State property acquisition: West Coyote Hills project site: funding.

Existing law generally authorizes the Director of General Services to acquire title to real property in the name of the state whenever the acquisition of real property is authorized or contemplated by law, if no other state agency is specifically authorized and directed to acquire it. Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy and prescribes the membership, functions, and duties of the conservancy with regard to the protection, preservation, restoration, and enhancement of specified coastal lands. Existing law establishes the Coastal Trust Fund in the State Treasury. This bill would require that the $15,000,000 appropriated in the Budget Act of 2017 for the purposes of SB 714 of the 2017–18 Regular Session be deposited in the West Coyote Hills Conservancy Program Account in the Coastal Trust Fund to be used for the purchase of specified property and related projects. The bill would make findings and declarations regarding funding under the bill for the Wildlife Conservation Board to open up, operate, and maintain the Robert E. Ward Nature Preserve. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act to specify the particular uses of the appropriated funds.