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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05E Assembly Bill No. 26.� Assembly Bill No. 26 CHAPTER 5 An act to amend Sections 33500, 33501, 33607.5, and 33607.7 of, and to add Part 1.8 (commencing with Section 34161) and Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170) to Division 24 of, the Health and Safery Code, and to add Sections 97.401 and 98.2 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to redevelopment, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget. [Approved by Govemor June 28, 2011. Filed with Secretary of State Junc 29, 201 l.] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 26, Blumenfield. Community redevelopment. (1) The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined. Existing law provides that an action may bc brought to review the validity of the adoption or amendment of a redevelopment plan by an agency, to review the validity of agency findings or determinations, and other agency ac[ions. This bill would revise the provisions of (aw authori2ing an action to be brought against the agency to determine or review the validiry of specified agency actions. (2) Existing law also requires that if an agency ceases to function, any surplus funds existing after payment of all obligations and indebtedness vest in thc community. The bill would suspend various agency activities and prohibit agencies from incurring indebtedness commencing on the ef%ctive date of this act. Ef�ective October i, 20l 1, the bill would dissolve all redevelopment agencies and community development agencies in existence and designate successor agencies, as defined, as successor entities. The bill would impose various requirements on the successor agencies and subject successor agency actions to the review of oversight boards, which the biil would establish. The bill would require counry auditor-controllers to conduct an agreed-upon procedures audit of each former redcvclopment agency by March 1, 2012. The biil would require the wunty auditor-controller to determine the amount of property taxes that would have been allocated to each redevelopment agency if the agencies had not been dissolved and deposit this amount in a Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund in the county. Revenues in the trust fund would be allocated to various taacing entities in the county and to cover specified expenses of the former agency. By imposing additional duties upon local public of�icials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. � 96 Ch.S —2— (3) The bill would prohibit a redevelopment agency from issuing new bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, or other obligations if any legal challenge to invalidate a provision of this act is successful. (4) The bill would appropriate $500,000 to the Deparhnent of Finance from the General Fund for administrative costs associated with the bill. (5) The bill woufd provide that its provisions take effect only if specified legislation is enacted in the 2011-12 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature. (6) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursemcnt is required by this act for a specified reason. (7) The California Constitution authorizes tl�e Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscai emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaf�inned by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 201 l, pursuant to the California Constitution. (8) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill. Appropriation: yes. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: 5ECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The economy and the residents of this state are slowly recovering from the worst recession since thc Great Depression. (b) State and local governments are still facing incredibly significant declines in revenues and increased need for core govertunental services. (c) Local governments across this state continue to confront difficult choices and have had to reduce fire and police protection among other services. (d) Schools have faced reductions in funding that have caused school districts to increase class size and layofi teachers, as well as make other hurtful cuts. (e) Redevelopment agencies have expanded over the years in this state. The expansion of redevelopment agencies has increasingly shifted property taxes away from services provided to schools, counties, special districts, and cities. OO � -3— Ch.S (fl Redevelopment agencies take in approximately 12 percent of all of the property taxes collected across this state. (g) It is estimated that under ciurent law, redevelopment agencies will divert $5 billion in property tax revenue from other taxing agencies in the 2011-12 fiscal year. (h) The Legislature has all legislative power not explicitly restricted to it. The Califomia Constitution does not require that redevelopmcnt agencies must exist and, unlike other entities such as counties, does not limit the Legislature's control over that existence. Redevelopment agencies were created by statute and can therefore be dissolved by statute. (i) Upon their dissolution, any property taxes diat would have been allocated to redevelopment agencies will no longer be deemed tax increment. Instead, those taxes will be deemed property tax revenues and will be allocated first to successor agencies to make payments on the indebtedness incurred by the dissolved redevelopment ageucies, with remaining balances allocated in accordance with applicable constitutioval and statutory provisions. (j) It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following in this act: (1) Bar existing redevelopment agencics from incurring new obligations, prior to their dissolution. (2) Allocate property tax revenues to successar agencies for making payments on indebtedness incurred by the redevelopment agency prior to its dissolution and allocate remaining balances in accordance with applicable constitutional and statutory provisions. (3) Beginning October l, 2011, allocate these funds according to the existing property tax allocation within each county to make the funds available for cities, counties, special districts, and school and community college districts. (4) Require successor agencies to expeditiously wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to provide the successor agencies with limited authority that extends only to the extent needed to implement a winddown of redevelopment agency affairs. SEC. 2. Section 33500 of the Heatth and Safety Code is amended to read: 3350o. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Section 33501, an action may be brought to review the validity of the adoption or amendment of a redevelopment plan at any time within 90 days after the date of the adoption of the ordinance adopting or amending the plan, if the adoption of the ordinancc occurred prior to January 1, 2�1 l. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Section 33501, an action may be brought to review the validity of any findings or determinations by the agency or the legislative body at any time within 90 days after the date on which the agency or the legislative body made those findings or determinations, if the findings or detcrminations occurred prior to January l, 2011. (c) Notwithstanding any othcr law, including Section 33501, an action may be brought to review the validity of the adoption or amendment of a 0 96 Ch.S —q— redevelopment plan at any time within two years after the date of the adoption of the ordinance adopting or amending the plan, if the adoption of the ordinance occurred after January J, 2011. (d) Notwithstanding any other law, including Section 33501, an action may be brought to rcview the validity of any findings or determinations by the agency or the legislarive body at any time within two years after the date on which the agency or the legislative body made those findings or determinations, if the findings or determinations occurred after January 1, 201 l . SEC. 3. Section 33501 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 33501. (a) An action may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9(commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure to detennine the validity of bonds and the redevelopment plan to be financed or refinanced, in whole or in part, by the bonds, or to determine the validity of a redevelopment plan not financed by bonds, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the legality and validity of all proceedings theretofore taken for or in any way connected with the establishment of the agency, its authority to transact business and exercise its powers, the designation of the survey area, the selection of the project area, the formulation of the preliminary plan, the validity of the find'uig and determination that the project area is predominantly urbanized, and the validity of thc adoption of the redevelopment plan, and also including the legality and validiry of a11 proceedings theretofore taken and (as provided in the bond resolution) proposed to be taken for the authorization, issuance, sale, and delivery of the bonds, and for the payment of the principal thereof and interest thereon. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an action to determine the validity of a redevelopment plan, or amendment to a redevelopment plan that was adopted prior to January l, 2011, may be brought within 90 days after the date of the adoption of the ordinance adopting or amending the plan. (c) Any action that is commenced on or af�er Januaty 1, 2011, which is brought pursuant to Chapter 9(commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure to determine the validity or legality of any issue, document, or action described in subdivision (a), may be brought within two years after any triggering event that occurred after January 1, 2011. (d) For the purposes of protecting the interests of the state, the Attorney General and the Department of Financc are interested persons pursuant to Section 863 of the Code of Civil Procedure in any action brought with respect to the validity of an ordinance adopting or amending a redevelopment plan pursuant to this section. (e) For purposes of contesting the inclusion in a project area of lands that are enforceably restricted, as that term is defined in Scctions 422 and 422.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or lands that are in agricultural use, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 51201 of thc Government Code, the Department of Conservation, the county agricultural commissioner, the OO 9G -5— Ch.S county farm bureau, the California Farm Bureau Federation, and agricultural entities and general farm organizations that provide a written request for notice, are interested persons pursuant to Section 863 of the Code of Civil Procedure, in any action brought with respect to the validity of an ordinance adopting or amending a redevelopment plan pursuant to this section. SEC. 4. Section 33607.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 33607.5. (a) (1) This section shall apply to each redevelopment project area that, pursuant to a redevelopment p(an which contains the provisions required by Section 33670, is either: (A} adopted on or after January 1, 1994, including later amendments to these redevelopment plans; ar(B) adopted prior to January 1, 1994, but amended, after January 1, 1994, to include new territory. For plans amended after January 1, 1994, only the tax increments from territory added by the amendment shal] bc subject to this section. All the amounts calculated pursuant to this section shall be calculated after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, and 33334.6 has bcen deducted from the total amount of tax increment funds received by the agency in the applicable fiscal year. (2) The payments made pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any amounts the affected taxing entities receive pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 33670. The payments made pursuant to this section to the affected taxing entities, including the community, shall be allocated among the affected taxing entities, including the community if the community elects to receive payments, in proportion to the percentage share ofproperty taxes each affected taxing entity, inchiding the community, receives during the fisca] year the funds are allocated, which percentage share shall be determined without regard to any amounts allocated to a ciry, a city and county, or a county pursuant to Sections 97.6R and 97.70 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and without regard to any allocation reductions to a city, a city and county, a county, a special district, or a redevelopment agency pursuant to Sections 97.71, 97.72, and 97.73 of the Revenue and Taxation Code and Section 33681.12. The agency shall reduce its payments pursuant to this section to an affected taxing entity by any amount the agency has paid, directly or indirectly, pursuant