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Bill would ease requirements to unlock long-dormant school facilities fund for smaller Idaho districts
Summary
Representative Doug Pickett presented RS32537C1 to change how Idaho’s Public School Facilities Cooperative Fund may be used, removing the requirement for a state-appointed district supervisor on projects under $5 million, preserving an existing payback index, and clarifying priority of payments. The committee introduced the RS by voice vote.
Representative Doug Pickett introduced RS32537C1 to the House Committee on Education, proposing changes to the state’s Public School Facilities Cooperative Fund intended to make the fund more accessible to rural and smaller school districts.
The measure would remove a requirement that the state appoint a district supervisor to oversee projects valued at $5,000,000 or less and would add language to allow districts that approved an insufficient bond to use the cooperative fund as part of a plan to take to voters under the constitutional two-thirds bond requirement.
The proposal targets an old provision from a 2006 measure—cited in the presentation as House Bill 743—from which the cooperative fund has been used only once. “This legislation would remove that requirement for projects up to $5,000,000 in…
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