Title EDC — California Educ. Code

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 1988.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The public library is a supplement to the formal system of free public education, a source of information and inspiration to persons of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and economic statuses, and a resource for continuin…

As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Committee” means the California Library Construction and Renovation Finance Committee created pursuant to Section 19972. (b) “Fund” means the California Library Construction and Restoration Fund create…

The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the California Library Construction and Renovation Fund, which is hereby created. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the fund shall be continuously appropriated without regard …

All moneys deposited in the fund shall be available for grants to any city, county, city and county, or district that is empowered at the time of the project application to own and maintain a facility for the acquisition, construction, remodeling, or rehabilitation of facilities …

The grant funds authorized pursuant to Section 19956 and the matching funds provided pursuant to Section 19962 shall be used by the recipient for any of the following purposes: (a) Acquisition or construction of new facilities or additions to existing facilities. (b) Acquisition …

(a) An applicant for a grant for the acquisition, construction, remodeling, or rehabilitation of public library facilities under this chapter, as opposed to an application for a grant to acquire land pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 19957, shall be eligible to apply for tha…

No grant funds authorized pursuant to Section 19956 or matching funds provided pursuant to Section 19962 shall be used by a recipient for any of the following purposes: (a) Books and other library materials. (b) Administration costs of the project, including, but not limited to, …

All construction contracts for projects funded in part through grants awarded pursuant to this chapter shall be awarded through competitive bidding pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100) of the Public Contract Code.

This chapter shall be administered by the State Librarian, who shall adopt rules, regulations, and policies for the implementation of this chapter.

A city, county, city and county, or district may apply to the State Librarian for a grant pursuant to this chapter, as follows: (a) Each application shall be for a project for a purpose authorized by Section 19957. (b) The applicant shall request not less than thirty-five thousan…

(a) Each grant recipient shall provide matching funds from any available source in an amount equal to 35 percent of the costs of the project. The remaining 65 percent of the costs of the project shall be provided through allocations from the fund. (b) Qualifying matching funds sh…

An amount not to exceed 1 percent of the cost of construction of the project may be used for appropriate works of art to enhance the facility.

(a) The estimated costs of a project for which an application is submitted shall be consistent with normal public construction costs in the applicant’s area. (b) An applicant wishing to construct a project with costs which exceed normal public construction costs in the applicant’…

Once an application has been approved by the board and included in the State Librarian’s request to the committee, the amount of funding to be provided to the applicant shall not be increased. Any actual changes in project costs shall be the full responsibility of the applicant. …

In reviewing applications, the board shall consider all of the following factors: (a) Needs of urban and rural areas. (b) Projected population growth. (c) Changing concepts of public library service. (d) Distance of the proposed project from other existing and proposed facilities…

(a) A facility, or the part thereof, acquired, constructed, remodeled, or rehabilitated with grants received pursuant to this chapter shall be dedicated to public library direct service use for a period of not less than 20 years following completion of the project, or the useful …

Bonds in the total amount of seventy-two million four hundred five thousand dollars ($72,405,000) (exclusive of refunding bonds), or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold to provide a fund to be used for carrying out the purposes expressed in this chapter and to…

The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), and all of the provisions…

(a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this chapter, the California Library Construction and Renovation Finance Committee is hereby created. For purposes of this chapter, the C…

The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out the actions specified in Article 2 (commencing with Section 19955), and, if so, the amount of bonds to be issued and sold. Successive…

There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pay the principal of, and interest on, the bonds each year, and it is the duty of …

Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will equal the total of the following: (a) The sum annually necessary to pay the principal of, and inte…

For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds which have been authorized to be sold for the purpose of carrying out this chapter. Any a…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), if the Treasurer sells bonds pursuant to this bond act that include a bond coun…

The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of the Government Code, for the purposes of carrying out this chapter. The amount of the request shall not exceed the amount of the un…

Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Government Code. Approval by the electors of the state for the…

All money deposited in the fund which is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a credit to expenditures for bond interest.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not “proceeds of taxes” as that term is used in Article XIII B of the California Constitution, the disbursement of these proceeds is not subject to the l…

An amount not to exceed 1 percent of the fund may be used by the State Librarian for costs of administering this chapter.

The governing board of any school district may, for the purpose of providing practical instruction in agriculture, establish one or more school farms for any one or more of the schools of the district whenever in its judgment it is advisable to do so. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch.…

The cost of purchasing and equipping a school farm and all other costs not met from the receipts of the operation of the farm shall be a charge against the funds of the school district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of the district may provide for the general supervision of the farm and the cost of the supervision may be a charge against the funds of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

All moneys received from the sale of produce, livestock and other products of a farm shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the general fund of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of the school district may, as an alternative to the procedure provided for in Section 52703, establish an account for each such farm established in the district, or for all such farms established by the district, in one or more banks to be known as “The Schoo…

The governing board may designate an employee or employees of the district to have custody of the account or accounts established under Section 52704, who shall be responsible for the payment into the account or accounts of all moneys received for or to be paid into the account o…

The governing board may buy feed, livestock, and materials and supplies for a farm and may sell produce, livestock and other products of a farm in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board notwithstanding any provision of this code in conflict with such rules and…

In every public elementary school each day during the school year at the beginning of the first regularly scheduled class or activity period at which the majority of the pupils of the school normally begin the schoolday, there shall be conducted appropriate patriotic exercises. T…

(a) Providing instruction that promotes understanding the concepts of “pledge,” “allegiance,” “republic,” and “indivisible,” and understanding the importance of the pledge as an expression of patriotism, love of country, and pride in the United States of America shall satisfy the…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide accurate instructional materials to schools on all of the following topics: (1) The internment in the United States of persons of Japanese origin and its impact on Japanese American citizens. (2) The Armenian genocide. (3) The Wo…

The films or video recordings produced pursuant to this article shall be submitted to the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission for its review, and may be made available to schools, as provided by this article, only upon adoption by the Curriculum Developme…

The State Department of Education shall make available the films or video recordings produced pursuant to this article to schools.

(a) The student government of a school maintaining any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, may establish a committee of pupils and teachers to develop a survey by which pupils may provide feedback to teachers for the purpose of fostering improved communication between pupils and teache…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Career fair” means an event where multiple private businesses, governmental agencies, university representatives, or career technical school representatives are invited by a local educational agency to presen…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) be responsible for coordinating public, independent, and private postsecondary education in California and providing independent policy analyses and recommendations to the Legisl…

There is hereby created the California Postsecondary Education Commission, which shall be advisory to the Governor, the Legislature, other appropriate governmental officials, and institutions of postsecondary education. The commission shall be composed of the following members: (…

The commission shall have power to require the governing boards and the institutions of public postsecondary education to submit data on plans and programs, costs, selection and retention of students, enrollments, plant capacities and other matters pertinent to effective planning…

Unless otherwise specified, reports submitted to the Legislature by the California Postsecondary Education Commission shall be delivered to the Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees on education, the Senate education and Assembly higher education policy committees, the Legisla…

The commission has the following functions and responsibilities in its capacity as the statewide postsecondary education planning and coordinating agency and adviser to the Legislature and the Governor: (a) It shall require the governing boards of the segments of public postsecon…

To the extent that the functions and tasks assigned to the California Postsecondary Education Commission by state law cannot all be performed with the funding provided in the annual Budget Act, it is the intent of the Legislature that the commission prioritize its workload to ens…