to Section 33445, 33445.5, 33445.6, 33446, or any other provision of law other than this section for, or in connection with, a public facility owned or leased by that affcctcd taxing agency, except: (A) any amounts the agency has paid directly or indirectly pursuant to an agreement with a taxing entity adopted prior to January 1, 1994; or (B) any amounts that are unrelated to the specific project area or amendment governed by this section. The reduction in a payment by an agency to a school district, community college district, or county office of education, or for special education, shall be subtracted only from the amount that otherwise would be available for use by those entitics for cducational facilities pursuant to paragraph (4). If the amount of the reduction exceeds the amount that otherwise would have been availablc for usc for educational 0 96 Ch.S —6— facilities in any one year, the agency shall reduce its payment in more than one year. (3) If an agency reduces its payment to a school district, community college district, or county of�ice of education, or for special education, the agency shall do all of the following: (A) Determine the amount of the total payment that would have been made without the reduction. (B) Determine the amount of the total payment without the reduction which: (i) would have been considered property ta�ces; and (ii) would have been available to be used for educational facilities pursuant to paragraph (4). (C) Reduce the amount available to be used far educational facilities. (D) Send the payment to the school district, communiry college district, or county office of education, or for special educatiou, wifli a statement that the payment is being reduced and including the calculation required by this subdivision showing the amount to be considered property taxes and the amount, if any, available for educational facilities. (4) (A) Except as specified in subparagraph (E), of the total amount paid each year pursuant to this section to school districts, 43.3 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (h) of Section 42238 of the Education Code, and 56.7 percent shall not be considered to be property taxes far the purposes ofthat section and shall be available to be used for educational facilities, including, in the case of amounts paid during the 2011-12 fiscal year through the 2015-16 fiscal year, inclusive, land acquisition, facility construction, reconstmction, remodeling, maintenance, or defened maintenance. (B) Except as specified in subparagraph (E), of the total amount paid each year pursuant to this section to communiry college districts, 47.5 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of Section 84751 of the Education Code, and 52.5 perccnt shall not be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of that section and shall be available to be used for educational facilities, including, in the case of amounts paid during the 2011-12 fiscal year through the 2015-16 fiscal year, inclusive, land acquisition, facility construction, reconstruction, remodeling, maintenance, or deferred maintenance. (C) Except as specified in subparagraph (E), of the total amount paid each yeaz pursuant to this section to county ofT�ices of education, 19 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of Section 2558 of the Education Code, and 81 percent sha11 not be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of that section and shall be available to be used for educational facilities, including, in the case of amounts paid during the 2011-12 fiscal year through the 2015-16 fiscal year, inclusive, laud acquisition, facility construction, reconstruction, remodeling, maintenance, or dcfcrrcd maintenance. (D) Except as specified in subparagraph (E), of the total amount paid each year pursuant to this section far special education, 19 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of Section 56712 of the a 9F -7— Ch.S Education Code, and 81 percent shall not be considered to be property taxes far the purposes of that section and shall be available to be used for education facilities, including, in the case of amounts paid during the 2011-12 fiscal year through the 2015-16 fiscal year, inclusive, land acquisition, faci(ity construction, reconstruction, remodeling, maintenance, or deferred maintenance. (E) lf, pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3), an agency reduces its payments to an educational entity, the calculation made by the agency pursuant to paragraph (3) shall determine the amount considered to be property taxes and the amount available to be used for educational facilities in the year the reduction was made. (5) Local education agencies that use funds received pursuant to this section for school facilities shall spend these funds at schools that are: (A) within the project area, (B) attended by students from the projcct area, (C) attended by students generated by projects that are assisted directly by the redevelopment agency, or (D) determined by the governing board of a local education agency to be of benefit to the project area. (b) Commencing with the first fiscal year in which the agency receives tax inerements and continuing through thc last fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments, a redevelopment agency shall pay to the affected taxing entitics, including the community if the community elects to receive a payment, an amount equal to 25 percent of the tax increments received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund has been deducted. In any fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments, the community dtat has adopted the redevelopment project area may elect to receive the amount authorized by this parasraph. (c) Commencing with the 1 lth fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments and coi�tinuing through the last fiscal year in which the agency receives taac increments, a redevelopment agency shall pay to the affected taxing entities, other than the community which has adopted the project, in addition to the amounts paid pursuant to subdivision (b) and after deducting the amount allocated to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, an amount equal to 2l percent of the portion of tax increments received by the agency, which shall be calculated by applying the tax rate against the amount of assessed value by which the current year assessed value exceeds the first adjusted base year assessed value. The first adjusted base year assessed value is the assessed value of the project area in the lOth fiscal year in which the agency receives tax incremcnt revenues. (d) Commencing with the 31st fiscal year in which the agency receives tax inerements and continuing through the last fiscal year 'vi wl�ich the agency receives tax increments, a redevelopment agency shall pay to the affected taxing entities, oflier than the community which has adopted the project, in addition to the amounts paid pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) and after deducting the amount allocated to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, an amount equal to 14 percent of the por[ion of tax incrcmcnts received by the agency, which shall be calculated by applying the tax rate � �6 Ch.S —g— against the amount of assessed value by which the current year assessed value exceeds the second adjusted base year assessed value. The second adjusted base year assessed value is the assessed value of the project area in the 30th fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments. (e) (1) Prior to incurring any loans, bonds, or other indebtedness, except loans or advances from the community, the agency may subordinate to the loans, bonds, or other indebtedness the amount required to be paid to an affected taxing entity by this section, provided that the af�'ected taxing entity has approved these subordinations pursuant to this subdivision. (2) At the time the agency requests an alTected t�ing entity to subordinate the amount to be paid to it, the agency shall provide the affected taxing entity with substantial evidence that sufficient funds will be available to pay both the debt service and the payments required by this section, when due. (3) Within 45 days after receipt oC the agency's request, the affected talting entity shall approve or disapprove the request for subordination. An affected taxing entity may disapprove a request for subordination only if it finds, based upon substantial evidence, that the agency will not be able to pay the debt payments and the amount required to be paid to the affccted taxing entity. If the affected ta�cing entity does not act within 45 days after receipt of the agency's request, thc request to subordinate shall be deemed approved and shall be final and conclusive. (fj (1) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (A) The payments made pursuant to this section are necessary in order to alleviate the financial burden and detriment that affected taxing entities may incur as a result of the adoption of a redevelopment plan, and payments made pursuant to this section will benefit redevelopment project areas. (B) The payments made pursuant to this section are the exclusive payments that are required to be made by a redevelopment agency to affected taxing entities during the term of a redevelopment plan. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of (aw, a redevelopment agency shall not be required, either directly or indirectly, as a measure to mitigate a significant environmental effect or as part of any settiement agreement or judgment brought in any action to contest the validity of a redevelopment ptan pursuant to Section 33501, to make any other payments to affected taxing entities, or to pay for public facilities that will be owned or leased to an affected taxing entity. (g) As used in this section, a"local education agency" is a school district, a community college district, or a county of�'ice of education. SEC. 5. Section 33607.7 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 33607.7. (a) 'This secrion shall apply to a redevelopment plan amendment for any redevelopment plans adopted prior to January 1, 1994, that increases the limitation on the number of dollars to be allocated to the redevelopment agency or that increases, or eliminates pwsuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 33333.6, the time limit on the establishing of loans, advances, and indebtedness established pursuant to paragraphs (1) 0 yb -9— Ch.S and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 33333.6, as those paragraphs read on December 31, 2001, or that lengthens the period during which the redevelopment plan is effective if the redevelopment plan being amended contains the provisions required by subdivision (b) of Section 33670. However, this section shall not apply to those redevelopment plans that add new territory. (b) If a redevelopment agency adopts an amendment that is governed by the provisions of this section, it shall pay to each affected taxing entity either of the following: (1) If an agreement exists that requires payments to the taxing entity, the amount required to be paid by an agreement between the agency and an aftected taacing entity entered into prior to January 1, 1994. (2) If an agreement does not exist, the amounts required pursuant to subdivisions (b), (c), (d), and (e) of Section 33607.5, until termination of the redevelopment plan, calculated against the amount of assessed value by which the current year assessed value exceeds an adjusted base year assessed value. The amounts shall be allocated between property taxes and educational facilities, including, in the case of amounYs paid during the 2011-12 fiscal year through the 2015-16 fiscal year, inclusive, land acquisition, facility construction, reconstruction, remodeling, maintenance, or deferred maintenance, according to the appropriate formula in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 33607.5. In determining the applicable amount under Section 33607.5, the first fiscal year shalt be the first fiscal year foltowing the fiscal year in which the adjusted base year value is deternuned. (c) The adjusted base year assessed value shall be the assessed value of the project area in the year in which the limitation being amended would have taken effect without the amendment or, if more than one ]imitation is being amcnded, the first year in which one or more of the limitations would have taken effect without ihe amendment. The agency shall commence making these payments pursuant to the terms of the agreement, if applicable, or, if an agreement does not exist, in the first fiscal year foilowing the fiscal year in which the adjusted base year value is determined. SEC. 6. Part 1.8 (commencing with Section 34161) is added to Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, to read: PART 1.8. RESTRICTIONS ON REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OPERATIONS CHAPTER 1. SUSPENSION OF AGENCY ACTIVITIES AND PROHIBIT[ON ON CREATION OF NEW DEBTS 34161. Notwithstanding Part 1(commencing with Secrion 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), and Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34 t00), or any other law, commencing on the effecrive date of this part, no agency shall incur new or expand existing monetary or legal obligations except as provided in this 0 96 cn. s — io— part. All of the provisions of this part shall take effect and be operative on the effective date of the act adding this part. 34162. (a) Notwithstanding Part 1(commencing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34D50), and Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100), or any other law, commencing on the effective date of this act, an agency shall be unauthorized and shall not take any action to incur indebtedness, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (1) Issue or sell bonds, for any purpose, regardless of the source of repaytnent of the bonds. As used in this section, the term "bonds," includes, but is not limited to, any bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, interim certificates, debentures, certificates of participation, refunding bonds, or other obligations issucd by an agency pursuant to Part 1(commencing with 5ection 33000), and Section 53583 of the Government Code, pursuant to any charter city authority or any revenue bond law. (2) Incur indebtedness payable from prohibited sources of repayment, wl�ich include, but are not limited to, income and revenues of an agency's redevelopment projects, taxes allocated to the agency, taxes imposed by the agency pursuant to Section 7280.