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h1189-05 Bill No. CS/HB 1189
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11 Representative(s) Diaz de la Portilla offered the following:
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18 (e) An eligible county may use funds provided pursuant
19 to s. 212.20(6)(e)7.e. for the following purposes only:
20 1. Fifteen percent of such funds shall be reserved for
21 use in a brownfield revolving loan program, or for use in a
22 program of microloans or other loans to support small
23 businesses existing in the brownfield area in which the
24 significant new facility is located.
25 2. Fifteen percent of such funds shall be reserved for
26 a contract between an eligible county and the United Way
27 organization serving such county, under which the United Way
28 organization agrees to administer a program to provide grants
29 to low-performing public schools in the county.
30 a. To be eligible for a grant under this program, a
31 school must be a public school in the eligible county that has
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1 been classified as a "D" or "F" school under standards used by
2 the Department of Education for grading public schools as part
3 of the annual School Accountability Report.
4 b. Grant funds awarded under this subparagraph may be
5 used in any manner deemed by the school principal to be
6 reasonably related to the improvement of the school; however,
7 such grant funds must be used to directly benefit students in
8 kindergarten through third grade at the school receiving the
9 grant.
10 c. The United Way organization shall develop
11 application guidelines and criteria to be used in reviewing
12 applications, with such guidelines and criteria subject to
13 approval by the governing body of the eligible county. Such
14 application guidelines, at a minimum, must require a school
15 applying for funds under this subparagraph to submit a
16 school-improvement plan that explains in detail the proposed
17 use of grant funds and how such use will directly benefit
18 students in kindergarten through third grade.
19 d. No more than 5 percent of the funds reserved under
20 this subparagraph may be used for administrative costs
21 associated with the establishment and operation of this grant
22 program.
23 3. The remainder of such funds shall be used for the
24 public purpose of paying for, or pledging as security for or
25 paying debt service on bonds or other obligations issued to
26 finance, the costs of acquisition, site preparation,
27 infrastructure development, construction, reconstruction,
28 renovation, expansion, or rehabilitation of the qualifying
29 site and significant new facility to be located thereon, or
30 for the costs of infrastructure and other improvements outside
31 the boundaries of the qualifying site but which are necessary
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1 or helpful to the development or operation of the significant
2 new facility, or for reimbursement of any such costs, and for
3 the costs incurred by it to remediate the qualifying site. The
4 eligible county shall actively accept and solicit
5 African-American and other minority participation in the
6 planning, design, construction, building, maintenance, and
7 operation of the significant new facility. However, if in any
8 fiscal year of the eligible county the funds provided under s.
9 212.20(6)(e)7.e. are in excess of the amount necessary in that
10 fiscal year to pay for the costs related to the bonds for the
11 significant new facility and qualifying site as authorized by
12 this subparagraph and to pay debt service on bonds or other
13 obligations related only to the costs of the bonds for
14 construction of the significant new facility issued to finance
15 all or any part of such costs, such excess funds shall be
16 applied toward or set aside for the redemption of any such
17 bonds and paid to lower the principal of the bonds.
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