2007-08 Fourth Quarter Lottery Apportionment
The State Controller’s Office (SCO) announced the 2007-08 fourth quarter Lottery apportionment on September 30, 2008. The apportionment for all school districts, educational entities, and state agencies totaled $234 million. The amount apportioned to community college districts amounted to $16,682,349 for the unrestricted, nonProposition 20 base, and $17,671,360 for the restricted, Proposition 20 portion. Proposition 20, passed by voters in March 2000, requires that a specified percentage of any increase in Lottery funds over fiscal 1997-98 levels be used to purchase instructional materials.
The amount apportioned differs somewhat from the amount paid to community colleges, because the Controller has the ability to go back two years and make adjustments. Thus, while the unrestricted amount apportioned was the amount paid, the Proposition 20 total paid community colleges was about $34,000 less than the Proposition 20 total apportioned to California Community Colleges (CCC).
For fiscal 2007-08, payments from the Lottery Education Fund to school districts, educational entities, and state agencies totaled $1.1 billion, with total apportionments to CCC of $142,359,603 for the unrestricted Lottery apportionment and $21,801,462 for the Proposition 20 apportionment. The 2007-08 fiscal year Lottery revenue was less than had been projected by the Lottery Commission. As the California Budget Project noted in a March 2007 article, Lottery funding has represented a small and declining share of public school funding.
For budgeting purposes, we recommend that community college districts use our most recent projections from the 2008 SSC Community College Financial Projection Dartboard, updated September 19, 2008.
|
Projections |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
|
Non-Proposition 20 (Base) |
$118.00 |
$118.00 |
$118.00 |
$118.25 |
$118.50 |
|
Proposition 20 |
$19.00 |
$19.00 |
$19.25 |
$19.50 |
$19.60 |
As we move through 2008-09, we will watch the fiscal picture closely, particularly as the ballot proposal to reform the state Lottery moves forward. If the proposal is successful, the funding going forward for school agencies, including community colleges, will be benchmarked at the 2008-09 fiscal year, increased annually by a cost-of-living adjustment and growth. Stay tuned!
—Deborah Harmon