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, assessments imposed by the agency, loan repayments made to the agency pursuant to Section 33746, fees or charges imposed by the agency, other revenues of the agency, and any contributions or other financial assistance from the state or federal government. (3) Refund, restructure, or refinance indebtedness or obligations that existed as of January 1, 2011, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (A) Refund bonds previously issued by the agency or by another political subdivision of the state, including, but not limited to, those issued by a city, a housing authority, or a nonprofit corporation acting on behalf of a city or a housing authority. (B) Exercise the right of optional redemption of any of its outstanding bonds or elect to purchase any of its own outstanding bon�ls. (C) Modify or amend the tertns and conditions, payment schedules, amortization or maturity dates of any of the agency's bonds or other obligations that are outstanding or exist as of January 1, 201 l. (4) Take out or accept loans or advances, for any purpose, from the state or the federal government, any other public agency, or any private lending institution, or from any other source. For purposes of this section, the term "loans" include, but are not limited to, agreements with the community or any other entity for the purpose of refinancing a redevelopment project and moneys advanced to the agency by the community or any other entity for the expenses of redevelopment planning, expenses for dissemination of redevelopment information, other administrative expenses, and overhead of the agency. (5) Execute trust deeds or mortgages on any real or personal property owned or acquired by it. ❑O 96 —ll— Ch.S (6) Pledge or encumber, for any putpose, any of its revenues or assets. As used in this part, an agency's "revenues and assets" include, but are not limited to, agency ta�c revenues, redevelopment project revenues, other agency revenues, deeds of trust and mortgages held by the agency, rents, fees, charges, moneys, accounts receivable, contracts rights, and other rights to payment of whatever kind or other real or personal property. As used in this part, to "pledge or encumber" means to make a commitment of, by the grant of a lien on and a security interest in, an agency's reveuues or assets, whether by resolution, indenture, trust agreement, loan agreement, lease, installment sale agreement, reimbursement agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, pledge agreement, or similar agreement in which the pledge is provided for or created. (b) Any actions taken that conflict with this section are void from the outset and shall have no force or effect. (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a redevelopment agency may issue refunding bonds, which are refened to in this part as F.mergency Refunding Bonds, only where all of the following conditions are met: (I) The issuance of Emergency Refunding Bonds is the only means available to the agency to avoid a default on outstanding agency bonds. (2) Both the county treasurer and the Treasurer have approved the issuance of Emergency Refunding Bonds. (3) Emergency Refunding Bonds are issued only to provide funds for any single debt service payment that is due prior to October 1, 2011, and that is more than 20 percent larger than a level debt service payment would be for that bond. (4) The principal amount of outstanding agency bonds is not increased. 34163. Notwithstanding Part 1(commencing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (conunencing with Section 34050), and Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100), or any other law, commencing on the effective date of this part, an agency shall not have the authority to, and shall not, do any of the following: (a) Make loans or advances or grant or enter into agreements to provide funds ar provide financial assistance of any sort to any entity or person for any purpose, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) Loans of moneys or any other thing of value or committnents to provide financing to nonprofit organizations to provide those organizations with financing for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, refinancing, or development of multifamily rental housing or the acquisition of commercial property for lease, each pursuant to Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 33741) of Part 1. (2) Loans of moneys or any other thing of value for residential construction, improvement, or rehabilitation pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 33750) of Part 1. These include, but are not limited to, cons[ruction loans to purchascrs of residential housing, mortgage loans to purchasers of residential housing, and loans to mortgage lenders, or any other entity, to aid in financing pursuant to Chapter 8(commencing with Section 33750). O � Ch.S —12— (3) The purchase, by an agency, of mortgage or construction loans from mortgage lenders or from any other entities. (b) En�er into contracts with, incur obligations, or make commitments to, any entity, whether governmental, tribal, or private, or any individual ar groups of individuals for any purpose, including, but not limited to, loan agreements, passthrough agreements, regulatory agreements, services contracts, leases, disposition and devclopment agreements, joint exercise of powers agreements, contracts for the purchase of capital equipment, agreements for redevelopment activities, including, but not limited to, agreements for planning, design, redesign, development, demolition, alteration, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, site remediation, site development or improvement, removal of graffiri, land clearance, and seismic retrofits. (c) Amend or modify existing agreements, obligations, or coinmitments with any entity, far any purpose, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (1) Renewing or extending term of leases or other agreements, except that the agency may extend lease space for its own use to a date not to exceed six months after the effective date of the act adding this part and for a rate no more than 5 percent above the rate the agency currently pays on a monthly basis. (2) Modifying terms and conditions of existing agreements, obligations, or commitments. (3) Forgiving aLL or any part of the balance owed to the agency on existing loans or extend the term or change the terms and conditions of existing loans. (4) Increasing its deposits to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund created pursuant to Section 33334.3 beyond the minimum level that �applied to it as of January 1, 2011. (5) Transferring funds out of the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, except to meet the minimum housing-related obligations that existed as of January 1, 2011, to make required payments under Sections 33690 and 33690.5, and to borrow funds pursuant to Section 34168.5. (d) Dispose of assets by sale, long-term lease, gii�, grant, exchange, transfer, assignment, or otherwise, for any purpose, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (1) Asscts, including, but not limited to, real properiy, deeds of trust, and mortgages held by the agency, moneys, accounts receivable, contract rights, proceeds of insurance claims, grant proceeds, settlement payments, rights to receive rents, and any other rights to payment of whatever kind. (2) Real property, including, but not limited to, land, land under water and waterfront property, buildings, structures, fixtures, and improvements on the tand, any property appurtenant to, or used in connection with, the land, every estate, interest, privilege, easement, franchise, and right in land, including rights-of-way, terms for years, and liens, charges, or encumbrances by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise, and the indebtedness secured by the liens. �i 96 -13— Ch.S (e) Acquire real property by any mcans for any purpose, including, but not limited to, the purchase, lease, or exercising of an option to purchase or lease, exchange, subdivide, transfer, assume, obtain option upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise acquire any real property, any interest in real property, and any improvements on it, including the repurchase of developed property previously owned by the agency and the acquisition of real property by eminent domain; provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision is intended to prohibit the acceptance or transfer of title for real property acquired prior to the ef%ctive date of this part. (� Transfer, assign, vest, or delegate any of its assets, funds, rights, powers, ownership interests, or obligations for any purpose to auy entity, including, but not limited to, the community, the legislative body, another member of a joint powers authority, a trustee, a receiver, a partner entity, another agency, a nonprofit corporation, a contractual counterparty, a public body, a lunited-equity housing cooperative, the state, a political subdivision of the state, the federal government, any private entity, or an individual or group of individuals. (g) Accept financial or other assistance from the state or federal government or any public or private source if the acceptance necessitates or is conditioned upon the agency incurring indebtedness as that term is described in this part. 34164. Notwithstanding Part 1(commencing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 340UU), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), and Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100), or any other law, commencing on the effective date of this part, an agency shall lack the authority to, and shall not, engage in any of the following redevelopment activities: (a) Prepare, approve, adopt, amend, or merge a redevelopment plan, including, but not limited to, modifying, extending, or otherwise changing the time limits on the effectiveness of a redevelopment plan. (b) Create, designate, merge, expand, or otherwise change the boundaries of a project area. (c) Designate a new survey area or modify, extend, or otherwise change the boundaries of an existing survey area. (d) Approve or direct or cause the approval of any program, project, or expenditure where approval is not required by law. (e) Prepare, formulate, amend, or otherwise modify a preliminary plan or cause the preparation, formulation, modification, or amendment of a preliminary plan. ( fl Prepare, formulate, amend, or otherwise modify an implementation plan or cause the preparation, formulation, modification, or amendment of an implementation plan. (g) Prepare, formulate, amend, or otherwise modify a relocation plan or cause the preparation, formulation, modification, or amendment of a relocation plan where approva] is not required by law. 0 96 Ch.S —14— (h) Prepare, formulate, amend, or otherwise modify a redevelopment housing plan or cause the preparation, formulation, modification, or amendment of a redevelopment housing plan. (i) Direct or cause the development, rehabilitation, or construction of housing units within the community, unless required to do so by an enforceable obligation. (j) Make or modify a declaration or finding of blight, blighted areas, or slum and blighted residential areas. (k) Make any new findings or declarations that any areas ofblight cannot be remedied or redeveloped by private enterprise alone. (� Provide or commit to provide relocation assistance, except where the provision of relocation assistance is required by law. (m) Provide or commit to provide financial assistance. 