Existing law authorizes specified counties, until July 1, 2010, to develop the Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program, as specified. This bill would extend the authorized operation of the program until July 1, 2013.
(1) Existing law provides for emergency apportionments to school districts subject to specified conditions including, in certain circumstances, the repayment of an emergency loan over a period of no more than 10 years and the appointment by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of an administrator who would exercise the powers and responsibilities of the governing board of the school district. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to provide emergency apportionment assistance to the King City Joint Union High School District, and require the Superintendent to assume all the rights, duties, and powers of the governing board of the King City Joint Union High School District and to appoint, in consultation with the Monterey County Superintendent of Schools, a state administrator to act on behalf of the Superintendent in exercising the Superintendent's authority over the school district. The bill would continue the authority of the Superintendent and the state administrator over the school district until certain enumerated conditions are met, including the completion of assessment and improvement plans for the school district. The bill would require the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) to provide specified assistance relating to the development of a multiyear financial recovery plan, the preparation of budget reports, and the recommendation of activities that could enhance revenue or achieve cost savings. The bill would require the school district to bear 100% of costs associated with implementing the provisions of the bill relating to the administration of the emergency apportionment assistance and the activities of the FCMAT, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment as an emergency loan to the King City Joint Union High School District, and specify procedures for repayment of the loan. In addition, the bill would authorize the district to augment the emergency loan with an additional $8,000,000 of lease financing in order to increase the emergency loan to a total of no more than $13,000,000. The bill would authorize the school district to sell property owned by the district and use the proceeds from the sale to reduce or retire the emergency loan, and would prohibit the district from being eligible for financial hardship assistance under the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998. (2) This bill would make a legislative finding and declaration that the unique circumstances of the King City Joint Union High School District warrant the enactment of a special statute. (3) 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would declare May 2009 to be "Senior Volunteer Month" to honor the contributions of California's senior volunteers.
This measure would recognize the week of April 26, 2009, through May 2, 2009, as Crime Victims' Rights Week.
This measure would designate Friday, May 8, 2009, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
This measure would proclaim March 2009 as Kidney Cancer Awareness Month in California.
Existing law gives to the State Air Resources Board the primary responsibility for the control of emissions from motor vehicles. The state board is required to administer the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program to provide grants to offset the incremental cost of projects that reduce covered emissions from covered sources. The state board is required to establish and update grant criteria and guidelines for covered vehicle projects. This bill would require an off-road project that involves farm equipment to be deemed to have a minimum project life of at least 10 years. The bill would authorize a grant to be awarded for those projects involving farm equipment regardless of the time period between the date the application for funding was submitted and the compliance date required by any local, state, or federal statute, regulation, rule, memorandum of agreement, memorandum of understanding, or other legal restriction or legally binding document that requires the change in equipment, vehicle, or operation involved in the project, provided the project is not funded after the date for compliance.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA generally requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA also provides some exemptions from its requirements for specified projects. Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to dispose of real property that the Legislature has declared surplus. This bill would exempt the sale of surplus state real property made on an "as is" basis from designated provisions of CEQA. The bill would also exempt from those provisions of CEQA the execution of the purchase and sale agreement or the exchange agreement for surplus state real property if the disposition is not made on an "as is" basis and the close of escrow is contingent on a specified requirement or compliance with CEQA. This bill would exempt specified transportation projects from CEQA unless, on or after February 1, 2009, the lead agency changes the scope of those projects from the manner in which those projects are described in the bill. Because a lead agency would have to determine the applicability of the exemption and to take certain specified action upon a determination of exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill also would create an ad hoc critical infrastructure permit review panel, that would be in effect until January 1, 2011, to convene those permitting agencies, as defined, with jurisdiction over specified transportation projects to coordinate actions on permits, to help reduce or eliminate unnecessary conflict, delay, duplication, overlap, or paperwork associated with the issuance of multiple permits, and to assist in ensuring that permitting agencies and the public have the information necessary to deem permit applications complete and to act upon permits at the earliest feasible date. The bill would require a permitting agency for one of those transportation projects to act on a permit within 30 days of the application being deemed complete. If the permitting agency does not act on a permit during that time, the failure to act would be deemed approval of the permit application for the transportation project. The bill would require permitting agencies to act upon a permit for the specified transportation projects in a shorter period of time, if feasible. The bill would authorize its time limits to be extended upon mutual written agreement of the lead agency and a permitting agency. (2) Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants, including standards for off-road and nonvehicle engine categories. This bill would require the state board to amend specified regulations relating to the emission restrictions of off-road diesel vehicles, as specified. (3) Existing law establishes the Orange County Transportation Authority. This bill would authorize the Orange County Transportation Authority to acquire rights-of-way from willing sellers for specified transportation projects. (4) 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
