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                                  HOUSE BILL 1999

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Holland and Grant.

 

Read first time February 18, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Education.Allowing school districts and buildings to retain savings from underexpenditures of apportioned energy budgets.


     AN ACT Relating to common school energy efficiency incentives; and amending RCW 28A.505.100 and 28A.505.160.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 28A.505.100 and 1990 c 33 s 420 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) The budget shall set forth the estimated revenues for the ensuing fiscal year, the estimated revenues for the fiscal year current at the time of budget preparation, the actual revenues for the last completed fiscal year, and the reserved and unreserved fund balances for each year.  The estimated revenues from all sources for the ensuing fiscal year shall not include any revenue not anticipated to be available during that fiscal year:  PROVIDED, That school districts, pursuant to RCW 28A.505.110 can be granted permission by the superintendent of public instruction to include as revenues in their budgets, receivables collectible in future fiscal years.

     (2) The budget shall set forth by detailed items or classes the estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year, the estimated expenditures for the fiscal year current at the time of budget preparation, and the actual expenditures for the last completed fiscal year.  Total salary amounts, full-time equivalents, and the high, low, and average annual salaries, shall be displayed by job classification within each budget classification.  If individual salaries within each job classification are not displayed, districts shall provide the individual salaries together with the title or position of the recipient and the total amounts of salary under each budget class upon request.  Salary schedules shall be displayed.  In districts where negotiations have not been completed, the district may budget the salaries at the current year's rate and restrict fund balance for the amount of anticipated increase in salaries, so long as an explanation shall be attached to the budget on such restriction of fund balance.

     (3) The budget shall apportion the district energy budget to all individual school buildings within the district.  Savings from underexpenditure of apportioned energy budgets shall be managed as follows:

     (a) Thirty percent of the savings shall be returned to the district to be used as desired by the district.

     (b) Seventy percent of the savings shall be retained by the individual school to be used as desired by the individual school.

 

     Sec. 2.  RCW 28A.505.160 and 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 118 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:

     Except as provided in RCW 28A.505.100 and this section, all appropriations for any school district upon which their budget is based shall lapse at the end of the fiscal year.  At the expiration of said period all appropriations shall become null and void and any claim presented thereafter against any such appropriation for the fiscal year just closed shall be provided for in the appropriation for the next fiscal year:  PROVIDED, That this shall not prevent payments upon in completed improvements in progress at the close of the fiscal year.