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4.N Education

The major State funding program for providing permanent school facilities is the Leroy
F. Green State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976, which is funded by State bonds.
Senate Bill 50 (SB 50) enacted on November 4, 1998, established the School Facility Program
which provided school bond construction funding of approximately $9.2 billion and established a
new program to provide state funding for school facilities. The legislation states that local
agencies are restricted, with but a few exceptions, from exacting fees or other requirements to
mitigate the effects of new land development on school facilities beyond the fee amounts
authorized by SB 50. The State Allocation Board is responsible for determining the allocation of
State resources used for the construction and modernization of local public schools. The State
Allocation Board increases the base developer fee rates biennially. The statutory fees (known as
Level 1 fees) approved by the State Allocation Board on January 30, 2008, are $2.97 per square
foot (sq.ft.) of new residential and $0.47 per sq.ft. for commercial and industrial development.
Non-unified school districts share the maximum authorized development fee based on
agreements between the districts.

School districts are eligible to increase fees equal to one-half the cost of providing new
school facilities (or Level II fees) if they meet two of the four following requirements set forth in
Government Code Section 65995.5(b)(3):

1. The school district is an elementary school district with a substantial portion of its
students enrolled on a multi-track year-round calendar;

2. The school district has placed at least one general obligation bound measure on the
ballot in the last four years, and the measure received at least 50 percent plus one of
the votes cast;

3. The school district has issued debt or incurred obligations for capital outlay in an
amount equivalent to the percentage of its bonding capacity specified in Government
Code Section 65995.5(b)(3)(C); and/or

4. At least 20 percent of the teaching stations within the school districts are relocatable
classrooms.

With Level II fees, it is assumed that the State, through the issuance of statewide general
obligation bonds, will provide the other half of the cost of new schools and, therefore, fully fund
new construction.

Facilities Needs Analysis Saugus Union School District, Dolinka Group, Inc., July 16, 2008; and School Facilities
Need Analysis William S. Hart Union High School District, February 11, 2009.

County of Los Angeles Department of Regional Planning Skyline Ranch Project
PCR Services Corporation July 2009

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