34165. Notwithstanding Part 1(commencing with Scction 33000), Part 1.5 (coinmencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), and Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100), or any other Iaw, commencing on the ef%ctive date of this pan, an agency shall lack the authority to, and shall not, do any of the following: (a) Enter into new partnerships, become a membcr in a joint powers authority, form a joint powers authority, create new entities, or become a member of any entity of which it is not currently a member, nor take on nor agree to any new duties or obligations as a member or otherwise of any entity to which the agency belongs or with wllich it is in any way associated. (b) Impose new assessments pursuant to Section 7280.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. (c) Increase the pay, benefits, or contributions of any sort for any officer, employee, consultant, contractor, or any other goods or service provider that had not previously been contracted. (d) Provide optional or discrerionary bonuses to any officers, employees, consultants, contractors, or any other service or goods providers. {e) Inerease numbers of staff employed by the agency beyond the number employed as of January 1, 2o 11. (� Bring an action pursuant to Chapter 9(commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure to determine the validiry of any issuance or proposed issuance of revenue bonds under this chapter and the legality and validity of all proceedings previously taken or proposed in a resolution of an agency to be taken for the authorization, issuance, sale, and delivery of the revenue bonds and for the payment of the principal thereof and interest thereon. (g) Begin any condemnation proceeding or begin the process to acquire real properry by eminent domain. (h) Prepare or have prepared a draft environmental impact report. This subdivision shall not alter or eliminate any requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of tt�e Public Resources Code). 34166. No legislative body or local governmental entity shall have any statutory authority to create or otherwise establish a new redevelopment � 96 �__ -15 — Ch. 5 agency or community development commission. No chartered city or chartered county shall exercise the powers granted in Part 1(commencing with Section 33000) to create or otherwise establish a redevelopment agency. 34167. (a) This part is intended to preserve, to the maximum extent possible, the revenues and assets of redevelopment agencies so that those assets and revenues that are not needed to pay for enforceable obligations may be used by local governments to fund core governmental services including police and fire protection services and schools. lt is the intent of the Legislature that redevelopment agencies take no actions that would further deplete the corpus of the agencies' funds regardless of their original source. All provisions of this part shall be construed as broadly as possible to support this intent and to restrict the expenditure of funds to the fullest extent possible. (b) For purposes of this part, "agency" or "redevelopmeut agency" means a redevelopment agency created or formed pursuant to Part 1(commencing with Section 33000) or its predecessor or a community development commission created or formed pursuant to Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100) or its prcdecessor. (c) Nothing in this part in any way impairs the authority of a community development commission, other than in its authority to act as a redevelopment agency, to take any actions ui its capacity as a housing authority or for any other community development purpose of the jurisdiction in whieh it operates. (d) For purposes of this part, "enforceable obligatiod' means any of the following: (1) Bonds, as defined by Section 33602 and bonds issued pursuant to Section 5850 of the Government Code, including the required debt service, reserve set-asides and any other payments required under the indenh�re or similar documents governing the issuance of the outstanding bonds of the redevelopment agency. (2) Loans of moneys borrowed by the redevelopment agency for a lawful purpose, including, but not limited to, moneys borrowed from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, to the extent they are legally required to be repaid pursuant to a required repayment schedule or other mandatory loan terms. (3) Payments required by the federal government, preexisting obligations to the state or obligations imposed by state law, other than passthrough payrnents that are made by the county auditor-controller pursuant to Section 34183, or legally enforceable payments required in connection with the agencies' employees, including, but not limited to, pension payrnents, pension obligation debt service, and unemployment payments. (4) Judgments or settlements entered by a competent court of law or binding arbitration decisions against the formcr redevelopment agency, other than passthrough payments that are made by the county auditor-controller pursuant to Section 34183. Along with the successor agency, the oversight board shall have the authority and standing to appeal any judgment or to set aside any settlement or arbitration decision. � 96 Ch.S —16— (5) Any legally binding and enforceable agreement or contract that is not otherwise void as violating the debt limit or public policy. (6) Contracts or agreements necessary for the continued administration or operation of the redevelopment agency to the extent permitted by this part, including but not limited to, agreements to purchase or rent office space, equipment and supplies, and pay-related expenses pursuant to Section 33127 and for carrying insurance pursuant to Section 33134. (e) To the extent that any pmvision of Part I(commencing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), or Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100) conflicts with this part, the provisions of this part shall control. Further, if any provision in Part 1(commeucing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), or Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100) provides an authority that this part is restricting or eliminating, the restriction and elimination provisions of this part shall control. (� Nothing iv this part shall be construed to interfere with a redevelopment agency's authority, pursuant to enforceable obligations as defined in this chapter, to (1) make payments due, (2) enforce existing covenants and obligations, or (3) perform its obligations. (g) The existing terms of any memorandum of understanding with an employee organization representing employees of a redevelopment agency adopted pursuant to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act that is in force on the effective date of this part shall continue in force until September 30, 2011, unless a new agreement is reached with a recognized employee organization prior to that date. (h) After the enforceable obligation payment schedule is adopted pwsuant to Section 34169, or after 60 days from the effective date of this part, whichever is sooner, the agency shall not make a payment unless it is listed in an adopted cnforceable obligation payment schedule, other than payments required to meet obligations with respect to bonded indebtedness. (i) 1'he Deparhnent of Finance and the Controller shall each have the authority to require any documents associated with the enforceable obligations to be provided to them in a manner of their choosing. Any taxing entity, the department, and the Controller shall each have standing to file a judicial action to preveni a violation under this part and to obtain injunctive or other appropriate relief. (j) For purposes of this part, "auditor-controller" mcans the ofi'icer designated in subdivision (e) of Section 24000 of the Government Code. 34167.5. Commencing on the ef%ctive date of the act adding this part, the Controller shall review the activities of redevelopment agencies in the state to determine whether an asset transfer has occurred after January 1, 2011, between the city or counry, or city and counry that created a redevelopment agency or any other public agency, and the redevelopment agency. If such an asset transfer did occur during that period and the government agency that received the assets is not contractually committed to a third party for the expenditure or encumbrance of those assets, to the � � -17 — Ch. 5 extent not prohibited by state and federal law, the Controller shall order the available assets to be returned to the redevelopment agency or, on or after October 1, 2011, to the successor agency, if a successor agency is established pursuant to Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170). Upon receiving such an ordcr from the Controller, an af�ected local agency shall, as soon as practicable, reverse the transfer and return the applicable assets to the redevelopment agency or, on or after Octobcr 1, 2011, to the successor agency, if a successor agency is established pursuant to Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170). The Legislature hereby finds that a transfer of assets by a redevelopment agency during the period covered in this section is deemed not to be in the furtherance of the Community Redevelopment Law and is thereby unautharized. 34168. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any action contesting the validity of this part or Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170) or challenging acts taken pursuant to these parts shall be brought in the Superior Court of the County of Sacramento. (b) If any provision of this part or the application thereoP to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this part which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this part are severable. CHAPTER 2. REDEVELOPMENT AGENGY RESPONSIBILITIES 34169. Until successor agencies are authorized pursuant to Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170), redevelopment agencies shall do all of the following: (a) Continue to make all scheduled payments for enforceable obligations, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 34167. (b) Perform obligations required pursuant to any enforceable obligations, including, but not limited to, observing covenants for continuing disclosure obligations and those aimed at preserving the tax-exempt status of intcrest payable on any outstanding agency bonds. (c) Set aside or maintain rescrves in the amount required by indentures, trust indentures, or similar documents governing the issuance of outstanding redevelopment agency bonds. (d) Consistent with the intent declared in subdivision (a) of Section 34167, preserve all assets, minimize all liabilities, and preserve all records of thc rcdevelopment agency. (e) Cooperate with the successor agencies, if established pursuant to Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170), and provide all records and information necessary or desirable for audits, making of payments required by enforceable obligations, and performance of enforceable obligations by the successor agencies. OO 96 Ch.S —18— (fj Take all reasonable measures to avoid triggering an event of default under any enforceable obligarions as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 34167. (g) (1) Within 60 days of the ef�'ective date of this part, adopt an Enforceable Obligation Payment Schedule that lists all of thc obligations that are enforceable within the meaning of subdivision (d) of Section 34167 which includes the following information about each obligation: (A) The project name associated with the obligation. (B) The payee. (C) A short description of the nature of the work, product, service, facility, or other thing of value for which payment is to be made. (D) The amount of payments obligated to be made, by month, through December 2011. (2) Payment schedules for issued bonds may be aggregated, and payment schedules for payments to employees may be aggregated. This schedule shal] be adopted at a public meeting and shall be posted on the agency's Internet Web site or, if no Internet Web site exists, on the lnternet Web site of the legislative body, if that body has an Internet Web site. The schedule may be amended at auy public meeting of the agency. Amendments shall be posted to the Internet Web site for at least three business days before a payment may be made pursuant to an amendment. The Enforceable Obligation Payment Schedule shall be transmitted by mail or electronic means to the county auditor-controller, the Controller, and the Department of Finance. A notification providing the Internet Web site location of the posted schedule and notifications of any amendments shall suffice to meet this requirement. (h) Prepare a preliminary draft of the initial recognized obligation payment schedule, no later than September 30, 2011, and provide it to the successor agency, if a successor agency is established pursuant to Part 1.85 (commcncing with Section 34170). (i) The Department of Finance may review a redevelopment agency action taken pursuant to subdivision (g) or (h). As such, all agency actions shall not be effective for three business days, pending a requcst for review by the department. Each agency shall designate an officia] to whom the department may make these requests and who shall provide the department with the telephone number and e-mail contact information for the purpose of communicating with the deparhnent pursuant to this subdivision. In the event that the department requests a review of a given agency action, thc department shall have 10 days from the date of its request to approve the agency action or return it to the agency for reconsideration and this action shall not be effective until approved by the department. ln the event that the department returns the agency action to the agency for reconsideration, the agency must resubmit the modified action for department approval and the modified action shall not become effective until approved by the department. This subdivision shall apply to a successor agcncy, if a successor agency is established pursuant to Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170), as a successor entity to a dissolvcd redcvelopment agency, with ❑L 96 -19 — Ch. 5 respect to the preliminary draft of the initial recognized obligation payment schedule. CHAPTER 3. APPLICATION OF PART TO FORMER PARTICIPANTS OF THE ALTERNATIVS VOLUNTARY REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 34169.