Proposition 30, The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012, approved by the voters on November 6, 2012 (sunset in 2017), and Proposition 55, The California Extension of the Proposition 30 Income Tax Increase Initiative, approved by the voters on November 8, 2016, temporarily increase the state's sales tax and the personal income tax rates.  Alameda Unified School District will receive funds from the EPA based on the District’s proportionate share of the statewide revenue limit amount. The State of California will make a corresponding reduction to Alameda Unified’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) entitlement.  As the State will reduce LCFF funding by the amount of EPA revenue, the district will move corresponding expenditures to the EPA.

Proposition 55 required that the use of EPA funds be determined by the governing board at an open public meeting.  EPA funds are restricted and may not be spent on administrative expenditures.  It is the staff’s recommendation that certificated salaries and benefits from unrestricted general fund (resource 0000) be transferred to unrestricted general fund (resource 1400).