Education finance: school cafeterias: cafeteria fund: Grossmont Union High School District: Sweetwater Union High School District.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to establish cafeterias in the schools under its jurisdiction, and authorizes the money received for the sale of food or for any services performed by the cafeterias to be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the "cafeteria fund" of the particular school district. Existing law requires the cafeteria fund to be used only for those expenditures authorized by the governing board of the school district as necessary for the operation of school cafeterias, including, but not limited to, expenditures for the lease or purchase of additional cafeteria equipment for the central food processing plant, vending machines and their installation and housing, and computer equipment and related software. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district with an average daily attendance of over 100,000 to allow as an expenditure from the cafeteria fund or account a share of money agreed upon pursuant to a contract, which is generated from the joint sale of items between the cafeteria and an associated student body student store. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to establish an account for each cafeteria established in a school of the school district, or for all cafeterias established in the schools of the school district, in one or more banks, and requires all receipts of the cafeteria, or cafeterias, as the case may be, derived from the sale of food to be deposited in the account and only expended for specified purposes. This bill, notwithstanding the provision referenced above relating to school districts with an average daily attendance of over 100,000, would authorize the Grossmont Union High School District and the Sweetwater Union High School District to allow as an expenditure from their respective cafeteria funds or accounts a portion of any funds that accrue from the joint sale of items involving a school cafeteria and an associated student body student store as determined pursuant to an agreement entered into between the school cafeteria and the associated student body organization of that school. The bill would require this agreement to meet specified requirements. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Grossmont Union High School District and the Sweetwater Union High School District.