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      Fresno

      How does the State’s diversion of school property taxes affect FRESNO COUNTY?

       

      $170,000,000 of Fresno County property taxes allocated to education are taken to fund unrelated State obligations each year.  In 2010-11, $169,447,367 was taken.  In 2011-12, $170,009,649. 

       

      This includes the entire Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (which supplements a county’s low-wealth districts), plus $30 million a year of property tax directly allocated to specific school districts, and $5 million directly allocated to community college districts.

       

      After having a significant portion of their school property taxes redirected, Fresno County schools did not receive $183,098,084 of their state funding until after the 2010-11 school year was over. The deferred payments grew to $271,734,999 for the 2011-12 school year, before declining (as a result of Prop 30) to $188,034,640 this past summer.  And this summer?  $130,824,226 of deferrals were announced in the First Principal Apportionment for 2013-14 on February 20th, with up to 50% more on the Statutory books. 

       

      All districts in Fresno suffer from these delays.  Districts with high local property tax values experience less disruption (just 4% of total district revenues were delayed for Sierra Unified in 2011-12) compared with those that get the vast majority of their funding from the state (Washington Unified had 19% of its annual revenues arrive after kids had left for the summer).

       

      District Name

      District Type

      Average Daily Attendance

      2012-13 English Learner, Low Income and Foster Youth Unduplicated Percentage

      % of Total Revenues Received After End of 2011-12 School Year

      Clovis Unified

      UNIFIED

      37,216

      40%

      17%

      Sierra Unified

      UNIFIED

      1,463

      47%

      4%

      Central Unified

      UNIFIED

      14,335

      68%

      18%

      Fowler Unified

      UNIFIED

      2,266

      80%

      15%

      Kerman Unified

      UNIFIED

      4,622

      84%

      19%

      Laton Joint Unified

      UNIFIED

      689

      84%

      16%

      Sanger Unified

      UNIFIED

      8,976

      84%

      16%

      Caruthers Unified

      UNIFIED

      1,278

      87%

      14%

      Riverdale Joint Unified

      UNIFIED

      1,510

      87%

      13%

      Selma Unified

      UNIFIED

      6,152

      89%

      17%

      Firebaugh-Las Deltas Joint Unified

      UNIFIED

      2,148

      92%

      15%

      Fresno Unified

      UNIFIED

      66,494

      92%

      16%

      Kings Canyon Joint Unified

      UNIFIED

      9,363

      94%

      15%

      Coalinga/Huron Joint Unified

      UNIFIED

      3,990

      95%

      10%

      Washington Unified

      UNIFIED

      2,402

      98%

      19%

      Mendota Unified

      UNIFIED

      2,718

      99%

      16%

      Parlier Unified

      UNIFIED

      3,041

      100%

      18%

      Golden Plains Unified

      UNIFIED

      1,816

      100%

      10%

       

      It’s time to grant Fresno County schools and community colleges the same protection for their stable, reliable, local property taxes that cities, the county, and special districts (mosquito abatement, lighting, flood, libraries, parks, hospitals) have enjoyed for a decade.