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that a redevclopmcnt agency, that formerly operated pursuant to the Altemative Voluntary Redevelopment Program (Part 1.9 (commcncing with Section 34192)), but that becomes subject to this part pursuant to Section 34195, shall be subject to all of the requirements of this part, except that dates and deadlines shall be appropriately modified, as provided in this secrion, to reflect the date that the agency becomes subject to this part. (b) For purposes of a redevelopmcnt agcncy that becomes subject to this part pursuant to Section 34195, the following shall apply: (1) Any rcference to "January l, 2011," shall be construed to mean January 1 of the year preceding the year that the redevelopment agency became subject to this part, but no earlier than January i, 2011. (2) Any reference to a date "60 days from the effective date of this parY' shall be construed to mean 60 days from the date that the redevelopment agency becomes subject to this part. (3) Except as provided in paragraphs (1) and (2), any reference to a date certain shall be construed to be the date, measured from the date that the redevelopment agency became subject to this part, that is equivalent to the duration of time between the effective date of this part and the date certain identified in statute. SEC. 7. Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170) is added to Division 24 of the Health and Safery Code, to read: PART 1.85. DISSOLUTION OF REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES AND DESIGNATION OF SUCCESSOR AGENCIES CHAPTER 1. EFFECTIVE DATE� CREATION OF FUNDS, AND DEFINITION OF TERMS 34170. (a) Unless otherwise specified, all provisious of this part shall become operative on October 1, 2011. (b) If any provision of this part or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the imalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this part which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this part are severable. 34170.5. (a) The successor agency shall create within its treasury a Redevelopment Obligation Retirement Fund to be administered by the successoragency. ❑1 96 Ch. 5 — 20 — (b) The county auditor-controller shall create within the county treasury a Redevelopment Property Tax Tnzst Fund for the property tax revenues related to each former redevelopment agency, for administration by the county auditar-controller. 34171. The following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) `Administrative budget" means the budget for administrative costs of the successor agencies as provided in Section 34177. (b) Administrative cost allowance" means an amount that, subject to the approval of the oversight board, is payable from property tax revenues of up to 5 percent of the property tax allocated to the successor agency for the 2011-12 fiscal year and up to 3 percent of the property tax allocated to the Redevelopment Obligation Retirement Fund money that is allocated to the successor agency for each fiscal year thereafter; provided, however, that tl�e amount shall not be less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for any fiscal year or such lesser amount as agreed to by the successor agency. However, the allowance amount shall exclude any administrative costs that can be paid from bond proceeds or from sources other than property tax. (c) "Designated local autharity" shall mean a public entity formed pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 34173. (d) (1) "Enforceable obligation" means any ofthc following: (A) Bonds, as defined by Section 33602 and bonds issued pursuant to Section 58383 of the Government Code, including the required debt service, reserve set-asides, and any other payments required under the indenture or similar documents governing the issuance of the outstanding bonds of the former redevelopment agency. (B) Loans of moneys borrowed by the redevelopment age»cy for a lawful purpose, to the extent they are legally required to be repaid pursuant to a required repayment schedule or other mandatory loan terms. (C) Payments required by the federal government, preexisting obligations to the state ar obligations imposed by state law, other than passthrough payments that are made by the county auditor-controller pursuant to Secrion 34183, or legally enforceable payments required in connection with the agencies' employees, including, but not limited to, pension payments, pension obligation debt service, unemployment payments, or other obligations conferred through a collective bargaining agreement. (D) Judgments or settlements entered by a competent court of law or binding arbitration decisions against the former redevelopment agency, other than passthrough payments that are made by the counry auditor-controller pursuant to Section 34183. Along with the successor agency, the oversight board shall have the authority and standing to appeal any judgment ar to set aside any settlement or arbitration decision. (E) Any legally binding and enforceable agreement or contract that is not otherwise void as violating the debt limit or public policy. However, nothing in this act shall prohibit either the successor agency, with the approval or at the direction of the oversight board, or the oversight board itself from terminating any existing agreements or contracts and providing O y6 — 2l — Ch. 5 any necessary and required compensation or remediation for such termination. (F) Contracts or agreements necessary for the administration or operation of the successor agency, in accordance with this part, including but not limitcd to, agrccmcnts to purchase or rent office space, equipment and supplies, and pay-related expenses pursuant to Section 33127 and for carrying insurance pursuant to Section 33134. (G) Amounts borrowed from or payments owing to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a redevelopment agency, which had been deferred as of the effective date of the act adding this part; provided, however, that the repayment schedule is approved by the oversight board. (2) For purposes of this part, "enforceable obligation" does not include any agreements, contracts, or arrangements between the city, county, or ciry and county that created the redevelopment agency and the former redevelopment agency. However, written agreements entered into (A) at the time of issuance, but in no event later than December 31, 2010, of indebtedness obligations, and (B) solely far the purpose of securing or repaying those indebtedness obligations may be deemed enforceable obligations for purposes of this part. Notwithstanding this paragrapji, loan agreements entered into between the redevelopment agency and the city, county, or city and county that created it, within two years of the date of creation of the redevelopment agency, may be deemed to be enforceable obligations. (3) Contracts or agreements between the former redevelopment agency and other public agencies, to perform services or provide funding for governmental or private services or capital projects outside of redevelopment project areas that do not provide benefit to the redevelopment project and thus were not properly authorized under Part 1(commeneing with Section 33000) shall be deemed void on the effective date of this part; provided, however, that such contracts or agreements for the provision of housing properly authorized under Part 1(commencing with Section 33000) shall not be deemed void. (e) "Indebtedness obligations" means bonds, notes, certificates of participation, or other evidence of indebtedness, issued or delivered by the redevelopment agency, or by a joint exercise of powers authority created by the redevelopment agency, to third-party investors or bondholders to finance or refinance redevelopment projects undertalcen by the redevelopment agency in compliance with the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1(wmmencing with Section 33000)). (� "Oversight board" shall mean each entity established pursuant to Section 34179. (g) "Recognized obligation" means an obligation listed in the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. (h) "Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule" means the document setting forth the minimum payment amounts and due dates of payments required by enforceable obligations for each six-month fiscal period as provided in subdivision (m) of Section 34177. ❑1 96 Ch. 5 — 22 — (ij "School entity" means any entity defined as such in subdivision (� of Section 95 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. (j) "Successor agency" means the county, city, or city and coiuity that authorized the creation of each redevelopment agency or another entiry as provided in Section 34173. (k) "Taxing entities" means cities, counties, a city and county, special districts, and school entities, as defined in subdivision (fl of Section 95 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, that receive passthrough paytnents and distributions of property taxes pursuant to the provisions of this part. CHAPTER 2. EFFECT OF REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY DISSOLUTION 34172. (a) (1) All redevelopment agencies and redevelopment agency eomponents of community development agencies created under Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), and Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100) that were in existence on the effective date of this part are hereby dissolved and shall no longer exist as a public body, corporate or politia Nothing in this part dissolves or otherwise af%cts the authority of a community redevelopment commission, other than in its authority to act as a redevelopment agency, in its capacity as a housing authority or for any other community development purpose of the jurisdiction iu which it operates. For those other nonredevelopment purposes, the community development commission dcrivcs its authority solely from federal or local laws, or from state laws other than the Communiry Redevelopment Law (Part 1(commencing with Section 33UOU)). (2) A communiry in which an agency has been dissolved under this section may not create a new agency pursuant to Part 1(commencing with Section 33000), Part LS (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), or Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100). However, a community in which the agency has been dissolved and the successor entity has paid off all of the former agency's enforceable obligations may create a new agency pursuant to Part 1(commencing with Scction 33000), Part 1.5 (commcncing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), or Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 341 QO), subject to the tax increment provisions contained in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 34194.5) of Part 1.9 (commencing with Section 34192). (b) All authority to transact business or exercise powers previously granted under the Community Redevelopment Law (Part i(commencing with Section 33000) is hereby withdrawn from the former redevelopment agencies. (c) Solely for purposes of Section 16 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the Redevelopment Property TaJc Trust Fund shall be deemed to be a special fund of the dissolved redevelopment agency to pay the principal of and intcrest on loans, moncys advanccd to, or indcbtcdncss, 0 96 — 23 — Ch. 5 whether funded, reFunded, assumed, or otherwise incurred by the redevelopment agency to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, the redevelopment projects of each redevelopment agency dissolved pursuant to this part. (d) Revenues equivalent to thosc that would have been allocated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 16 ofArticle XVI of the California Constitution shall be allocated to the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund of each successor agency for making payments on the principal of and interest on loans, and moneys advanced to or indebtedness incurred by the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Amounts in excess of those necessary to pay obligations of the former redevelopment agency shall be deemed to be property ta�c revenues within the meaning of subdivision (a) of Section 1 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution. 