Department of Parks and Recreation: Orange County Coastkeeper Garden: grant contract: termination.

The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, among other things, makes $100,000,000 in bond funds available to the Department of Parks and Recreation for grants for nature education and research facilities and equipment to nonprofit organizations and public institutions, including natural history museums, aquariums, research facilities, and botanical gardens. Pursuant to that act, the department entered into a grant contract with the Orange County Coastkeeper for the construction and operation of a botanical garden. This bill would require the department to terminate, upon mutual agreement of the department and the Orange County Coastkeeper, the grant contract. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the grant contract between the department and the Orange County Coastkeeper. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.