California Code of Regulations › Title 4 - Business Regulations › Division 15 - California School Finance Authority › Article 1.5 - Charter School Facility Grant Program › Section 10170.2 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For the purposes of this article, the following words and
				  phrases shall have the meaning as described below:
(a) "Applicant" shall mean the Charter
				School, educational management organization, or charter management organization
				applying on behalf of a Charter School for a grant under this
				article.
(b) "Application" shall
				mean a completed Charter School Facility Grant Program Online Application (CSFA
				Form 740-01; revised July 2018), incorporated herein by reference, as developed
				by the Authority, and described in Section
				10170.6.
(c) "Authority" shall mean the California
				School Finance Authority.
(d)
				"Average Daily Attendance" (ADA) shall mean the unit of attendance, as reported
				by the Department for the second period of the school year.
(e) "Average Daily Attendance Cap" (ADA Cap)
				shall mean for the 2017-18 Fiscal Year, an amount equal to one thousand one
				hundred seventeen dollars ($1,117) per unit of ADA. Commencing with the 2018-19
				Fiscal Year and moving forward, the amount of funding provided per unit of ADA
				in the preceding Fiscal Year, as adjusted by the Cost Of Living Adjustment
				Index or the amount specified in the current Budget Act.
(f) "Chartering Authority" shall mean the
				school district, county board of education, or State Board of Education that
				granted a Charter School's petition to become a Charter School pursuant to
				Education Code Section
				47605.
(g) "Charter School" shall mean a school
				established and operating pursuant to the Charter Schools Act of 1992
				(Education Code Section
				47600, et
				seq.). Except where the defined term First Year Charter School is specifically
				used, Charter School shall also be meant to include schools that otherwise meet
				the definition of First Year Charter School.
(h) "Cost Of Living Adjustment Index" (COLA
				Index) shall mean a percentage change in the annual average value of the
				Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and
				Services for the United States, as published by the United States Department of
				Commerce for the 12-month period ending in the third quarter of the prior
				Fiscal Year. This percentage change shall be determined using the latest data
				available as of May 10 of the preceding Fiscal Year compared with the annual
				average value of the same deflator for the 12-month period ending in the third
				quarter of the second preceding Fiscal Year, using the latest data available as
				of May 10 of the preceding Fiscal Year, as reported by the Department of
				Finance.
(i) "Department" shall
				mean the California Department of Education.
(j) "Estimated Annual Entitlement" shall mean
				the estimated grant amount to which a Charter School is entitled as calculated
				pursuant to Section
				10170.7 prior to the first
				apportionment.
(k) "Facility
				Invoice Expenditure Report" shall mean the annual Charter School Facility Grant
				Program Facility Invoice Expenditure Report (CSFA Form 740-02; revised October
				2017) herein incorporated by reference.
(l) "Fair Market Rent" shall the mean amount
				of money a property would rent or lease for if it was available at the time the
				appraisal was conducted.
(m) "Final
				Fiscal Year Entitlement" shall mean the final calculated grant amount to which
				a Grantee is entitled based on the calculation prescribed in Section
				10170.8.
(n) "First Year Charter School" shall mean a
				school that anticipates beginning operations as a Charter School in the Fiscal
				Year for which it submits an Application and was not open the previous school
				year.
(o) "Fiscal Year" shall mean
				the school year for which an Application for grant funds is
				submitted.
(p) "Free or
				Reduced-Price Meal Eligibility" or "FRPM Eligibility" shall mean the percentage
				of enrolled students in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade or students ages
				5 through 17, whichever is greater, eligible for free or reduced-price meals,
				as reported by the Department and certified through the annual Fall 1 data
				submission to the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System
				(CALPADS).
(q) "Good Standing"
				shall mean the Applicant satisfies all three of the following conditions:
1) compliance with the terms of its Charter
				Agreement,
2) no pending or
				outstanding Notices of Violation described in Education Code Section
				47607(g),
				and
3) no pending or outstanding
				Notices of Intent to Revoke described in Education Code Section
				47607(h).
				The Authority will rely on information prepared by the Chartering Authority and
				the submission of a Good Standing Confirmation Form (GSCF) (CSFA Form 1119),
				incorporated herein by reference.