BILL NUMBER: SB 211	AMENDED
	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.