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Controller Sends Schools $1 Billion in Lottery Funds for the Year

PR09:028
10/1/2009
Contact: Jacob Roper
916-445-2636
 

SACRAMENTO - State Controller John Chiang today announced that payments from the Lottery Education Fund to school districts, educational institutions and State agencies for the 2008-09 fiscal year totaled $1.04 billion.

Payments to K-12 schools and community colleges are made to county treasurers, who then distribute the money to school districts. Funds for the University of California and Hastings College of the Law are sent directly to those institutions. The funds for State departments are deposited directly into their accounts.

The Controller’s Office makes quarterly payments based on Lottery income and unclaimed on-line prizes. Proposition 20, which voters passed in March 2000, requires that a certain percentage of any increase in lottery funds over the base 1997-98 fiscal year be used to purchase instructional materials.

For the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, the Controller apportioned $259.0 million from the Lottery Education Fund.

The breakdown of funds to the various educational entities is as follows:

 

Non Prop-20 Prop 20
K-12 $726,758,831 $91,018,486
Community Colleges 138,205,077 17,380,987
California State University 41,771,601
University of California 24,946,710
Hastings College of the Law 137,006
Dept. of Youth Authority 123,188
Dept. of Education – State Special Schools 101,441
Dept. of Developmental Services 142,592
Dept. of Mental Health 0
Total $932,186,446 $108,399,473

Individual School District and Institution Quarterly payments are available at on the State Controller’s website, sco.ca.gov. Total fiscal year payments by county are listed below.

County Amount Paid
ALAMEDA $35,424,145.59
ALPINE $21,315.91
AMADOR $568,913.46
BUTTE $5,399,191.76
CALAVERAS $851,518.87
COLUSA $550,505.50
CONTRA COSTA $26,543,498.05
DEL NORTE $545,981.72
EL DORADO $3,991,227.25
FRESNO $29,465,393.55
GLENN $784,507.89
HUMBOLDT $3,165,486.46
IMPERIAL $5,543,387.07
INYO $381,487.06
KERN $25,122,972.73
KINGS $3,679,483.81
LAKE $1,200,827.32
LASSEN $752,746.57
LOS ANGELES $262,561,751.00
MADERA $3,808,580.59
MARIN $4,417,110.08
MARIPOSA $269,095.65
MENDOCINO $2,131,324.95
MERCED $8,588,894.63
MODOC $267,697.80
MONO $227,063.08
MONTEREY $11,301,038.56
NAPA $3,467,505.08
NEVADA $1,863,132.50
ORANGE $82,380,265.87
PLACER $10,573,558.20
PLUMAS $537,820.14
RIVERSIDE $60,010,428.21
SACRAMENTO $37,857,982.71
SAN BENITO $1,372,422.15
SAN BERNARDINO $58,374,705.24
SAN DIEGO $77,499,734.27
SAN FRANCISCO $11,713,780.68
SAN JOAQUIN $19,602,794.43
SAN LUIS OBISPO $5,608,117.16
SAN MATEO $13,659,463.28
SANTA BARBARA $11,726,745.36
SANTA CLARA $43,988,280.04
SANTA CRUZ $6,560,169.46
SHASTA $4,492,803.88
SIERRA $58,842.69
SISKIYOU $1,048,834.47
SOLANO $9,726,123.73
SONOMA $11,606,970.33
STANISLAUS $15,400,020.94
SUTTER $2,589,509.09
TEHAMA $1,400,201.55
TRINITY $222,257.72
TULARE $13,353,752.20
TUOLUMNE $822,148.01
VENTURA $21,768,328.57
YOLO $3,757,757.31
YUBA $2,753,780.08

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