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THIRD READING
Bill No: SCR 156
Author: Berryhill (R), et al.
Introduced:6/20/16
Vote: 21
SUBJECT: California Conservation Corps: 40th Anniversary
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This resolution recognizes the contributions of the
California Conservation Corps on the 40th anniversary of its
creation.
ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1)The California Conservation Corps (CCC) was created through
legislation signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on July 7,
1976, and has grown over 40 years from small beginnings to the
oldest and largest state conservation corps program in the
nation.
2)With the elimination of its "sunset clause" in 1983, the CCC
became a permanent state department and then consolidated
various centers, added several dozen nonresidential satellite
facilities, and created the California Conservation Corps
Foundation.
3)Throughout its history, the CCC has established more than two
dozen centers and sites throughout the state, in urban, rural,
and suburban locations, has hired approximately 3,000 people
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each year from all over the state to reflect the diversity of
California, and is now the only state program with year-round
residential centers.
4)As a cost-effective labor force working for more than 250
local, state, and federal agencies, with crews tackling more
than 900 projects annually, the CCC has generated more than
$26,000,000.
5)The CCC has contributed 69 million hours to natural resource
work throughout the state by providing more than 9.6 million
hours of emergency response on nearly every major California
natural disaster since 1976, installing water-saving devices
and water-efficient irrigation systems, removing turf in favor
of drought-tolerant plants, and devoting more than 500,000
hours to fighting wildfires in 2015 alone.
6)In addition to natural resource work, the CCC has focused on
advancing education and fostering a service ethic and has had
more than 4,000 corpsmembers work to complete their high
school diplomas in the last three years with several hundred
young people earning scholarships to advance their education.
Corpsmembers provided more than 74,000 community volunteer
hours in 2015 alone.
This resolution recognizes the contributions of the California
Conservation Corps on the 40th anniversary of its creation, and
all of its former and current corpsmembers, and supports the
continued and steadfast efforts of current corpsmembers in the
protection and restoration of California's environment and
responding to disasters.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/27/16)
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None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/27/16)
None received
Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520
6/29/16 15:56:07
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