Public parks: City of Escalon: property sale.

(1) Existing law, the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) and the California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002, among other things, authorized the issuance of grants to local governments from the sale of bonds for the acquisition, development, restoration, and enhancement of local parks, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, in specified amounts. Existing law requires, among other things, that a grant applicant agree to use a property only for the purposes for which the grant was made and make no other use or sale or other disposition of the property, except as authorized by specific act of the Legislature. This bill would authorize the City of Escalon to sell, at fair market value, a specified property known as the Robert Cabral Regional Park property, which was acquired by the city with state bond funds but unable to be developed for local park purposes, so that the city may use the proceeds from that sale for the development of another park within the city limits. (2) This bill would declare that, due to the unique circumstances pertaining to the City of Escalon that the bill is intended to remedy, a general statute within the meaning of specified provisions of the California Constitution cannot be made applicable and a special statute is necessary.