Community colleges: Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt criteria and standards for periodic assessment of the fiscal condition of community college districts. Existing law requires the board of governors to develop, by regulation, appropriate procedures and actions for districts that fail to achieve fiscal stability or that fail to comply with the board of governors' recommendations. Existing law authorizes these procedures and remedies to include the appointment of a special trustee to manage the community college district. This bill would require that the regulations pursuant to which the board may appoint a special trustee to manage a community college district provide specific benchmarks to indicate the presence of local capacity to resume management of the community college district and clear standards that require meaningful consultation by a special trustee, or his or her designee, with the community college district prior to decisionmaking.