Section 151.30  Application for School Construction Project Grant Entitlement

a)         A school district seeking a school construction project grant entitlement shall submit an application that includes a District Facilities Plan.  A district shall annually update its application in order to establish eligibility for a construction grant.

b)         Applications shall be addressed as follows:

Illinois State Board of Education

School Construction Program

100 North First Street

Springfield, Illinois  62777-0001

c)         Applications or updates must be received at the address shown in subsection (b) of this Section by April 1 preceding the beginning of the fiscal year in question.  Each application or update must include the Capital Development Board's program statement as defined in 71 Ill. Adm. Code 40.

d)         An application that is incomplete will be returned and will not be processed until it is complete.  An application must be complete by the applicable filing deadline in order to be considered.  All information contained in the application shall be subject to verification and correction by the State Board of Education and the Capital Development Board by means including on-site inspection and review of documents.

e)         Each application shall include the following information.

1)         A narrative description of the present educational program of the district and anticipated changes in the educational program over the next five years, including:

A)        the number of schools currently operated by the district;

B)        the configuration of the district's schools by grade level;

C)        the basis upon which students are assigned to the district's schools; and

D)        the nature and estimated impact of any changes in these factors over the next five years.

2)         A description of the present and projected financial position of the district, including but not limited to the availability of current revenue, fund balances, the amount of general obligation debt of the district, and the amount of unused bonding power.  This requirement may be met by attaching or, if already on file with the State Board, incorporating by reference:

A)        a copy of the district's basic financial statements (i.e., Statement of Revenues Received/Revenues, Expenditures Disbursed/Expenditures, Other Financing Sources (Uses), and Changes in Fund Balances) from the district's Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending June 30 immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the application or update is submitted;

B)        a copy of Part III (Budget Summary) and Part IV (Summary of Cash Transactions) from the School District Budget Form for the fiscal year in which the application or update is submitted; and

C)        a statement showing the amount of the district's unused bonding power as determined under Article 19 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/Art. 19].

3)         A description of the district's maintenance plan and schedule, including but not limited to:

A)        the maximum authorized operations and maintenance tax rate of the district;

B)        the rate at which the operations and maintenance taxes were last extended;

C)        the amount of operations and maintenance expenditures for the last fiscal year;

D)        a statement assuring that new, renovated, and existing facilities are being or will be properly maintained; and

E)         a brief explanation of how the district intends to maintain new, renovated, and existing facilities.

4)         Facility inventory information, including:

A)        a listing of each parcel of land, building, building addition, or other structure owned or used by the district to house its operations or held by the district for investment or revenue-producing purposes;

B)        for each parcel of land, building, building addition, or other structure, a listing of the following information, as applicable:

i)          the facility type;

ii)         the ownership class;

iii)         an indication of whether the structure is a main building or a building addition;

iv)        the functional age of the building or addition as determined under Section 151.50(d)(2) of this Part;

v)         the enrollment capacity as determined pursuant to the standards specified in Section 151.50(d) of this Part;

vi)        the type of school housed in the building or building addition;

vii)        the number of students currently housed in the facility;

viii)       the number of inadequately housed students currently housed in the facility as determined under Section 151.50(c) and (d) of this Part;

ix)        an indication of the district's plans for the facility within the next five years; and

x)         an indication of which planned activities are the subject of a request for a school construction project grant.

f)          Each application submitted on or after July 1, 2007 shall also include information demonstrating that the project conforms to the "green building" requirements of Section 5-40 of the School Construction Law [105 ILCS 230/5-40].  Conformance may be demonstrated by providing evidence of:

1)         certification under the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System [105 ILCS 230/5-40] posted at www.usgbc.org (2008; no later editions or revisions are incorporated); or

2)         a rating under the Green Building Initiative's Green Globes Green Building Rating System [105 ILCS 230/5-40] posted at www.thegbi.org/commercial/about-green-globes/rating-and-evaluation-process.asp (2007; no later editions or revisions are incorporated); or

3)         compliance with green building standards established by the Illinois Capital Development Board, when codified by that agency in its rules in Title 71 of the Illinois Administrative Code.

(Source:  Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 7410, effective April 22, 2008)