BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: March 20, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Joan Buchanan, Chair
SB 41 (Wright) - As Introduced: December 11, 2012
SENATE VOTE : 34-0
SUBJECT : School district reorganization: base revenue limit:
Wiseburn Unified School District
SUMMARY : Repeals the methodology for creating a blended
revenue limit for the newly-created Wiseburn Unified School
District.
EXISTING LAW specifies the methodology to be used to create a
blended revenue limit for the newly-created Wiseburn Unified
School District based on the existing revenue limits for the
Wiseburn School District (currently an elementary district) and
the Centinela Valley Union High School District (some of whose
students will attend the Wiseburn Unified District).
FISCAL EFFECT : This bill is keyed nonfiscal.
COMMENTS : Last year Senator Wright authored SB 477 (Chapter
730, Statutes of 2012) which addressed issues of repayment of
bonded indebtedness, distribution of debt capacity, and the
establishment of a revenue limit related to the creation of the
Wiseburn Unified School District (WUSD). WUSD consists of all
of the territory of the current Wiseburn elementary district,
which makes up a portion of the territory of the Centinela
Valley Union High School District. SB 477 required the
calculation of a blended revenue limit for the new district
using the following methodology:
1)Multiply the Wiseburn Elementary revenue limit per average
daily attendance (ADA) in 2012-13 by nine (for the nine grade
levels in the K-8 district).
2)Multiply the Centinela revenue limit per ADA in 2012-13 by
four (for the four grade levels in the 9-12 district).
3)Add the amount in a) and b).
4)Divide the amount in c) by 13.
Governor Brown signed SB 477 with a message that read, in part:
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"I am signing Senate Bill 477 with a commitment from
the author and the Wiseburn School District to
introduce clean-up legislation to correct the revenue
limit calculation in the bill?"
According to the author's office, repealing the methodology for
creating the blended revenue limit is the cleanup requested by
the Governor. With this repeal, the revenue limit of the new
district will be calculated in the same manner as for all other
district reorganizations. That methodology is based on: (1)
revenue limits of each of the involved districts, (2) the
proportion of ADA that each district will contribute to the new
district as determined by the county superintendent of schools,
and (3) salary schedule differences between the districts. The
primary difference between the methodology required by SB 477
and the methodology required for all other districts under
current law is that SB 477 assumes that the Centinela ADA would
make up four-thirteenths of the ADA of the new district,
whereas the normal methodology requires the county
superintendent to determine how much ADA Centinela will
contribute to the new district.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to
approve a district reorganization proposal. The urgency of
this bill is to allow the reorganization to be on the SBE's May
2013 agenda.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Wiseburn School District
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087