Parks: property transfer.

Existing law provides for the acquisition of public park property and facilities and compensation for that transfer under specified circumstances. The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) authorizes, for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, improvement, rehabilitation, restoration, enhancement, and protection of park, recreational, cultural, historical, fish and wildlife, lake, riparian, reservoir, river, and coastal resources, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $2,100,000,000. The act prohibits the use of the grant funds unless the applicant has agreed to certain conditions, including but not limited to, using the property only for the purposes for which the grant was made and to make no other use or sale or other disposition of the property, except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. The act requires that if the use of the property is changed to a use that is not permitted by the act or if the property is sold or otherwise disposed of, an amount equal to the amount of the grant, the fair market value of the real property, as specified, or the proceeds from the sale or other disposition be used by the grantee for a purpose authorized by the act or that this amount be reimbursed to the fund. This bill would authorize the City of Los Angeles to transfer to the Los Angeles Unified School District parkland known as the Vernon Branch Library Pocket Park and the facilities on that land, conditioned upon, among other things, the city complying with the requirements of the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act and providing a copy of the recorded deed and title policy for, and map of, a substitute parkland. The bill would also prohibit the transfer until the Department of Parks and Recreation determines that all required conditions have been met.