34173. (a) Succcssor agencies, as defined in this part, are hereby designated as successor entities to the former redevelopment agencies. (b) Except for those provisions of the Communiry Redevelopment Law that are repealed, restricted, or revised pursuant to the act adding this part, alt authority, rights, powers, duties, and obligations previously vested with the former redevelopment agencies, under the Community Redevelopment Law, are hereby vested in the successor agencies. (c) (1) Where the redevelopment agency was in the form of a joint powers authority, and where the joint powers agreement governing the formation of the joint powers authority addresses the allocation of assets and liabilities upon dissolution of the joint powers authority, then each of the entities that created the former redevelopment agency may be a successor agency within the meaning of this part and each shall have a share of assets and liabilities based on the provisions of the joint powers agreement. (2) Where the redevelopment agency was in the form of a joint powers authority, and where the joint powers agreement governing the formation of the joint powers authority does not address the allocation of assets and liabilities upon dissolution of the joint powers authority, then each of the entities that created the former redevelopment agency may be a successor agency within the meaning of this part, a proportionate share of the assets and liabilities shall be based on the assessed value in the project areas within each entity's jurisdiction, as determined by the county assessor, in its jurisdiction as compared to the assessed value of land within the boundarics of the project areas of the former redevelopment agency. (d) (1) A city, county, city and county, or the entities forming the joint powers authority that authorized the creation of each redevelopment agency may elect not to serve as a successor agency under this part. A city, county, city and county, or any member of a joint powers authority that clects not to serve as a successor agency under this part must file a copy of a duly authorized resolution of its governing board to that effect with the county auditor-controller no later than one month prior to the effective date of this part. (2) The determination of the first local agency that elects to become the successor agency shall be made by the county auditor-controller based ou 0 96 Ch. 5 — 24 — the earliest receipt by the county auditor-controller of a copy of a duly adopted resolution of the local agency's governing board authorizing such an election. As used in this section, "local agency" means any city, county, city and county, or special district in the county of the former redevelopment agency. (3) If no local agency elects to serve as a successor agency for a dissolved rcdeveloPment agency, a public body, referred to herein as a"designated local authority" shall be immediately formed, pursuant to this part, in the county and shall be vested with all the powers and duties of a successor agency as described in this part. The Governor shall appoint three residents of the county to serve as the governing board of the authority. The designated local authority shall serve as successor agency until a local agency elects to become the successor agency in accordance with this section. (e) "I'he liability of any successor agency, acting pursuant to the powers granted under the act adding this part, shall be limited to the extent of the total sum of property tax revenues it receives pursuant to this part and the value of assets transferred to it as a successor agency f'or a dissolved redevelopment agency. 34174. (a) Solely for the purposes of Section 16 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, commencing on the effective date of this part, all agency loans, advances, or indebtedness, and interest thereon, shall be deemed extinguished and paid; provided, however, that nothing herein is intended to absolve the successor agency of payment or other obligations due or imposed pursuant to the enforceable obligations; and provided further, that nothing in the act adding this part is intended to be construed as an action or circumstance that may give rise to an event of default under any of the documents governing the enforceable obligations. (b) Nothing in this part, including, but not limited to, the dissolution of the redevelopment agencies, the designation of successor agencies, and the transfer of redevelopment agency assets and properties, shall be construed as a voluntary or involuntary insolvency of any redevelopment agency for purposes of the indenture, trust indenture, or similar document goveming its outstanding bonds. 34175. (a) ]t is the intent of this part that pledges of revenues associated with enforceable obligations of the former redevelopment agencies are to be honored. It is intended that the cessation of any redevelopment agency shall not affect either the pledge, the legal existence of that pledge, or the stream of revenues available to meet the requirements of the pledge. (b) All assets, properties, contracts, leases, books and records, buildings, and equipment of the former redevelopment agency are transfened on October 1, 2011, to the control of the successor agency, for administration pursuant to the provisions of this part. This includes ail cash or cash equivalents and amounts owed to the redevelopment agency as of October 1, 2011. 34176. (a) The city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency may elect to retain the housing assets and functions previously performed by the redevelopment agency. If a city, � 96 — 25 — Ch. 5 county, or city and county elects to retain the responsibility for performing housing functions previously performed by a redevelopment agency, all rights, powers, duties, and obligations, excluding any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, shall be transferred to the city, county, or city and county. (b) If a city, county, or city and county does not elect to retain the responsibility for performing housing functions previously performed by a redevelopment agency, all rights, powers, assets, liabilities, duties, and obligations associated with the housing activities of the agency, excluding any amounts in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, shalt be transferred as follows: (1) Wltere there is no local housing authority in the territorial jurisdiction of the former redevelopment agency, to the Department of Housing and Community Development. (2) Where there is one Iocal housing authority in the territorial jurisdiction of the former redevelopment agency, to that local housing authority. (3) Where there is more than one local housing authority in the territorial jurisdiction of the former redevelopment agency, to the local housing autharity selected by the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of the redevelopment agency. (c) Commencing on tlie operative date of this part, the entity assuming the housing functions fortnerly performed by the redevelopment agency may enforce affordabiliry covenants and perform related activities pursuant to applicable provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000), including, but not limited to, Section 33418. CHAPTER 3. SUCCESSOR AGENCIES 34177. Successor agencies are required to do all of the following: (a) Continue to make payments due for enforceable obligations. (1) On and after October 1, 2011, and until a Recognized Obligarion Payment Schedule becomes operative, only payments required pursuant to an enforceable obligations payment schedule shall be made. The initial enforceable obligation payment schedule shall be the last schedule adopted by the redevelopment agency under Section 34169. However, payments associated with obligations excluded from the definition of enforceable obligations by paragraph (2) of subdivision (e) of Section 34171 shall be excluded from the enforceable obligations payment schedule and be removed from the last schedule adopted by the redevelopment agency under Section 34169 prior to the succcssor agcncy adopting it as its enforceable obligations payment schedule pursuant to this subdivision. The enforceable obligation payment schedule may be amended by the successor agency at any public meeting and shall be subject to the approval of the oversight board as soon as the board has sufficient members to form a quorum. ❑1 96 Ch. 5 — 26 — (2) The Department of Finance and the Controller shall each have the authoriry to require any documents associated with the enforceable obligations to be provided to them in a manner of their choosing. Any taxing entity, the department, and the Coniroller shall each have standing to file a judicial action to prevent a violation under this part and to obtain injunctive or other appropriate relief. (3) Commencing on January 1, 2012, only those payments listed in the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule may be made by the successor agency from the funds specified in the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. In addition, commencing January i, 2012, the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule shall supersede the Statement of Indebtedness, which shall no longer be prepared nor have any effect under the Community Redevelopment Law. (4) Nothing in the act adding this part is to be construed as preventing a successor agency, with the prior approval of the oversight board, as described in Section 34179, from making payments for enforceable obligations from sources other than those listed in the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. (5) From �etober 1, 2011, to July i, 2012, a successor agency shall have no authority and is hereby prohibited from accelerating paytnent or making any lump-sum payments that are intended to prepay loans unless such accelerated repayments were required prior to the effective date of this part. (b) Maintain reserves in the amount required by indentures, trust indentures, or similar documents governing the issuance of outstanding redevelopment agency bonds. (c) Perform obligations required pursuant to any enforceable obligation. (d) Remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds to the county auditor-controller for distribution to the taxing entities, including, but not limited to, the unencumbered balance of the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a former redevelopment agency. In making the distribution, the county auditor-controller shall utilize the same methodology for allocation and distribution of property tax revenues provided in Section 34188. (e) Dispose of assets and properties of the former redevelopment agency as directed by the oversight board; provided, however, that the oversight board may instead direct the successor agency to transfer ownership of certain assets pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 34181. Thc disposal is to be done expeditiously and in a manner aimed at maximizing value. Proceeds from asset sales and related funds that are no longer needed for approved development projects or to otherwise wind down the affairs of the agency, each as determined by the oversight board, shall be transferred to the county auditor-controller for distribution as property tax proceeds under Section 34188. (� Enforce all formcr rcdcvclopment agency rights far the benefit of the taxing entities, including, but not limited to, continuing to collect loans, rents, and other revenues that were due to the redevelopment agency. 