Conservancies: reporting requirements.

(1) Existing law authorizes various conservancies to acquire, manage, direct the management of, and conserve public lands in the state. Existing law requires the State Coastal Conservancy, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, to submit a report, at specified times, to the Legislature. This bill would require the California Tahoe Conservancy, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, the San Joaquin River Conservancy, the Baldwin Hills Conservancy, the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy, the San Diego River Conservancy, and the Coachella Valley Mountain Conservancy to submit biennial reports to the Legislature and to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency detailing their funding, land management costs, administrative costs, and a description of, and the amount of money expended for, all projects funded by the conservancy, a project schedule, and progress toward achieving specified purposes, among other things. The bill would also conform the dates for submitting the reports to when the existing reports are required to be submitted by the State Coastal Conservancy, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and the Sierra Nevada Conservancy. (2) Existing law requires the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to transmit to the Governor and the Legislature a 2-part report with specified information, including, among other things, information in the 2nd part of the report regarding the disposition of the funds appropriated to the conservancy in the fiscal year preceding the year in which the report was made. This bill would instead require the 2nd part of the report to include information regarding the disposition of the funds appropriated to the conservancy in the 2 fiscal years preceding the year in which the report was made, among other things, including, but not limited to, information on state and nonstate funding sources.