1. Memorandum Number 03-18
    2. M E M O R A N D U M
    3. 1. Tuition and Out-of-State Fees for Credit Programs
    4.  
    5. 3. Financial Aid
    6. 4. Technology Fee
    7. 5. Differential Out-of-State Fee
    8. 6. Service Charge
    9. 7. Other Fees
    10. 8. Fee Waivers
    11. 9. Restricted Funds
    12. 10. Sum-of-the-Digits

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
F. PHILIP HANDY,
Chairman
T. WILLARD FAIR,
Vice Chairman
Members
SALLY B RADSHAW
LINDA J. EADS, ED.D.
CHARLES PATRICK G ARCÍA
JULIA L. J OHNSON
WILLIAM L. PROCTOR, PH.D.
Memorandum Number 03-18
May 30, 2003
M E M O R A N D U M
TO:
Community College Presidents
FROM:
J. David Armstrong, Jr.
SUBJECT:
2003-2004 Student Fees and Appropriations
JIM HORNE
Commissioner of Education
The attached information is being provided in order to assist your staff in the completion of the
2003-2004 college operating budgets.
We will provide additional information to you as soon as
it is made available to us.
If you have any questions about these issues, please contact Maybelle Montford (student fees and
appropriations) SUNCOM 205-9372 or Ron Fahs (Public Education Capital Outlay) SUNCOM
205-9490.
JDA/mml
Attachments
c:
Community College Business Officers
J. DAVID ARMSTRONG, JR.
Chancellor, Community Colleges
325 W. GAINES STREET • SUITE 1314 • TALLAHASSEE, FL 32399-0400 • (850) 245-0407 • www.dcc.firn.edu

ATTACHMENT I
1.
Tuition and Out-of-State Fees for Credit Programs
The 2003-04 General Appropriations Act (Senate Bill 2A) establishes the standard fees which
include technology as follows:
Program
Resident
Non-Resident
Advanced & Professional
$ 43.28
$129.90
Postsecondary Vocational
$ 43.28
$129.90
College Preparatory
$ 43.28
$129.90
Please be advised that the Florida Prepaid College Program does not cover the technology
fee.
If you choose to not charge the technology fee, your board of trustees has the authority to
designate revenues in Fund 1, Unrestricted Current Fund, for technology.
Discretionary fees would be calculated by adding the tuition plus the technology fee and
multiplying by the percentage allowed for the fee.
Colleges electing to increase tuition for security purposes will be required to provide written
justification to the Division of Community Colleges based on criteria approved by the local
board of trustees, including but not limited to criteria such as local crime data and information,
and strategies for the implementation of local safety plans.
If you
do not assess
a separate technology fee, the minimum and maximum tuition and out-of-
state fees would be as follows:
Max
Max
With
Tech
Classification
Standard
Minimum
W/O Security
Security
Fee
Tuition
$ 43.28
$ 38.95
$ 47.61
$ 49.77
$0.00
Out-of-State
$129.90
$116.91
$142.89
$149.39
$0.00
The minimum and maximum tuition and out-of-state fees would be as follows if you
assess
a
separate technology fee.
Out-of-State technology fees may not exceed a total of $5.40 per credit
hour.
Max
Max
With
Tech
Classification
Standard
Minimum
W/O Security
Security
Fee
Tuition
$ 41.48
$ 38.95
$ 45.81
$ 47.97
$1.80
Out-of-State
$126.30
$116.91
$139.32
$145.79
$3.60

