Alternative voluntary redevelopment program: application for relief.

Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor agencies, as defined. Existing law exempts from dissolution a redevelopment agency of a community where the city or county that created the agency participates in an alternative voluntary redevelopment program, where, among other things, the city or county makes remittances for deposit in the Special District Allocation Fund, as prescribed. During the 2011–12 fiscal year, a city or county is authorized to appeal the remittance amount, as determined by the Director of Finance, on the basis that specified information used to calculate the remittance amount was in error. This bill would authorize a city or county to file an application for relief in the amount of the remittance, on or before November 1, 2011, on the basis that the amount of the remittance will place a significant and detrimental fiscal requirement on the city or county. The bill would appropriate $1,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Finance for the costs to comply with the bill. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.