Approval criteria for state funding assistance.
The superintendent of public instruction shall conditionally agree to state funding assistance for a school facility or facilities for a school district that demonstrates the following:
(1) The existence of unhoused students which for the purpose of this section shall mean current or projected enrolled students who are in excess of the capacity calculated for existing facilities within the district pursuant to chapter
392-343 WAC: Provided, That current or projected enrolled students shall not be designated as unhoused for a high school district of application which has a student enrollment of four hundred or less in grades nine through twelve, if the students involved or affected can be served without undue inconvenience in a neighboring school, or schools of larger size and the neighboring school district has indicated a willingness to serve, and has the capacity to house the applying district high school students; and
(2) The ability of the district to obtain capital funds to provide the local share required for state funding assistance: Provided, That the existence of unhoused students provision of subsection (1) of this section shall not be required for approval of the following school facilities projects: Interdistrict cooperative centers authorized by chapter
392-345 WAC, interdistrict transportation cooperatives authorized by chapter
392-346 WAC, and modernization and new-in-lieu of modernization construction authorized by chapter
392-347 WAC.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
28A.525.020. WSR 21-13-129, § 392-341-045, filed 6/22/21, effective 7/23/21; WSR 10-09-008, § 392-341-045, filed 4/8/10, effective 5/9/10; WSR 06-16-032, amended and recodified as § 392-341-045, filed 7/25/06, effective 8/25/06; WSR 98-19-139, § 180-25-045, filed 9/23/98, effective 10/24/98. Statutory Authority: RCW
28A.47.830. WSR 85-09-059 (Order 7-85), § 180-25-045, filed 4/17/85; WSR 83-21-064 (Order 9-83), § 180-25-045, filed 10/17/83.]