State Allocation Board Increases Grant Amounts and Impact Fees
On January 22, the State Allocation Board (SAB) met to approve an adjustment to School Facility Program (SFP) grants, and to Level I development impact fees.
SAB Approves Priority Funding Apportionments
The State Allocation Board (Board) met on Wednesday, September 25 to hear a number of business items, including approval of Priority Funding apportionments and adoption of Career Technical Education Facilities Program and Charter School Facilities Program regulatory amendments.
Gayle Miller, the Board chair, congratulated Assembly Member O’Donnell and others for the passage of AB 48, which, if signed by the Governor, will place the 2020 state school bond on the ballot.
Keeping Our Eye on the Ball
In my inaugural Message from the Chair, I thanked Don Ulrich for his leadership as the outgoing CASH Chair and formally introduced myself to you. I spoke of having ‘high hopes’ for faster implementation of State bond funds for California schools, but ‘hope’ is not a strategy. My primary focus as Chair of the CASH Board: Full implementation of Proposition 51 to fund previously approved School Facility Program (SFP) projects and support for a 2020 bond as a bridge to a sustainable capital funding system to address current and future needs. In this Message, I will provide updates to our membership on these foundational issues for the organization.
Call for Nominations – Legislative Advisory Committee
The CASH Nominating Committee is now accepting nominations to fill three (3) public sector seats and three (3) private sector seats on the Legislative Advisory Committee (LAC).
The LAC is advisory in nature. Its purpose is to provide the CASH Board of Directors (Board) with an annual draft legislative platform and recommendations on action/positions to be taken by the organization on existing or pending legislation. The Board Policy for the LAC states that the Nominating Committee shall solicit names from the general membership and present a slate of candidates to the CASH Board of Directors for approval. Self-nominations are encouraged.
Message From the Chair – Know Your Number
My time as Chair of the CASH Board of Directors has drawn to a close; this will be my final Message from the Chair. It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve the CASH organization and its members, and I leave with a sense of humble accomplishment and hope for the future. I look forward to being a resource for our incoming Chair, Julie Arthur with Palm Springs USD, as she continues CASH’s important work. I would like to thank my colleagues on the CASH Board who I have served with, as well as each of our members for the honor of serving as your leader these past two years. In addition, I would like to thank the CASH past chairs that have been an invaluable resource to me during the last two years. I would like to use my last Message to reflect on what we have accomplished, as well as looking forward to future challenges for the CASH organization.