2.
Tuition and Out-of-State Fees for Vocational PSAV and Adult Education
Program
Vocational Credit (PSAV
)
Tuition
Out-of-State
Adult Education
Tuition
Out-of-State
Standard
Minimum
Maximum
$ 44.40
$ 41.40
$ 44.40
$132.90
$123.60
$132.90
$ 21.90
$ 20.40
$ 21.90
$ 66.00
$ 61.50
$ 66.00
There is flexibility in the fee rates for PSAV or Adult Education programs.
Colleges are
authorized to increase fees up to 7.5% over the Fall 2002 rates.
Colleges are not required to
increase fees and may even levy a fee that ranges between an increase of zero percent and an
increase of 7.5%.
Continuing Workforce Education
-
Fees for continuing workforce education are prescribed in
Section 1009.22(3)(b), Florida Statutes, which reads as follows: “Fees for continuing workforce
education shall be locally determined by the district school board or community college board.
However, at least 50 percent of the expenditures for the continuing workforce education program
provided by the community college or school district must be derived from fees.”
3.
Financial Aid
The Appropriations Bill (SB 2A) made no changes in the financial aid fee language in Section
1009.23(8)(c), which continued the requirement that a greater percentage of these funds be used
for need-based aid:
Up to 25 percent or $300,000, whichever is greater, of the financial aid fees
collected may be used to assist students who demonstrate academic merit; who
participate in athletics, public service, cultural arts, and other extracurricular
programs as determined by the institution; or who are identified as members of a
targeted gender or ethnic minority population.
The financial aid fee revenues
allocated for athletic scholarships and fee exemptions provided pursuant to
s. 1009.25(3) for athletes shall be distributed equitably as required by
s. 1000.05(3)(d). A minimum of 75 percent of the balance of these funds for new
awards shall be used to provide financial aid based on absolute need, and the
remainder of the funds shall be used for academic merit purposes and other
purposes approved by the district boards of trustees.
4.
Technology Fee
Section 1009.23(10), Florida Statutes, authorizes each community college district board of
trustees to establish a separate fee for technology which may not exceed $1.80 per credit hour for
resident students and not more than $5.40 per credit hour for non-resident students.
These

revenues must be expended according to technology improvement plans.
The technology fee
applies only to college credit and college preparatory instruction.
Fifty percent of the revenues from the technology fee may be pledged by a community college
board of trustees as a dedicated revenue source for the repayment of lease-purchase agreements
not to exceed the useful life of the asset being financed.
These revenues and related expenditures
should be recorded in the Unexpended Plant Fund.
5.
Differential Out-of-State Fee
Section 1009.23(6), Florida Statutes, provides that each community college board of trustees
which has a service area that borders another state may implement a plan for a differential out-
of-state fee.
6.
Service Charge
Section 1009.23(15), Florida Statutes, allows each community college to assess a service charge
for the payment of tuition and fees in installments.
The community college board of trustees
must approve the service charge.
As a reminder, Section 1009.27, Florida Statutes, Deferral of
Fees, states:
Each school district, community college and state university is responsible for
collecting all deferred fees.
If a school district, community college, or state
university has not collected a deferred fee,
the
student may not earn state
funding for any course for which the student subsequently registers until the
fee has been paid
.
7.
Other Fees
Section 1009.23(12), Florida Statutes, reads as follows:
In addition to tuition, out-of-state, financial aid, capital improvement, student
activity and service, and technology fees authorized in this section, each board of
trustees is authorized to establish fee schedules for the following user fees and
fines: laboratory fees; parking fees and fines; library fees and fines; fees and fines
relating to facilities and equipment use or damage; access or identification card
fees; duplicating, photocopying, binding, or microfilming fees; standardized
testing fees; diploma replacement fees; transcript fees; application fees;
graduation fees; and late fees related to registration and payment.
Such user fees
and fines shall not exceed the cost of the services provided and shall only be
charged to persons receiving the service.
A community college may not charge
any fee except as authorized by law or rules of the State Board of Education.
Community colleges are not authorized to charge any fee that is not specifically
authorized by statute.

8.
Fee Waivers
Specific Appropriation Item 101 of Senate Bill 2A (General Appropriations Act) and 1009.26(1),
Florida Statutes, establishes vocational fee waivers for up to 8% of the fee revenues that would
otherwise be collected.
9.
Restricted Funds
Specific Appropriation Items 6 and 101A of Senate Bill 2A provide funding for upper division
baccalaureate programs for St. Petersburg College, Chipola Junior College, Edison Community
College and Miami-Dade Community College.
These appropriations are restricted funds and
must be accounted for in Current Funds Restricted (Fund 2).
10.
Sum-of-the-Digits
The allocation of Public Education Capital Outlay funding for Maintenance, Repair, Renovation
and Remodeling from Senate Bill 2A, Specific Appropriation Item 12A, is displayed by college
on Attachment II.

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