(A) The monies collected pursuant to this chapter are intended for school land acquisition costs or school facility costs.
(B) SCHOOL LAND ACQUISITION COSTS means a school district’s costs of acquisition of school land, by purchase, lease or other contractual arrangement.
(C) School land acquisition costs may include:
(1) The planning, design and legal costs incurred by a school district in connection with the formulation or adoption of a school land acquisition program; and
(2) The reasonable title and survey expenses, brokerage fees, attorney’s fees, architect fees, engineering fees and environmental investigation fees, and any other costs incurred by a school district in connection with the acquisition of school lands.
(D) SCHOOL FACILITY COSTS means those costs attributable to the projected increase in student population resulting from the development of a proposed subdivision, planned unit development or mobile home park, including the following:
(1) The costs incurred by a school district that are directly associated with the construction of school facilities, including expenditures for equipment;
(2) The costs incurred in the renovation or improvement of school facilities;
(3) The costs incurred by a school district that are directly related to construction of additions;
(4) The costs incurred by a school district that are directly associated with the acquisition of buildings that are to be devoted to use as a school building;
(5) Expenditures made by a school district for installment payments or lease payments on contracts or agreements that have a defined term and that result in the acquisition or leasing of a school building by the school district or in the leasing of temporary classrooms by the school district;
(6) Special assessments payable by a school district for capital improvements such as streets, curbs and drains; and
(7) The architectural, engineering, and legal costs incurred by a school district in constructing school facilities provided, however, that not more than 10% of the total costs estimated to be incurred in constructing those school facilities shall be devoted to architectural, engineering and legal costs.
(E) In no event shall school facility costs include routine repairs or maintenance of existing school facilities.
(Ord. passed 7-18-1973; Ord. passed 9-11-1973; Ord. passed 9-19-1973; Ord. passed 5-25-1993; Ord. passed 1-16-1997)