Community college property: direct costs for use.

Existing law provides that there is a civic center at every community college within the state, and authorizes the governing board of a community college district to grant the use of college facilities or grounds for specified purposes. Existing law limits the amount a community college may charge an entity to use the college facilities or grounds for those purposes to specified costs. Existing law, for use of college facilities or grounds for other purposes, authorizes the governing board of a community college disrict to charge an amount not to exceed its direct costs or not to exceed fair rental value, as those terms are defined, of college facilities and grounds under its control. This bill, until January 1, 2020, would expand the definition of direct costs to include, among other things, the share of costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment proportional to the entity's use of the college facilities or grounds. The bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop, and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to adopt, regulations to be used by a community college district in determining the proportionate share and the specific allowable costs to be included as direct costs for use of its college facilities or grounds. The bill would make other related changes.