In their continued efforts to actively reduce or eliminate their financial obligations to school districts related to mandate reimbursement claims, the Commission on State Mandates (COSM) has re-evaluated their nearly eight-year-old decision on SARC reimbursement. Axiom anticipates on January 26, 2006, the COSM will eliminate SARC as a mandate-reimbursable program. Therefore, school districts will no longer be able to recoup their costs related to the preparation and distribution of their SARCs. In addition, this will eliminate Axiom’s ability to offer a reimbursable product.
The argument that COSM has used to arrive at their decision goes back to the origination of the SARC from Proposition 98. The COSM now believes that when California’s voters passed Proposition 98 in 1988, they required a simple, “but not limited to” 13-component SARC. The state’s new argument is the voter’ ...