0 96 — 27 — Ch. 5 (g) Effectuate transfer of housing functions and assets to the appropriate entity designated pursuant to Section 34176. (h) Expeditiously wind down the afiairs of the redevelopment agency pursuant to the provisions of this part and in accordance with the direction of the oversight board. (i) Continue to oversee development of properties until the contracted work has been completed or the contractual obligations of the former redevelopment agency can be transferred to other parties. Bond proceeds shall be used for the purposes for which bonds were sold unless the purposes can no longer be achieved, in which case, the proceeds may be used to defease the bonds. (j) Prepare a proposed administrarive budget and submit it to the oversight board for its approval. The proposed administrative budget shall include all of the following: (1) Estimated amounts for successor agency administrative costs for the upcoming six-month fiscal period. (2) Proposed sources of payment for the costs identified in paragraph (1). (3) Proposals for arrangemcnts for administrative and operations services provided by a city, county, city and county, or other entiry. (k) Pmvide administrative cost estimates, from its approved admiuistrative budget that are to be paid from property tax revenues deposited in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, to the county auditor-controller for each six-month fiscal period. (� (1) Before each six-montli fiscal period, prepare a Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule in accordance with the requirements of this paragraph. For each recognized obligation, the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule shall identify one or more of the following sources of payment: (A) Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. (B) Bond proceeds. (C) Reserve balances. (D) Admitustrative cost allowance. (E) The.Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, but only to the extent no other funding source is available or when payment from property tax revenues is required by an enforceable obligation or by the provisions of this part. (F) Other revenue sources, including rents, concessions, asset sale proceeds, interest earnings, and any othcr rcvcnucs dcrived from thc formcr redevelopment agency, as approved by the oversight board in accordance with this part. (2) A Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule shall not be deemed valid unless all of the following conditions have been met: (A) A draft Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule is prepazed by the successor agency for the enforceable obligations of the former redevelopment agency by November 1, 2011. From Octobcr l, 2011, to July 1, 2012, thc initial draft of that schedule shall project the dates and amounts of scheduled � �b Ch. 5 — 28 — payrnents for each enforceable obligation for the remainder of the time period during which the redevelopment agency would have been authorized to obligate property taJc increment had such a redevelopment agency not been dissolved, and shall be reviewed and certified, as to its accuracy, by an external auditor designated pursuant to Section 34182. (B) The certified Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule is submitted to and duly approved by the oversight board. (C) A copy of the approved Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule is submitted to the counry auditor-controller and both the Controller's office and the Department of Finance and be posted on the successor agency's Internet Web site. (3) The Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule shall be forward looking to the next six months. The first Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule shall be submitted to the Controller's officc and thc Dcpartment of Finance by December 15, 201 l, for the period of January 1, 2012, to June 30, 2012, inclusive. Former redevelopment agency enforceable obligation payments due, and reasonable or necessary administrative costs due or incuned, prior to J anuary 1, 2012, shall be made from property tax revenues received in the spring of 2011 property tax distribution, and from other revenues and balances transfened to the successor agency. 34178. (a) Commencing on the operative date of this part, agreements, contracts, or arrangements between the city or county, or city and county that created the redevelopment agency and the redevelopment agency are invalid and shall not be binding on the successor agcncy; provided, however, that a successor entity wishing to enter or reenter into agreements with the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment ageucy that it is succeeding may do so upon obtaining the approval of its oversight board. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), any of the following agreement�s are not invalid and may bind the successor agency: (1) A duly authorized written agreement entered into at the time of issuance, but in no event later than December 31, 2010, of indebtedness obligations, and solely for the purpose of securing or repaying those indebtedness obligations. (2) A written agreement between a redevelopment agency and the city, county, or city and county that created it that provided loans or other starlup funds for the redevelopment agency that were entered into within two years of the formation of the redevelopment agency. (3) A joint exercise of powcrs agrccmcnt in which the redevelopment agency is a member of the joint powers authority. However, upon assignment to the successor agency by operation of the act adding this part, the successar agency's rights, duties, and performance obligations under that joint exercise of powers agreement shall be limited by the constraints imposed on successor agencies by the act adding this part. 34178.7. For purposes of this chapter with regard to a redevelopment agency that becomes subject to this part pursuant to Section 34195, only refereuces to "October 1, 2011," and to the "operative date of this part" O 96 — 29 — Ch. 5 shall be modified in the manner described in Section 34191. All other dates shall be modified only as necessary to reflect the appropriate fiscal year or portion of a fiscal year. CHAPTER 4. OVERSIGHT BOARDS 34179. (a) Each successor agency shall have an oversight board composed of seven members. The members shall elect one of their members as the chairperson and shall report the name of the chairperson and other members to the Department of Finance on or before January 1, 2012. Members shali be selected as follows: (1) One member appointed by the county board of supervisors. (2) One member appointed by the mayor for the city that formed the redevelopment agency. (3) One member appointed by the largest special district, by property tax share, with temtory in the territorial jurisdiction of the former redevelopment agency, which is of the rype of special district that is eligible to receive properly tax revenues pursuant to Section 34188. (4) One member appointed by the county superintendent of education to represent schools if the superintendent is elected. If the county superintendent of education is appointed, then the appointment made pursuant to this paragraph shall be made by the county board of education. (5) One member appointed by the Chaucellor of the California Community Coileges to represent community college districts in the county. (6) One member of the public appointed by the counry board of supervisors. (7) One member representing the employees of the former redevelopment agency appointed by the mayor or chair of the board of supervisors, as the case may be, from the recognized employee organization representing the largest number of former redevelopment agency employees employed by the successor agency at that time. (8) If the county or a joint powers agency formed the redevelopment agency, then the largest city by acreage in the territorial jurisdiction of the former redevelopment agency may select onc member. If there are no cities with territory in a project area of the redevelopment agency, the county superintendent of education may appoint an additional member to represent the public. (9) If there are no special districts of the rype that are eligible to receive property tax pursuant to Section 34188, within the territarial jurisdiction of the former redevelopment agency, then the county may appoint one member to represent the public. (10) Where a redevelopment agency was formed by an entiry that is both a charter city and a county, the oversight board shall be composed of seven members selected as follows: three members appointed by the mayor of the city, where such appointment is subiect to confirmation by the county board of supervisors, one member appointed by the largest special district, by 0 96 Ch. 5 — 30 — properry tax share, with territory in the territorial jurisdiction of the fornier redevelopment agency, which is the type of special district that is eligible to receive property tax revenues pursuant to Section 34188, one member appointed by the counry superintendent of education to represent schools, one member appointed by the Chancellor of the Califomia Community Colleges t� represent community college districts, and one member representing employees of the former redevelopment agency appointed by the mayor of the city where such an appointment is subject to confirmation by the county board of supervisors, to represent the largest number of former redevelopment agency employees employed by the successor agency at that time. (b) The Governor may appoint individuals to fill any oversight board member position described in subdivision (a) that has not been filled by January 15, 2012, ar any member position that remains vacant for more than 60 days. (c) The oversight board may dircct the staff of the successor agency to perform work in furtherance of the oversight board's duties and responsibilities under this part. The successor agency shall pay for all of the costs of ineetings of the oversight board and may include such costs in its administrative budget. Oversight board members shall serve without compensation or reimburscmcnt for cxpenses. (d) Oversight board members shall have personal immunity from suit for their actions taken within the scope of their responsibilities as oversight board members. (e) A majarity of the total membership of the oversight board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. A majority vote of the total membership of the oversight board is required for the oversight board to take action. The oversight board shall be deemed to be a local entity for purposes of the Ralph M. Brown Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974. ( fl All notices required by law for proposed oversight board actions shall also be posted on the successor agency's Internet Web site or the oversight board's Internet Web site. (g) Each member of an oversight board shall serve at the pleasure of the entity that appointed such member. (h) The Department of Finance may review an oversight board action taken pursuant to the act adding this part. As such, all oversight board actions shall not be effective for three business days, pending a request for review by the department. Each oversight board shall designatc an official to whom the department may make such requests and who shall provide the department with the telephone number and e-mail contact information for the purpose of communicating with the department pursuant to this subdivision. In the event that tlie department reyuests a review of a given oversight board action, it shall have 10 days from the date of its request to approve the oversight board action or return it to the oversight board for reconsideration and such oversight board action shall not be effective until approved by the department. In the event that the department retums the ❑i 96 — 31— Ch. 5 oversight board action to the oversight board for reconsideration, the oversight board shall resubmit the modified action for department approval and the modified oversight board action shall not become effective until approved by the department. (i) Oversight boards shall have fiduciary responsibilities to holders of enforceable obligations and the taxing entities that benefit from distriburions of property tax and othcr revenues pursuant to Section 34188. Further, the provisions of Division 4(commencing with Section 1000) of the Government Code shall apply to oversight boards. Notwithstanding Section 1099 of the Government Code, or any other law, any individual may simultaneously be appointed to up to five oversight boards and may hold an office in a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, or community college district. (j) Cotnmencing on and after July 1, 2016, in each county where more than one oversight board was created by operation of the act adding this part, there shall be only one oversight board appointed as follows: (1) One member may be appointed by the county board of supervisors. (2) One member may be appointed by the city selection committee established pursuant to Section 50270 of the Government Code. In a ciry and county, the mayor may appoint one member. (3) One member may be appointed by the independent special district selection committee established pursuant to Section 56332 of the Government Code, for the types of special districts that are eligible to receive property tax revenues pursuant to Section 34188. (4) One member may be appointed by the county superintendent of education to represent schools if the superintendent