facilities using a uniform estimate of costs as established in Section 59144120. Individual district allotments must be based on the district facilities need relative to the state total facilities need; (4)(3) fifteen percent of the funds allocated annually to the school districts must be distributed based on equalized effort defined as the prior five average expenditures for capital years’ projects and debt service, including leasepurchase obligations and installment purchase obligations, for school instructional facilities divided by the average assessed value of all property subject to ad valorem school taxation and adjusted to reflect an equalized per pupil mill value. Individual district allotments must be based on a equalized effort relative to the state total equalized effort. district’s The amount included for leasepurchase obligations and installment purchase obligations shall not include the costs of utilities or operation and maintenance of the leased facility; (5)(4) a annual allotment must be the sum of the district’s four amounts calculated as provided in this section. Funds from a allotment shall be made available as needed once district’s approval is received from the State Board of Education pursuant to Chapter 23 of this title.” SECTION 17. Section 591449 of the 1976 Code is repealed. SECTION 18. Section 591980 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: 591980. No teacher or other employee shall may be “Section employed or any purchase made except in a duly called meeting of the board, of which meeting each member has been notified in writing by the clerk of the board at least three days in advance thereof, unless a written waiver of such notice of meeting is signed by each member of the board, and unless such action or the memoranda of the terms of any such contract of employment or purchase shall be duly recorded in the minutes of such meeting and approved by the board. No contract shall may be entered into with teachers who are under a teaching contract in South Carolina before April fifteenth of each year. In lieu of making a particular purchase, the board may request the Purchasing and Property Division of the Budget and Control Board to make such purchase.” Part IV Changes to the 1976 Code other than in Title 59
facilities using a uniform estimate of costs as established in Section 59144120. Individual district allotments must be based on the district facilities need relative to the state total facilities need; (4)(3) fifteen percent of the funds allocated annually to the school districts must be distributed based on equalized effort defined as the prior five years’ average expenditures for capital projects and debt service, including leasepurchase obligations and installment purchase obligations, for school instructional facilities divided by the average assessed value of all property subject to ad valorem school taxation and adjusted to reflect an equalized per pupil mill value. Individual district allotments must be based on a district’s equalized effort relative to the state total equalized effort. The amount included for leasepurchase obligations and installment purchase obligations shall not include the costs of utilities or operation and maintenance of the leased facility; (5)(4) a district’s annual allotment must be the sum of the four amounts calculated as provided in this section. Funds from a district’s allotment shall be made available as needed once approval is received from the State Board of Education pursuant to Chapter 23 of this title.” SECTION 17. Section 591449 of the 1976 Code is repealed. SECTION 18. Section 591980 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: “Section 591980. No teacher or other employee shall may be employed or any purchase made except in a duly called meeting of the board, of which meeting each member has been notified in writing by the clerk of the board at least three days in advance thereof, unless a written waiver of such notice of meeting is signed by each member of the board, and unless such action or the memoranda of the terms of any such contract of employment or purchase shall be duly recorded in the minutes of such meeting and approved by the board. No contract shall may be entered into with teachers who are under a teaching contract in South Carolina before April fifteenth of each year. In lieu of making a particular purchase, the board may request the Purchasing and Property Division of the Budget and Control Board to make such purchase.” Part IV Changes to the 1976 Code other than in Title 59
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