BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 446 (Ridley-Thomas) - Baldwin Hills Conservancy.
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|Version: February 23, 2015 |Policy Vote: N.R. & W. 9 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: August 17, 2015 |Consultant: Marie Liu |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: AB 446 would delete the sunset date on the Baldwin
Hills Conservancy (conservancy).
Fiscal
Impact: Annual costs of at least $350,000 beginning in 2018
from the Environmental License Plate Fund (special) for
conservancy's administrative costs.
Background: In 2000, the Baldwin Hills Conservancy Act (act) established
the conservancy within the Natural Resources Agency (agency).
The act provides that the conservancy, among other things, may
acquire and manage public lands within the Baldwin Hills area
and provide recreational, open space, wildlife habitation
restoration and protection, and lands for educational uses
within the area.
The conservancy's territory is located in the heavily urbanized
Baldwin Hills area of the Los Angeles Basin. The territory
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includes parts of the Cities of Los Angeles and Culver City,
unincorporated portions of Los Angeles County, the Kenneth Hahn
State Recreation Area and some adjacent lands.
The act, and therefore the conservancy, is set to sunset on
January 1, 2018.
Proposition 1, which was approved by the voters in November
2014, authorized $10 million to the conservancy for projects
that have multiple benefits for water quality, water supply, and
water protection and restoration of watersheds.
Proposed Law:
This bill would delete the sunset date on the conservancy
thereby instating the conservancy as a permanent body.
Staff
Comments: The conservancy has had annual operating costs of
approximately $385,000. These costs are currently being paid for
by the Environmental License Plate Fund, which has a structural
deficiency, though the conservancy can receive funding from
other special funds or the General Fund. By eliminating the
sunset date of the conservancy, this bill will extend the
conservancy's operating costs beyond 2018.
Staff notes that the annual cost of $385,000 is for the base
administration of the SRDC. To administer the $10 million made
available by Proposition 1, the conservancy will incur
additional administrative costs, which will be covered by bond
monies. Staff assumes that expending Proposition 1 monies will
take up to 10 years.
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