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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2087
Author: Ammiano (D)
Amended: 6/18/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 6/11/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the regulations that describe the
conditions under which the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges (BOG CCC) may appoint a special trustee to
manage a CCC district must include specific benchmarks to
indicate the presence of local capacity to resume management of
the CCC district and clear standards that require meaningful
consultation by a special trustee, or his/her designee, with the
CCC district prior to decisionmaking.
ANALYSIS : Existing law confers upon the BOG CCC the ability
to prescribe minimum standards for the formation and operation
of CCC and exercise general supervision over the CCC.
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Further existing law, requires the BOG CCC to establish
standards for fiscal management practices of BOG CCC and
requires BOG to develop procedures and actions for districts
that fail to achieve fiscal ability or to comply with BOG
recommendations, including the appointment of a special trustee
to manage the district. The BOG is required to report to the
Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Governor
regarding any corrective actions taken by the CCC district or
the BOG to ensure fiscal stabilization. As such, various
regulations have been adopted to effectuate the requirements
placed upon the BOG to accomplish these responsibilities.
This bill requires the regulations that describe the conditions
under which the BOG may appoint a special trustee to manage a
CCC district must include specific benchmarks to indicate the
presence of local capacity to resume management of the CCC
district and clear standards that require meaningful
consultation by a special trustee, or his/her designee, with the
CCC district prior to decisionmaking.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/30/14)
California Federation of Teachers
Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges
Los Angeles College Faculty Guild
Peralta Federation of Teachers
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office, this
bill seeks to address the problem of vague language found in the
Education Code that gives the BOG, an appointed body, the
authority to take away decision making power from a college's
Board of Trustees, an elected body. The BOG pointed to a vague
section of the Education Code in order to exercise their right
to appoint a special trustee to City College San Francisco and
"push aside" the elected board of trustees. The language
presently in code does not limit when this appointment can
happen or when the appointed trustee must leave the school and
return authority to the elected board of trustees. The BOG and
the special trustee are unelected individuals and voters cannot
hold either the BOG or the special trustee accountable for their
actions. This bill seeks to remedy this vague power assigned to
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the BOG.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Mansoor, Vacancy
PQ:k 6/30/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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