In addition to any other funding authorized by these
Regulations, the applicant is eligible for funding as a result of unusual
circumstances that created excessive project costs beyond the control of the
applicant. The Excessive Cost Hardship Grant shall be based on any of the
following:
(a) Excessive Cost due to
Geographic Location.
An applicant with a project that is located in a
geographic area designated in the Geographic Percentage Chart in Section
1859.83(a) is
eligible for an Excessive Cost Hardship Grant determined by multiplying the
indicated percentage factor shown in the Geographic Percentage Chart by each of
the following amounts:
(1) The Charter
School Facilities Program Rehabilitation Grant.
(2) The funding provided by Sections
1859.167.3(b), (c), and
(d).
(b) Excessive Cost for Projects that House No
More than 200 Pupils (Small Size Projects).
(1) If the project will house less than 101
pupils as determined by the project's classroom capacity calculated pursuant to
Education Code Section
17071.25(a)(2)(A),
the applicant is eligible for an Excessive Cost Hardship Grant equal to 12
percent of the funding provided by the Charter School Facilities Program
Rehabilitation Grant.
(2) If the
project will house between 101 and 200 pupils as determined by the project's
classroom capacity calculated pursuant to Education Code Section
17071.25(a)(2)(A),
the applicant is eligible for an Excessive Cost Hardship Grant equal to four
percent of the funding provided by the Charter School Facilities Program
Rehabilitation Grant.
(c)
Excessive Cost Due to Urban Location, Security Requirements and Impacted Site.
(1) The applicant is eligible for an
Excessive Cost Hardship Grant if the Useable Acres of the site for the project
are 60 percent or less of the CDE recommended site size based on the current
CBEDS Report at the site at the time of the CDE final plan approval for the
Charter School Facilities Program Rehabilitation project.
(2) The Excessive Cost Hardship Grant is
equal to 15 percent of the Charter School Facilities Program Rehabilitation
Grant and 15 percent of the funding authorized by Section
1859.167.3(b) for
a project with a site that is 60 percent of the CDE recommended site size plus
0.333 percent for each percentage decrease of the CDE recommended site size
below 60 percent.
(d)
Excessive cost due to accessibility and fire code requirements:
(1) The applicant is eligible for an
Excessive Cost Hardship Grant equal to three percent of the Charter School
Facilities Program Rehabilitation for accessibility and fire code
requirements.
(2) In lieu of the
three percent funding provided in (1), the applicant has the option of
requesting 50 percent of the amount determined in (2)(B), not to exceed 50
percent of the amount determined in (2)(C):
(A) Multiply the project's classroom
capacity, calculated pursuant to Education Code Section
17071.25(a)(2)(A),
by the Modernization Grant.
(B)
Determine the difference of the verified hard construction costs of the minimum
accessibility and fire code work necessary to receive approval from the DSA
minus seven percent of the amount in (2)(A) and the district matching share of
the Modernization Grant, pursuant to Section
1859.79.
(C) Determine the difference of 1. minus 2.:
1. Multiply the project's classroom capacity,
as determined in (2)(A), by the New Construction Grant.
2. The sum of the State and district share of
the Modernization Grant multiplied by the project's classroom capacity, as
determined in (2)(A).
(3) The applicant is eligible for an
Excessive Cost Hardship Grant of $84,082 for each new two-stop elevator
required to be included in a Charter School Facilities Program Rehabilitation
project by the DSA. This amount shall be adjusted annually in the manner
prescribed in Section
1859.78.
(4) The applicant is eligible for an
Excessive Cost Hardship Grant of $15,133 for each additional stop of the new
elevator required in (3) above for a Charter School Facilities Program
Rehabilitation project. This amount shall be adjusted annually in the manner
prescribed in Section
1859.78.
Notes
Cal.
Code Regs. Tit. 2, §
1859.167.3
1. New
section filed 10-3-2007; operative 10-3-2007 pursuant to Government Code
section
11343.4
(Register 2007, No. 40).
2. Renumbering of former section
1859.167.3 to new section
1859.167.5 and new section
1859.167.3 filed 12-18-2014;
operative 1-1-2015 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register 2014, No. 51).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
17070.35
and
17078.64,
Education Code. Reference: Sections
17075.10,
17075.15,
17078.54
and
17078.58,
Education Code.
1.
New section filed 10-3-2007; operative 10-3-2007 pursuant to Government Code
section
11343.4
(Register 2007, No. 40).
2. Renumbering of former section 1859.167.3
to new section 1859.167.5 and new section 1859.167.3 filed 12-18-2014;
operative 1/1/2015 pursuant
to Government Code section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register
2014, No. 51).
