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SECTION 8483.3-8484.5
8483.3. (a) The State Department of Education shall select applicants to participate in the program established pursuant to this article from among applicants that apply on forms and in a manner prescribed by the department. To the extent possible, the selection of applicants by the State Department of Education shall result in an equitable distribution of grant awards pursuant to Section 8483.7 to applicants in northern, southern, and central California, and in urban, suburban, and rural areas of California. (b) The State Department of Education shall consider the following in selecting schools to participate in the program established pursuant to this article, with primary emphasis given to items (1) through (4): (1) Strength of the educational component. (2) Quality of the educational enrichment component. (3) Strength of staff training and development component. (4) Scope and strength of collaboration, including demonstrated support of the schoolsite principal and staff. (5) Inclusion of a nutritional snack. (6) Employment of CalWORKs recipients. (7) Level and type of local matching funds. (8) Capacity to respond to program evaluation requirements. (9) Demonstrated fiscal accountability. (c) The State Department of Education shall develop reporting requirements and allocation procedures, including procedures to reimburse startup costs for programs established pursuant to this article. 8483.9. (a) A program participant receiving funding pursuant to this article may expend on indirect costs no more than the lesser of the following: (1) The school district's indirect cost rate, as approved by the State Department of Education for the appropriate fiscal year. (2) Five percent of the state program funding received pursuant to this article. (b) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this article may expend no more than 15 percent of that funding on administrative costs. For purposes of this section, administrative costs shall include indirect costs, as described in subdivision (a). (c) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this program shall ensure that no less than 85 percent of that funding is allocated to schoolsites for direct services to pupils. 8484.5. (a) All school-based before and after school programs established pursuant to Section 8481 that are in operation on the date of the enactment of the act adding this section shall elect one of the following options on or before July 1, 1999: (1) Continuing operation as a schoolage community child care services program pursuant to the remaining operative provisions of Article 22 (commencing with Section 8460). (2) Operating as an After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnerships Program pursuant to this article. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that any appropriation for programs established pursuant to Section 8481 be redirected to the appropriation made for programs established pursuant to Article 22 (commencing with Section 8460) or to the appropriation made for programs established pursuant to this article. The State Department of Education shall report the amounts that shall be redirected pursuant to this subdivision to the Department of Finance for approval and adjustment of the budget. The Controller shall adjust the appropriation amounts in accordance with budget revisions approved for this purpose by the Department of Finance.
