HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04052005 - C58 r,
Q
_ t
` CONTRA
TO: BOARD OF SUPER`ISORS
as�
-' COSTA
FROM: John Sweeten,County Administrator
COUNTY
\ i1
DATE: April 5,2005
SUBJECT: AB 486(Leslie)- Support
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION(s):
SUPPORT AB 486 (Leslie) which would include Contra Costa County in the list of public agencies eligible for
specified grants for acquisition, development or major maintenance of recreational lands and facilities and for
recreational programs.
BACKGROUND/REASON(S) FOR RECOMMENDATION(S):
The 2005 Contra Costa County State Legislative Platform includes the following policy statement:
Support efforts to ensure that Contra Costa County receives its fair share of state allocations. . . .
AB 486 (Leslie)would include Contra Costa County as one of the public agencies eligible to receive competitive
grant funds for urban park acquisition, development, special major maintenance or for innovative recreation
programs under the Roberti Z'berg Harris Park and Open Space Program.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: )0 YES SIGN1AI TITRE:
_RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTYADMNIgSTRATOR_RECOMMENDATION OF COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED THER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
. 1 HEREBY��THAT THIS IS A
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN
AYES: NOES: ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ON MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Contact: Sara Hoffman,335-1090 � �—
ATTESTED � :: J
cc: CAO JOHN SWOETEN,CLVkK OF
Community Development THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Nielsen Merksamer(via CAO) AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
DEPUTY
I a) Sponsor: Assemblyman Tim Leslie
1b) Similar Bills Introduced:No
2)Author's Purpose:
Section 5625 of the Public Resources Code establishes the Roberti Z'Berg Harris Park
and Open Space Program. The program is broken down into several components. Once
funds are appropriated to this program Sixty-nine percent of these funds are required to
be distributed on a block grant basis to urbanized cities, counties, and special districts.
Heavily urbanized jurisdiction such as counties and regional park districts with
populations exceeding 1 million or cities and districts with populations exceeding
300,000 are eligible for an additional block grant allocation amounting to an additional
fourteen percent of the total program funds. Seventeen percent, or the remainder of the
available funds, are allocated through competitive programs.
Eighty-eight percent of the competitive funds are awarded to non-urbanized jurisdiction
(local entities not eligible for block grant awards)and twelve percent to urbanized
jurisdiction, cities and districts exclusively. Inasmuch as heavily urbanized jurisdictions
receive an additional block grant increment they are not eligible to compete. Roughly$4
million was available on a competitive basis to eligible urbanized agencies under both
Propositions 12 and 40. However, again, current law does not permit urbanized counties
to compete for these funds. AB 486 would amend current statute to authorize counties to
apply for RZH urbanized competitive funds. Based on this change in the law the
following counties would be eligible to apply:
Butte
Contra Costa
Kern
Marin
Merced
Monterey
Placer
SF
San Joaquin
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz
Sola.no
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Tulare
Ventura
Most, if not all of these entities have active park and recreation programming and
facilities to serve local and state constituencies.
esp
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-2005-o6REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLY BILL No. 486
Introduced by Assembly Member Leslie
February 16,2005
An act to amend Section 5630 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to parks.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 486,as introduced,Leslie. Urban open space and recreation.
Under the Roberti-Z'Berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation
Program, certain moneys are available for grant purposes in any one
fiscal year only for need basis grants to cities, counties, and districts
on a project-by-project basis and on the basis of need for the
acquisition or development of, or for special major maintenance of,
recreational lands and facilities,or for innovative recreation programs.
Existing law provides that 12% of those moneys shall be available for
grants to cities and recreation and park districts in urbanized areas on
a project-by-project basis and on the basis of need for the acquisition
or development of,or special major maintenance of,recreational lands
and facilities, or for innovative recreation programs.
This bill would provide that the specified 12% of the moneys shall
also be available to counties for those projects.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
I SECTION 1. Section 5630 of the Public Resources Code is
2 amended to read:
99
AB 486 2
1 5630. Seventeen percent of the moneys available for grant
2 purposes in any one fiscal year shall be available only for need
3 basis grants to cities, counties, and districts on a
4 project-by-project basis and on the basis of need for the
5 acquisition or development of, or for special major maintenance
6 of, recreational lands and facilities, or for innovative recreation
7 programs, on the following basis:
8 (a) Eighty-eight percent of the moneys shall be available for
9 grants to cities,counties, and districts in nonurbanized areas on a
10 project-by-project basis and on the basis of need for the
11 acquisition or development of, or for special major maintenance
12 of, recreational lands and facilities, or for innovative recreation
13 programs.The criteria for determining need shall include,but are
14 not limited to,deficiencies in existing park and recreational lands
15 and facilities, the impact of participants from outside the
16 jurisdiction,and the overall merit of the grant proposal.
17 (b) Twelve percent of the moneys shall be available for grants
18 to cities, counties, and recreation and park districts in urbanized
19 areas on a project-by-project basis and on the basis of need for
24 the acquisition or development of, or special major maintenance
21 of, recreational lands and facilities, or for innovative recreation
22 programs. The criteria for determining need shall include,but are
23 not limited to, population density and the inability to complete
24 park and recreation projects due to low total assessed valuation in
25 the jurisdiction.Jurisdictions eligible for funds under subdivision
26 (a) of Section 5629 shall not be eligible for funds under this
27 section.
a