Local agencies: federal funds: reports.

(1) Existing law generally imposes various reporting duties on entities that receive state and federal funds, including, among others, requiring each state agency, department, and entity to provide its employer identification number to the Treasurer. This bill would require a local agency that receives federal funds that are subject to an expiration date, and recurrently and persistently fails to spend a substantial amount of those funds by the expiration date, as provided, to submit a written report to the local agency's legislative body no later than one year after the funding expiration date with an enumeration of the amount of funds returned, a summary of the reasons the funds were returned, and an analysis of policy or operational changes required to ensure that relevant federal funds are spent timely in the future. The bill would require the local agency's legislative body to include the report on the agenda of a public meeting. The bill would apply these provisions to specified types of grants, and only where the local agency returns at least $10,000,000 from a single federal allocation. (2) The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.