HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 11
(By Delegates Campbell, Williams, Beach, Canterbury, Crosier,
Duke, Eldridge, Fragale, Lane, Leggett, Longstreth, Louisos,
Marshall, Paxton, Perry, Poling, Roberts, Spencer, Stephens,
Stevens, Sumner, Tabb, Tansill, Wells, and Wysong
)
(February 6, 2006)
Expressing the urgency of the House for advancing appropriations of
state aid to county boards experiencing serious financial
difficulty attributable to the substantial rise in the motor
fuel costs
for the transportation of students.
WHEREAS, The Public School Support Plan commonly referred to
as the school aid formula includes a series of computations
designed to provide an equitable base level of funding from state
and county resources for the operation of county school systems;
and
WHEREAS, The Public School Support Plan includes computations
for the operational costs of providing for the transportation of
students, including the costs of motor fuel, using the actual
expenditures of the counties for the latest available fiscal year;
and
WHEREAS, Use of the actual expenditures for the latest
available fiscal year to determine the Public School Support Plan
appropriation for the next school year results in a two-year lag between determining the costs attributable to fuel purchases and
the actual fuel purchases;
and
WHEREAS, The substantial rise in the cost of motor fuel during
the current fiscal is not reflected in the computations of the
Public School Support Plan and adversely affects the funding
available to county school systems to provide for the
transportation of students and otherwise provide for the operation
of the school systems; therefore be it
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That the members hereby recognize the need and express their
urgency for advancing the appropriations of state aid to county
boards experiencing serious financial difficulty
attributable to
the substantial rise in the motor fuel costs
for student
transportation
; and be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk is hereby directed to forward
a copy of this resolution to the Senate, the Governor, and the West
Virginia Board of Education.
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