The California Park and Recreational Facilities Act of 1984 authorizes the issuance of bonds for the purpose of providing funds to counties, cities, and districts for the acquisition, development, rehabilitation, or restoration of real property for park, beach, recreational, or historical resources preservation purposes. The act prohibits the use of the grant funds unless the applicant has agreed to certain conditions, including, but not limited to, using the property only for the purposes for which the grant was made and making no other use or sale or other disposition of the property, except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature.
The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) authorizes the issuance of bonds for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, improvement, rehabilitation, restoration, enhancement, and protection of park, recreational, cultural, historical, fish and wildlife, lake, riparian, reservoir, river, and coastal resources, as specified. That bond act prohibits the use of the grant funds unless the applicant has agreed to certain conditions, including, but not limited to, using the property only for the purposes for which the grant was made and making no other use or sale or other disposition of the property, except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature.
The Community Parklands Act of 1986 authorizes the issuance of bonds for the purpose of financing a grant program to counties, cities, and districts on the basis of their populations, as provided, for neighborhood, community, and regional parks, among other things. The act requires the applicant to agree that the property acquired or developed with these funds be used only for the purposes for which the funds were requested and that no other use of the property be used unless permitted by a specific act of the Legislature.
This bill would authorize the City of Modesto to dispose of all or a portion of Beard Brook Park acquired, developed, or improved with grant moneys from the bonds acts described above, subject to the acquisition of property of equal or greater value, as approved by the Department of Parks and Recreation, and at no cost to the state, as provided.