School facilities: task order procurement contracting: Los Angeles Unified School District.

Existing law establishes a pilot project authorizing the governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District to award multiple annual task order procurement contracts, as prescribed, for purposes that include services, repairs, and construction funded by the school district's general fund. Existing law, among other requirements, requires the school district, by January 15, 2023, to submit to committees of the Legislature a specified report on the use of the task order procurement method, including an assessment of project performance, as specified, and to pay for the report. Under existing law, the report requirement becomes inoperative on January 1, 2024, and all of the task order procurement contracting provisions are repealed as of that same date. This bill would additionally authorize those task order procurement contracts to include services, repairs, and construction that are funded by local school construction bonds or federal or state funds. The bill would exclude specified services and limit the scope of a contract under the pilot project to the purposes authorized by its funding source. The bill would delete the obsolete reference to the January 15, 2023, report deadline and would require the school district to submit the above-described report by January 15, 2029, and January 15, 2033. The bill would require those reports to assess performance on a per project basis and would authorize the report to include an assessment of performance on a per contractor basis. The bill would extend the January 1, 2024, repeal date of the above-described report requirement and the remaining provisions to January 1, 2034. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles Unified School District. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.