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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.

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March Facility Planners Meeting Update 2019

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The CASH Facility Planners Meeting Update for March 2019 is now available and includes information regarding:

  • Legislative Update: School Bond Bill Introduced
  • Budget Update: CASH Advocacy on Proposition 51 and Full Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program
  • 2019 CASH NextGen Symposium – March 21-22, Long Beach
  • Upcoming Networking Mixers

Click here to view the entire update.

~ CASH Staff

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State Allocation Board Hears Appeals, Routine Business, Emergency Response Report

Today the State Allocation Board (Board) met to hear a number of items, including a selection of appeals and a report on emergency response to natural disasters.

Executive Officer Statement

In her Executive Officer statement, Lisa Silverman provided the following updates:

  • Applications Received Beyond Bond Authority – The Office of Public School Construction (OPSC) has received sufficient requests for Modernization funding by the end of February.  OPSC will send out an email notification once this occurs, and incoming applications will then be placed on the Applications Received Beyond Bond Authority List.
  • Full Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program – OPSC received 261 applications worth $324 million representing 70 school districts for the first filing round of the program, which has $37.5 million available.  OPSC is processing these applications and anticipates presenting them to the Board for approval by June 2019.  The second filing round has $60 million available and will be open from May 1, 2019 to May 30, 2019.
  • Career Technical Education Facilities Program (CTEFP) Update – OPSC received approximately 200 applications for the fifth CTEFP funding cycle, which closed February 15, 2019.  OPSC anticipates presenting qualifying projects to the Board for approval in May 2019, at which point $250 million in CTEFP bond authority from Proposition 51 will remain to be allocated.
  • Priority Funding Apportionments – On October 24, 2018, 226 projects worth $441.9 million received priority funding apportionments.  As of January 22, 2019, 137 of 158 projects required to submit a valid Fund Release Authorization (Form SAB 50-05) had done so.  The remaining 21 projects were returned to the Unfunded List (Lack of AB 55 Loans) with a new Unfunded Approval date of January 22, 2019.
  • Regulations Update – Regulations approved by the Board in August 2018 regarding criteria for determining the ranking of funding applications for CTEFP projects took effect January 24, 2018.
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Budget Letter to Governor Newsom – Fiscal Year Budget 2019/20

Dear CASH members,

Click here to view the letter sent yesterday from CASH to Governor Newsom regarding the fiscal year 2019-20 budget. The letter addresses three issues:

  • School Facilities Program (Prop 51) backlog
  • Full-Day Kindergarten School Facilities Program
  • School Impact Fees

This letter outlines our budget priorities for the year. Note that we will also advocate these positions on the legislative and regulatory front.

~ CASH Staff

 

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