Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. Okay. We are going now to move on to our last item under item m, the prop facility use fees. Mr. Superintendent, do you have a staff person . Yes president norton i would like to ask Michael Davis to please come up and take us through this item. Thank you. Good evening superintendent, commissioners. My prior agreement i think deputy superintendent lee wanted to start. Never mind. I will do it myself. What you have before you is an information item regarding pro rata share fees that we allowed to charge our Charter Schools that receive property from us under prop 39. Weve had the same fee of 95 cents per square foot for over five years. It was last reviewed in 200910 and we kept it at that same amount then. Various groups from departments have reviewed the fees in line with the regulations in title v of the california code of regulations that stipulate how we can calculate the fee, so the basic framework is that we looked at
Various groups from departments have reviewed the fees in line with the regulations in title v of the california code of regulations that stipulate how we can calculate the fee, so the basic framework is that we looked at the entire Square Footage of School Facilities in the district inventory. We looked at the total Unrestricted Fund cost applicable to those facilities and come up with a per square foot fee we could charge under the regulations so after doing that review we have determined that the fee should be 2. 79 per square foot. In order to mitigate the Immediate Impact on the Charter Schools we thought it best to do the fee increase in two increments so we would go halfway next year to 1. 87 and then to the 79 in the following year. Also what we have done we notified all the Charter Schools attacked so they know what the rate would be so that is taken care of. Then we thought we would bring it for this public airing as an information item. The next thing by the end of this week
Their unique challenges. Two challenges that come up again and again they receive less money than traditional schools and limited access to affordable quality facilities. Theyre Public School students and observe equitable access to facilities and theyre required to provide the facilities equal to other schools. Historical sfusd has offered fair rates on to schools with facilities and allowing them to have a healthy balance between these issues. This proposal in front of you today however would result in a 181 increase in facilities cost for Charter Schools in just two years. These increase expenses will have an significant and detrimental impact on all Charter Schools and facilities. For example a school with a 20,000 square foot facility would experience this much of a increase for expenses. Schools would need to divert funds that are used for teachers and books and learning materials. The proposed increase to 2. 79 would further widen the gap between traditional Public Schools and C
Part of town that sets a lot of sunshine and typically the size of a roof that works for a about a 500,000 installation. The advantage of these installations is that they install it for free. They maintain it for 25 years and we get the power in the school at exactly the same rate we would pay if it came across a wire from hetch hetchy, so its sort of the universal winwin of going green. Now, on the flip side were also doing some of our own installations so were trying both. We have just finished the first one that they did for us at el dorado and the puc subcontracted the work out to their solar provider commissioner. The project was done complete on time and on schedule with the group and in fact the grand opening of the installation, and i think commissioner wynns was due to be one of the keynote speakers happened to fall on the day of the connecticut tragedy and it was canceled so that is still to happen so i cant speak to the particulars commissioner. Can i get you the information
Is still here. Hillary harmsome. Thank you. Thank you so much for your time tonight. Good evening president norton, superintendent and commissioners and district staff. I am hillary harmsome. Good pronunciation. I am with the Charter School association and behalf to speak for the member schools and our concern about the proposed increase. As a professional organization for charterer Public Schools our role is help charters navigate their unique challenges. Two challenges that come up again and again they receive less money than traditional schools and limited access to affordable quality facilities. Theyre Public School students and observe equitable access to facilities and theyre required to provide the facilities equal to other schools. Historical sfusd has offered fair rates on to schools with facilities and allowing them to have a healthy balance between these issues. This proposal in front of you today however would result in a 181 increase in facilities cost for Charter Schools