| | 4.__Estimated salary costs.__The commissioner shall determine | the estimated salary costs for the number of staff positions | required under subsection 3.__In order to calculate this amount, | the commissioner, where appropriate, shall use the salary matrix | pursuant to section 15677 for all staff positions in each | category. |
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| | 5. Salary costs for substitute teachers.__The commissioner | shall calculate the additional salary costs for substitute | teachers for each school administrative unit using the pupil | count arrived at under section 15674, subsection 1, paragraph C, | subparagraph (1).__In order to calculate this amount, the | commissioner shall establish a per-pupil rate for the cost of a | substitute teacher for 1/2 day. |
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| | 6. Total salary and benefit costs for staff.__The total salary | and benefit costs for staff is equal to the sum of: |
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| A.__The estimated salary costs determined pursuant to | subsection 4; |
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| B.__The amount, as determined by the commissioner, that | equals the statewide percentage of estimated salary costs | determined pursuant to subsection 4 that represents the | statewide benefit costs; and |
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| C. The substitute teacher salary costs determined pursuant | to subsection 5. |
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| §15680.__Per-pupil amounts not related to staffing |
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| | 1.__Additional cost components.__The commissioner shall | calculate one set of per-pupil amounts for each of the following | cost categories to be applied to the elementary school level and | middle school level and shall calculate another set of per-pupil | amounts for each of the following cost categories to be applied | to the high school level: |
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| A. System administration.__The per-pupil amount for "system | administration" is the actual system administration | expenditures, as defined in the State's accounting handbook | for local school systems, for the most recent year available | excluding expenditures for leases and the purchase of land | and buildings, less revenues to system administration for | services to other governments and refunds from a statewide | school management association, divided by the average | October and April enrollment counts for that fiscal year and | then inflated to an estimated allocation year level by a 10- | year average increase in the Consumer Price Index or other | comparable index; |
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