California Conservation Corps: corpsmembers: contracts: facility leases: outreach.

Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency and requires the corps to implement and administer the conservation corps program. Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps, in implementing the California Conservation Corps program, to perform certain tasks, including recruiting and enrolling corpsmember and special corpsmembers. This bill would also authorize the director to enter into any contracts that the director determines is consistent with the corps' mission and necessary for the maintenance, service, and improvement of real property used by the corps as a long-term base of program operations, and to lease facilities, as provided. The bill would require a corpsmember to receive hiring priority at a state agency if the corpsmembers meets specified criteria, including that the corpsmember meets the minimum qualification standards in the vacancy announcement for the state agency position. The bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature that the corps conduct outreach to underrepresented groups for corps membership, as provided.