Park property: City of El Monte: Pioneer Park.

The Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program Act provides grants to cities, counties, and certain districts for recreational purposes, open-space purposes, or both, on the basis of population and need. The act requires the property acquired or developed with the grant money to be used by the grant recipient only for the purpose for which the grant moneys were requested and prohibits any other use of the area except by a specific act of the Legislature. The Community Parklands Act of 1986 authorizes the issuance of bonds for the purpose of financing a grant program to counties, cities, and park districts on the basis of their populations, as provided, for neighborhood, community, and regional parks, among other things. The act requires the applicant to agree that the property acquired or developed with these funds be used only for the purposes for which the funds were requested and that no other use of the property be used unless permitted by a specific act of the Legislature. The California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act, an initiative bond measure approved by the voters at the June 7, 1988, statewide primary election, provides bond funds for wildlife, coastal, and parkland conservation, and for the acquisition of park property, as specified. The act prohibits state funds from being disbursed unless the applicant agrees to use the property for the purposes of the act and prohibits the use, sale, or other disposition of the property except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. This bill would authorize the City of El Monte to dispose of all or a portion of Pioneer Park property acquired or developed with grant moneys from the above acts, subject to the acquisition of property of equal or greater value, as approved by the Department of Parks and Recreation, and at no cost to the state, as provided. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.