. If funds were distributed to a school
				district under subsection (C) the Board shall make an adjustment for the actual
				cost at the time of the final distribution. The school district shall provide
				documentation to the Board of the actual expenditures from the funds provided.
				An expenditure exceeding $30,000 requires advance approval by the
				Board.
F. In conducting the
				analysis under subsection (B) to determine whether real property proposed for
				donation is appropriate as a school facility site or a school facility, the
				Board shall consider the following:
1.
				Location of the real property proposed for donation;
2. School district need for additional square
				footage to accommodate student capacity;
3. School district need for additional land
				for a school facility;
4. Usable
				acres in the proposed donation, taking into consideration the Board's approved
				range of acreage table;
5. Whether
				the proposed site donation can accommodate a school facility that meets the
				minimum adequacy guidelines or whether a proposed facility donation can be
				developed into a school facility that meets the minimum adequacy
				guidelines;
6. Estimated
				development costs;
7. Age and
				condition of a facility donation; and
8. Portion of the real property that can be
				used for academic purposes.