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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 204
Author: O'Donnell (D)
Amended: 6/16/15 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE GOVERNANCE & FIN. COMMITTEE: 6-0, 6/10/15
AYES: Nguyen, Beall, Hernandez, Lara, Moorlach, Pavley
NO VOTE RECORDED: Hertzberg
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/4/15 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT: Redevelopment: County of Los Angeles
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill prohibits oversight boards in Los Angeles
County from being consolidated into a single countywide
oversight board unless a successor agency adopts a resolution
dissolving the board.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Establishes successor agencies to manage the process of
unwinding former redevelopment agencies' (RDAs') affairs.
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2)Directs that each successor agency has an oversight board that
is responsible for supervising it and approving its actions.
3)Allows the Department of Finance (DOF) to review and request
reconsideration of an oversight board's decisions.
4)Requires that, until July 1, 2016, each successor agency's
seven-member oversight board must be comprised of seven
members appointed by specified appointing authorities.
5)Requires, on July 1, 2016, in each county in which there is
more than one oversight board, those oversight boards to be
consolidated into a single seven-member oversight board
comprised of members appointed by specified appointing
authorities.
This bill:
1)Requires that an oversight board within Los Angeles County
must continue to independently operate until its successor
agency adopts a resolution dissolving its oversight board and
the oversight board approves that resolution.
2)Specifies that a successor agency's oversight board ceases to
exist after a successor agency resolution to dissolve its
oversight board is adopted and approved.
3)Specifies that, after a successor agency's oversight board is
dissolved, the successor agency will be overseen by the
oversight board established pursuant to the statute creating a
single countywide oversight board on July 1, 2016.
4)Makes additional technical and conforming changes to the
statutes governing successor agencies' oversight boards.
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Background
Local officials in Los Angeles County worry that consolidating
the county's 71 oversight boards into a single countywide
oversight board will place overwhelming administrative burdens
on that oversight board. They want the Legislature to prevent
all oversight boards in Los Angeles County from being
consolidated into a single board next year.
Comments
Purpose of the bill. Stakeholders in the redevelopment
dissolution process in Los Angeles County worry about the
massive volume of work that would be handled by a single
countywide oversight board after state law consolidates the
county's 71 oversight boards next year. Officials note that the
countywide oversight board will not have the same level of
detailed, institutional knowledge about any particular successor
agency's operations that individual oversight boards currently
possess. This may make it difficult for the countywide board to
act expeditiously in approving some successor agencies' actions.
Administrative gridlock and slow response times will make it
difficult to complete the complex property disposition
functions, financial transactions, and tax distributions that
are needed to smoothly unwind former RDAs' affairs in Los
Angeles County. By preventing all 71 successor agencies from
simultaneously becoming answerable to a single oversight board,
this bill avoids placing a potentially counterproductive burden
on the redevelopment wind-down process in Los Angeles County.
Trailer bill alternative? After Governor Brown revised his
proposed State Budget last month, DOF released draft language of
a budget trailer bill which includes an alternative approach to
restructuring Los Angeles County's oversight boards. Under the
proposal released by DOF, on July 1, 2016, the 71 oversight
boards in Los Angeles County would be consolidated into five
oversight boards that would be responsible for successor
agencies within each of Los Angeles' five county supervisor
districts.
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FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/16/15)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
AFL-CIO
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
District Council 36
City of Alhambra
City of Bell Gardens
City of Cerritos
City of Downey
City of Lakewood
City of Long Beach
City of Montebello
City of Paramount
City of Santa Monica
City of Signal Hill
City of Torrance
City of Whittier
County of Los Angeles
Downtown Long Beach Associates
Los Angeles County Division, League of California Cities
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/16/15)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/4/15
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Chang, Chau,
Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Daly, Dodd,
Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia,
Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray,
Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low,
Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
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Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea,
Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Campos, Dahle
Prepared by:Brian Weinberger / GOV. & F. / (916) 651-4119
6/17/15 14:23:59
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