Arizona Laws 15-1472. Community college district workforce development accounts; reports
A. Each community college district shall establish a separate workforce development account to receive only tax revenues authorized pursuant to section 42-5029, subsection E, paragraph 3 and Section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 3. Each community college district board shall approve the expenditure of these monies in accordance with section 15-1461 and consistent with subsection B of this section.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-1472
- Community college: means an educational institution that is operated by a district board and that provides a program of not more than four years' training in the arts, sciences and humanities beyond the twelfth grade of the public or private high school course of study or vocational education, including terminal courses of a technical and vocational nature and basic adult education courses. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- Community college tuition financing district: means a district that is organized pursuant to section 15-1409. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- Course: means organized subject matter in which instruction is offered within a given period of time and for which credit toward promotion, graduation or certification is usually given. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- District: means a community college district that is established pursuant to sections 15-1402 and 15-1403 or Section 15-1402. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- District board: means the community college district governing board. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- enrollment: means that a pupil is currently registered in the school district. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Fiscal year: means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Full-time equivalent student: means student enrollment for fifteen community college semester credit units per semester. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
- Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
B. Monies received pursuant to subsection A of this section shall be expended for workforce development and job training purposes. These expenditures may include:
1. Partnerships with businesses and educational institutions.
2. Additional faculty for improved and expanded classroom instruction and course offerings.
3. Technology, equipment and technology infrastructure for advanced teaching and learning in classrooms or laboratories.
4. Student services such as assessment, advisement and counseling for new and expanded job opportunities.
5. The purchase, lease or lease-purchase of real property, for new construction, remodeling or repair of buildings or facilities on real property.
C. The state treasurer shall transfer monies under this section into each district’s workforce development account by the fifteenth day of each month. The state treasurer shall also allocate and distribute any pooled interest earnings earned from revenues authorized in section 42-5029, subsection E, paragraph 3 and Section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 3 to each district in accordance with the method prescribed in subsection D, paragraph 2 of this section.
D. Revenues authorized for community college districts in section 42-5029, subsection E, paragraph 3 and Section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 3 shall be distributed by the state in the following manner:
1. For thirteen fiscal years beginning in fiscal year 2001-2002 the state treasurer shall allocate one million dollars per fiscal year for the purpose of bringing this state into compliance with the matching capital requirements prescribed in section 15-1463. The state treasurer shall distribute the monies authorized in this subsection to each district in the order in which each campus qualified for funding pursuant to section 15-1463.
2. After the monies have been paid each year to the eligible districts pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection, the state treasurer shall distribute monies from the workforce development fund to each community college district in the following manner:
(a) Each district shall receive the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. This subdivision does not apply to a community college tuition financing district established pursuant to section 15-1409.
(b) After each district has received the payments prescribed in subdivision (a) of this paragraph, the remainder of monies in the fund shall be distributed to each district according to each district’s full-time equivalent student enrollment percentage of the total statewide audited full-time equivalent student enrollment in the preceding fiscal year prescribed in Section 15-1466.01. The percentage distribution under this subdivision shall be adjusted annually on October 1 of each year.
E. Revenues received by community college districts shall not be used by the legislature to supplant or reduce any state aid authorized in this chapter or supplant any proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized in this article and article 5 of this chapter.
F. Monies received under this section shall not be considered to be local revenues for purposes of article IX, section 21, Constitution of Arizona.
G. Each community college district or community college that is owned, operated or chartered by a qualifying Indian tribe on its own Indian reservation shall submit a report once every two years of its workforce development plan activities and the expenditures authorized in this section to the governor, president of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, joint legislative budget committee and Arizona commerce authority by December 1 of every even-numbered year. The report shall include the purpose and goals for which the workforce development monies were expended by each district or community college together with a general accounting of the expenditures authorized in subsection B of this section. A copy of the final report shall also be provided to the secretary of state. For the purposes of this subsection, "qualifying Indian tribe" has the same meaning prescribed in Section 42-5031.01.