HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/HB 1189
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11 Representative(s) Brutus offered the following:
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18 (e) An eligible county shall use funds provided
19 pursuant to s. 212.20(6)(e)7.e. for the following purposes
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21 1. Ten percent of such funds shall be reserved for use
22 in the Miami-Dade County brownfield revolving loan program, or
23 for use in a program of microloans or other loans to support
24 small businesses existing in the brownfield area in which the
25 significant new facility is located.
26 2. Ten percent of such funds shall be reserved for a
27 contract between an eligible county and the United Way
28 organization serving such county, under which the United Way
29 organization agrees to administer a program to provide grants
30 to low-performing public schools in the county.
31 a. To be eligible for a grant under this program, a
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1 school must be a public school in the eligible county that has
2 been classified as a "D" or "F" school under standards used by
3 the Department of Education for grading public schools as part
4 of the annual School Accountability Report.
5 b. Grant funds awarded under this subparagraph may be
6 used in any manner deemed by the school principal to be
7 reasonably related to the improvement of the school, provided,
8 however, that such grant funds must be used to directly
9 benefit students in kindergarten through third grade at the
10 school receiving the grant.
11 c. The United Way organization shall develop
12 application guidelines and criteria to be used in reviewing
13 applications, with such guidelines and criteria subject to
14 approval by the governing body of the eligible county. Such
15 application guidelines, at a minimum, must require a school
16 applying for funds under this subparagraph to submit a
17 school-improvement plan that explains in detail the proposed
18 use of grant funds and how such use will directly benefit
19 students in kindergarten through third grade.
20 d. No more than 5 percent of the funds reserved under
21 this subparagraph may be used for administrative costs
22 associated with the establishment and operation of this grant
23 program.
24 3. The remainder of such funds shall be used for the
25 public purpose of paying for, or pledging as security for or
26 paying debt service on bonds or other obligations issued to
27 finance, the costs of acquisition, site preparation,
28 infrastructure development, construction, reconstruction,
29 renovation, expansion, or rehabilitation of the qualifying
30 site and significant new facility to be located thereon, or
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1 the boundaries of the qualifying site but which are necessary
2 or helpful to the development or operation of the significant
3 new facility, or for reimbursement of any such costs, and for
4 the costs incurred by it to remediate the qualifying site.
5 However, if in any fiscal year of the eligible county the
6 funds provided under s. 212.20(6)(e)7.e. are in excess of the
7 amount necessary in that fiscal year to pay for the costs
8 related to the bonds for the significant new facility and
9 qualifying site as authorized by this subparagraph and to pay
10 debt service on bonds or other obligations related only to the
11 costs of the bonds for construction of the significant new
12 facility issued to finance all or any part of such costs, such
13 excess funds shall be applied toward or set aside for the
14 redemption of any such bonds and paid to lower the principal
15 of the bonds.
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