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          Date of Hearing:   May 11, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    AB 405 (Solorio) - As Amended:  April 6, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              Higher 
          EducationVote:8-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Board of Governors (BOG) of the 
          California Community Colleges (CCC) to establish a joint-use 
          facilities program, aligned with existing BOG facilities 
          regulations, upon the availability of funding for this purpose.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Cost pressure of at least up to several million dollars in state 
          bond funds to the extent creation of this program leads to a 
          set-aside in a future higher education bond measure for CCC 
          joint-use facilities. For example, the most recently-approved 
          state education bond (Proposition 1D of 2006) earmarked $29 
          million for K-12 joint-use facilities.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  . According to the author, "The three current joint use 
            facilities programs operated by the Office of Public School 
            Construction and the California Department of Education are 
            only available to projects located on kindergarten to grade 12 
            (K-12) school district campuses.  While K-12 school districts 
            have a dedicated funding stream available to them for joint 
            use projects, community college districts do not.  
            Additionally, the types of projects that are most conducive to 
            joint use facilities, such as recreation fields and community 
            auditoriums, receive low priority in the traditional Community 
            College state facilities program. Despite growing public 
            interest, with limited financial resources community college 
            districts often cannot finance or build new college facilities 
            that maximize the efficiency offered by joint use projects.  








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            Joint use projects create real savings for the state and local 
            communities, benefiting community college districts, cities, 
            schools districts, and taxpayers."

           2)Concerns  . CCC districts already operate joint-use facilities 
            with numerous municipal and educational entities.  The most 
            recent survey (2009) by the CCC Chancellor's Office found that 
            CCC districts operate 59 joint-use facilities, including 20 
            partnerships with K-12 school districts. Moveover, while all 
            of the $1.5 billion in Proposition 1D funds allocated for CCC 
            facilities have been committed, CCC districts have received 
            voter-approval for tens of billions of dollars in local 
            general obligation bonds-funds they can choose to allocate for 
            joint-use facilities if such facilities are a district 
            priority. Finally, of the numerous state general obligation 
            bond measures for higher education facilities over the last 25 
            years, none have included any subcategories for particular 
            types of facilities. In general, the Legislature has honored 
            the segment's priority-setting processes used in identifying 
            and submitting individual projects for funding through the 
            budget process. 

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081