PROPOSED RULES
Original Notice.
Preproposal statement of inquiry was filed as WSR 04-12-111.
Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: WAC 180-33-015 Eligibility for state financial assistance.
Hearing Location(s): Educational Service District 123, 3918 West Court Street, Pasco, WA 98301, on August 25, 2005, at 8:30 a.m.
Date of Intended Adoption: August 26, 2005.
Submit Written Comments to: Larry Davis, Executive Director, P.O. Box 47206, Olympia, WA 98504-7206, e-mail ldavis@ospi.wednet.edu, fax (360) 586-2357, by August 10, 2005.
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities: Contact Laura Moore, Executive Assistant, by August 10, 2005, TTY (360) 664-3631 or (360) 725-6025.
Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects, Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: The proposed changes remove reference to a repealed WAC and add a definitive requirement to be met.
Reasons Supporting Proposal: This clarifies the rule.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.525.020.
Rule is not necessitated by federal law, federal or state court decision.
Name of Proponent: State Board of Education, governmental.
Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting, Implementation and Enforcement: Larry Davis, State Board of Education, Olympia, Washington, (360) 725-6025.
No small business economic impact statement has been prepared under chapter 19.85 RCW. Not applicable.
A cost-benefit analysis is not required under RCW 34.05.328. Not applicable.
July 8, 2005
Larry Davis
Executive Director
OTS-8196.2
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 91-12-058, filed 6/5/91,
effective 7/6/91)
WAC 180-33-015
Eligibility for state financial
assistance.
(1) In order to be eligible for state financial
assistance, a modernization project shall have as its
principal purpose one or more of the following:
(a) Bringing a facility into compliance with current building and health codes when so required by state or local health or safety officials;
(b) Changing the grade span grouping by facility by the
addition, deletion, or combination thereof of two or more
grades within the affected facility; ((or))
(c) The reduction of the number of operating school facilities in a district by combining the remaining school facilities through modernization and new capital construction so as to achieve more cost effective and efficient operation in the combined school facility or facilities. In order to be eligible for state financial assistance, such a project shall result in additional space for at least 100 additional pupils and the following enrollment in any combined facility:
(i) Elementary school facility -- 500 pupils;
(ii) Middle or junior high school facility -- 700 pupils;
(iii) Senior high school facility -- 850 pupils:
Provided, That modernization projects in school districts
with a high school enrollment of less than 850 pupils need not
comply with the enrollment figures set forth above: Provided
further, That unless the district ((meets an exception
provided in WAC 180-33-043 or)) demonstrates the existence of
unhoused students, state financial assistance for the new
construction component of a combined modernization and new
construction project shall be limited to the provision of WAC 180-33-040; or
(d) Meeting the educational program of the facility.
(2) School districts shall certify that a proposed modernization project will extend the life of the modernized school facility by at least twenty years.
(3) School districts shall be ineligible for state assistance for modernization of any school facility accepted by the school district board of directors prior to January 1, 1993, where the principal purpose of that modernization project is to:
(a) Restore building systems and subsystems that have deteriorated due to deferred maintenance;
(b) Perform piecemeal work on one section or system of a school facility;
(c) Modernize a facility or any section thereof which has been constructed within the previous twenty years;
(d) Modernize a facility or any section thereof which has received state assistance under the authority of this chapter within the previous twenty years;
(e) To modernize a senior high school facility in a district with a senior high school where there is existing space available to serve the students involved or affected in a neighboring senior high school without, in the judgment of the state board of education, an undue increase in the cost of transporting the students to and from school, decrease in educational opportunity, or proportional increase in the cost of instruction pursuant to chapter 180-25 WAC.
(4) School facilities accepted by the school district board of directors after January 1, 1993, shall be ineligible for state assistance for modernization of the facility or any section thereof where:
(a) The facility was constructed and occupied within the previous thirty years;
(b) The facility received state assistance under the authority of this chapter within the previous thirty years.
[Statutory Authority: [RCW 28A.525.020.] 91-12-058, § 180-33-015, filed 6/5/91, effective 7/6/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.47.830. 85-24-049 (Order 26-85), § 180-33-015, filed 11/27/85; 85-09-060 (Order 8-85), § 180-33-015, filed 4/17/85; 83-21-071 (Order 16-83), § 180-33-015, filed 10/17/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.47.073. 81-24-049 (Order 13-81), § 180-33-015, filed 12/1/81.]