Sec. 14.09.010. - Transportation of pupils.

(a) A school district that provides student transportation services is eligible to receive funding for operating the student transportation system. Subject to appropriation, the amount of funding provided by the state under this section is the amount of the school district's ADM, less the ADM for the district's correspondence programs during the current fiscal year, multiplied by the per student amount for the school district as follows:

DISTRICT PER STUDENT AMOUNT

Alaska Gateway $1,566

Aleutians East 265

Anchorage 384

Annette Island 61

Bering Strait 45

Bristol Bay 2,187

Chatham 73

Copper River 1,387

Cordova 278

Craig 266

Deltareely 1,413

Denali 1,708

Dillingham 1,020

Fairbanks 665

Galena 241

Haines 592

Hoonah 281

Iditarod 178

Juneau 525

Kake 193

Kashunamiut 5

Kenai Peninsula 638

Ketchikan 686

Klawock 210

Kodiak Island 560

Kuspuk 618

Lake and Peninsula 359

Lower Kuskokwim 198

Lower Yukon 1

Matanuska-Susitna 726

Nenana 530

Nome 368

North Slope 896

Northwest Arctic 21

Pelican 68

Petersburg 261

Saint Mary's 71

Sitka 404

Skagway 34

Southeast Island 1,040

Southwest Region 565

Tanana 451

Unalaska 612

Valdez 629

Wrangell 563

Yakutat 683

Yukon Flats 237

Yukon/Koyukuk 282

Yupiit 2.

(b) In this section,

(1) "ADM" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990 ;

(2) "district's ADM" means the sum of the ADMs in the district.

(c) Beginning July 1, 2009, funding provided to a school district under (a) of this section shall be adjusted annually on October 1 according to changes in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for the Anchorage metropolitan area compiled by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The index for 1982 to 1984 is the reference base index for an adjustment made under this subsection.