Vermont § 4016 - Reimbursement for transportation expenditures

§ 4016. Reimbursement for transportation expenditures

• (a) A school district or supervisory union that incurs allowable transportation expenditures
  shall receive a transportation reimbursement grant each year. The grant shall be equal
  to 50 percent of allowable transportation expenditures; provided, however, that in
  any year the total amount of grants under this subsection shall not exceed the total
  amount of adjusted base year transportation grant expenditures. The total amount of
  base year transportation grant expenditures shall be $10,000,000.00 for fiscal year
  1997, increased each year thereafter by the annual price index for state and local
  government purchases of goods and services. If in any year the total amount of the
  grants under this subsection exceed the adjusted base year transportation grant expenditures,
  the amount of each grant awarded shall be reduced proportionately. Transportation
  grants paid under this section shall be paid from the Education Fund and shall be
  added to education spending payment receipts paid under section 4011 of this title. (b) In this section, “allowable transportation expenditures” means the costs of transporting
  students to and from school for regular classroom services and shall not include expenditures
  for transporting students participating in curricular activities that take place off
  the school grounds or for transporting students participating in cocurricular activities.
  The State Board shall further define allowable transportation expenditures by rule. (c) A district or supervisory union may apply and the Secretary may pay for extraordinary
  transportation expenditures incurred due to geographic or other conditions such as
  the need to transport students out of the school district to attend another school
  because the district does not maintain a public school. The State Board shall define
  extraordinary transportation expenditures by rule. The total amount of base year extraordinary
  transportation grant expenditures shall be $250,000.00 for fiscal year 1997, increased
  each year thereafter by the annual price index for state and local government purchases
  of goods and services. Extraordinary transportation expenditures shall not be paid
  out of the funds appropriated under subsection (b) of this section for other transportation
  expenditures. Grants paid under this section shall be paid from the Education Fund
  and shall be added to education spending payment receipts paid under section 4011 of this title. (Added 2003, No. 107 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 241, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2023, No. 183 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. July 1, 2024.)