California Senate Bill SB211 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 211AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 26, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Senator Simitian  (   Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member   Monning   )   (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member   Monning   )  FEBRUARY 23, 2009 An act  to amend Section 5514   of, and  to add Section 5506.14 to  ,  the Public Resources Code, relating to parks and recreation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 211, as amended, Simitian.  Regional district:   Park district formation:  County of Santa Cruz. Existing law generally authorizes the formation of a district by a petition requesting the creation and maintenance of a district, describing the exterior boundaries, signed by at least 5,000 electors residing within the territory proposed to be included in the district, and presented to the board of supervisors of the county containing the largest area within the proposed district. Existing law also  permits   authorizes  proceedings for the formation of a regional park district, regional park and open-space district, or regional open-space district in specified counties of the state to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors adopted after a noticed hearing, and specifies the contents of the resolution, in lieu of the petition and related proceedings required under the above provisions. This bill, in addition, would  permit   authorize  the formation of a  regional  district in the County of Santa Cruz  to be   , except as specified,   if the exterior boundaries of the proposed district are coterminous with the exterior boundaries of the county and are  initiated by a  s   pecified  resolution of the county board of supervisors, after a hearing noticed in accordance with specified procedures, in lieu of the petition and related proceedings required under the above provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 5506.14 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read: 5506.14.  A proceeding for the formation of a regional   (a)    If the exterior boundaries of a proposed district are coterminous with the exterior boundaries of the County of Santa Cruz, except for territory within the boundaries of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District on the effective date of this act, proceedings for formation of a  district in the County of Santa Cruz may be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors, adopted after a hearing noticed in accordance with Section 6064 of the Government Code, in lieu of the petition and related proceedings specified in this article.  (b) The resolution shall do all of the following:   (1) Name the proposed district and state the reasons for forming it.   (2) Describe the methods by which the district will be financed.   (3) Specify that the proposed district shall be governed by a board of five directors who shall be elected in accordance with this article and, notwithstanding Section 5515, specify that the boundaries of the five wards or subdistricts shall be drawn according to the boundaries of supervisorial districts.   (4) Call and give notice of an election to be held in the proposed district pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 5514. Formation of the district is not subject to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with Section 56000) of Title 5 of the Government Code).   (5) Include any other matters necessary to the formation of the district.   SEC. 2.   Section 5514 of the   Public Resources Code   is amended to read:  5514. (a) The board of supervisors of the county having the largest area within the proposed district shall, if the petition, after the hearing, has been approved, in whole or in part, have jurisdiction to proceed further with the calling of an election within the boundaries of the proposed district as described in the resolution passed at the conclusion of the hearing, and shall, either as a part of the same resolution or by a later resolution, call an election within the proposed district for the purpose of determining whether the district shall be created and established and, if necessary, for the purpose of electing the first board of directors therefor in case the district is created. (b) In a district proposed to be formed pursuant to Section 5506.5, 5506.11,  or  5506.12,  o   r 5506.14,  the resolution calling the election may provide for a single ballot measure or separate ballot measures on the question of formation, establishment of an appropriations limit authorized by Section 4 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, the authority to tax pursuant to Section 5566, and the authority to sell bonds pursuant to Section 5568, or any combination of those questions.