is elected. If the county superintendent of education is appointed, then the appointment made pursuant to this paragraph shall be made by the county board of education. (5) One member may be appointed by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to represent community college districts in the county. (6) One member of the public may be appointed by the county board of supervisors. (7) One member may be appointed by the recognized employee organization representing the largest number of successor agency employees in the county. (k) The Governor may appoint individuals to fill any oversight board member position described in subdivision (j) that has not been filled by July 15, 2016, or any member position that remains vacant for more than 60 days. (� Commencing on and after July 1, 2016, in each county where only one oversight board was created by operation of the act adding this part, then there will be no change to the composition of that oversight board as a result of the operation of subdivision (b). (m) Any oversight board for a given successor agency shall cease to exist when all of the indebtedness of the dissolved redevelopment agency has been repaid. � 96 Ch. 5 — 32 — 34180. All of the following successor agency actions shall first be approved by the oversight board: (a) The establishment of new repayment terms f'or outstanding loans where the terms have not been specified prior to the date of this part. (b) Refunding of outstanding bonds or other debt of the fortner redevelopment agency by successor agencies in order to provide for savings or to finance debt service spikes; provided, however, that no additional debt is created and debt service is not accelerated. (c) Setting aside of amounts in reserves as required by indentures, trust indentures, or similar documents governing the issuance of outstanding redevelopment agency bonds. (d) Merging of project areas. (e) Continuing the acceptance of federal or state grants, or other forms offinancial assistance from eitherpublic orprivate sources, where assistance is conditioned upon the provision of matching funds, by the successor entity as successor to the fortner redevelopment agency, in an amount greater than 5 perceut. ( fl( I) If a city, county, or city and county wishes to retain any properties or other assets for future redcvclopment activities, funded from its own funds and under its own auspices, it must reach a compensation agreement with the other taxing entities to provide payments to them in propoition to their shares of the base property tax, as determined pursuant [o Section 34188, for the value of the property retained. (2) If no other agreement is reached on valuation of the retained assets, the value will be the fair market value as of the 2011 property tax lien date as deternuned by the county assessor. (g) Establishment of the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. (h) A request by the successor agency to enter into an agreement with the ciry, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency that it is succeeding. (i) A request by a successor agency ar taJcing entity to pledge, or to enter into an agreement for the pledge of, property tax rcvcnucs pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 34178. 34181. The oversight board shall direct the successor agency to do all of the following: (a) Dispose of all assets and properties of the former redevelopment agency that were funded by tax incremcnt revenues of the dissolved redevelopment agency; provided, however, that the oversight board may instead direct the successor agency to transfer ownership of those assets that were constructed and used for a governmental purpose, such as roads, school buildings, parks, and fire stations, to the appropriate public jurisdiction pursuant to any existing agreements relating to the construction or use of such an asset. Any compensation to be provided to the successor agency far thc transfer of the asset shail be governed by the agreements relating to the construction or use of that asset. Disposal shall be done expeditiously and in a manner aimed at maximizing value. � 96 — 33 — Ch. 5 (b) Cease performance in connection with and terminate all existing agreements that do not qualify as enforceable obligations. (c) Transfer housing responsibilities and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations along with any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund to the appropriate entity pursuant to Section 34176. (d) Terminate any agreement, between the dissolved redevelopment agency and any public entity located in the same county, obligating the redevelopment agency to provide funding for any debt service obligations of the public entity or for the construction, or operation of facilities owned or operated by such public entity, in any instance where the oversight board has found that early termination would be in the best interests of the taxing entities. (e) Determine whether any contracts, agreements, or other arrangements between the dissolved redevelopment agency and any private parties should be terminated or renegotiated to reduce liabilities and increase net revenues to the taxing entities, and present proposed termination or amendment agreements to the oversight board for its approval. The board may approve any amendments to or early termination of such agreements where it finds that amendments or early termination would be in the best interests of the taxing entities. CHAPTER S. DUTIES OF THE AUDITOR-CONTROLLER 34182. (a) (1) The county auditar-controller shall conduct or cause to be conducted an agreed-upon procedures audit of each redevelopment agency in the county that is subject to this part, to be completed by March 1, 2012. (2) Thc purpose of thc audit�g shall bc to cstablish cach rcdcvclopmcnt agency's assets and liabilities, to document and determine each redevelopment agency's passthrough paytnent obliga6ons to other taxing agencies, and to document and determine both the amount and the terms of any indebtedness incurred by the redevelopment agency and certify the initial Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. (3) T'he county auditor-controller may charge the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund for any costs incwred by the county auditor-controller pursuant to this part. (b) By March 15, 2012, the county auditor-controller shall provide the Controller's ofT'ice a copy of all audits performed pursuant to this section. The county auditor-controller shall maintain a copy of all documentation and warking papers for use by the Controller. (c} (1) The county auditor-controller shall determine the amount of property taJces that would have been allocated to each redevelopment agency in the county had the redevelopment agency not been dissolved pursuant to the operation of the act adding this part. These amounts are deemed property taJ{ revenues within the meaning of subdivision (a) of Section 1 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution and are available for allocation and distribution in accordance with the provisions of the act adding this part. � y6 Ch. 5 — 34 — The county auditor-controller shall calculate the property tax revenues using current assessed values on the last equalized roll on August 20, pursuant to Section 2052 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and pursuant to statutory formulas or contractuai agreements with other t�ing agencies, as of the effective date of this section, and shall deposit that amount in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund. (2) Each county auditor-controller shall administer the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund for the benefit of the holders of former redevelopment agency enforceable obligations and the taxing entities that receive passthrough payments and distributions of property taxes pursuant to this part. (3) ln connection with the allocation and distribution by the county auditor-controller ofproperty tax revenues deposited in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, in compliance with this part, the county auditor-controller shall prepare estimates of amounts to be allocated and distributed, and provide those estimates to both the entities receiving the distributions and the Department of Finance, no later than November 1 and May 1 of each year. (4) Each county auditor-controller shall disburse proceeds of asset sales or reserve balances, which have been received from the successor entities pursuant to Sections 34177 and 34187, to the taxiug entities. In making such a distribution, the counry auditor-controller shall utilize the same methodology for allocation and distribution of property tax revenues provided in Section 34188. (d) By October 1, 2012, the county auditor-controller shall report the following information to the Controller's office and the Director of Finance: (1) The sums of property tax revenues remitted to the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund related to each former redevelopment agency. (2) The sums of properiy tax revenues remitted to each agency under paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 34183. (3) The sums of property taJc revenues remitted to each successor agency pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 34183. (4) The sums of property tax revenues paid to each successor agency pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 34183. (5) The sums paid to each city, county, and special district, and the total amount allocated for schools pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 34183. (6) Any amounts deducted from other distributions pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 34183. (e) A county auditor-controller may charge the Redevelopment Property Tax Tntst Fund for the costs of administering the provisions of this part. (fl The Controller may audit and review any county auditor-controller action taken pursuant to the act adding this part. As such, all county auditor-controiler actions shall not be effective for tlu-ee business days, pending a request for review by the Controller. In the event that the Controller requests a review of a given county auditor-controller action, he or she shall have 10 days from the date of his or her request to approve the �1 96 — 35 — Ch. 5 county auditor-controller's action or return it to the county auditor-controller for reconsideration and such county auditor-controller action shall not be effective until approved by the Controller. In the event that the Controller retums the county auditor-controller's action to the county auditor-controller for reconsideration, the county auditor-controller must resubmit the modified action for Controller approval and such modified county auditor-controller action shall not become effective until approved by the Controller. 34183. (a) Notwithstanduig any other law, from October 1, 2011, to ]uly 1, 2012, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the county auditor-controller shall, after deducting administrative costs allowed under Section 34182 and Section 95.3 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, allocate moneys in each Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund as follows: (1) Subject to any prior deductions required by subdivision (b), first, the county auditor-controller shatl remit from thc Rcdcvclopmcnt Property Tax Trust Fund to each local agency and school entity an amount of property tax revenues in an amount equal to that which would have been received under Section 33401, 33492.140, 33607, 33607.5, 33607.7, or 33676, as those sections read on January l, 2011, or pursuant to any passthrough agreement bctwcen a rcdcvclopmcnt agency and a taxing jurisdiction that was entered into prior to January 1,1994, that would be in force during that fiscal year, had the redevelopment agency existed at that time. The amount of the payments made pursuant to this paragraph shal] be calculated solely on the basis of passthrough payment obligations, existing prior to the effective date of this part and continuing as obligations of successor entities, shall occur no later than January 16, 2012, and no later than June 1, 2012, and each January 16 and June 1 thereafter. Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 33670, that portion of the taxes in excess of the amount identified in subdivision (a) of Section 33670, which are attributable to a ta�c rate lcvied by a taxing agency for the purpose of producing revenues in an amount sufficient to malce annual repayments of the principal of, and the interest on, any bonded indebtedness for the acquisirion or improvement of real property shall be allocated to, and when collected shall be paid into, the fund of that taxing agency. (2) Second, on January 16, 2012, and June 1, 2012, and each January 16 and June 1 thereafter, to each successor agency for payments listed in its Recognized Obiigation Payment Schedule for the six-month fiscal period beginning January 1, 2012, or 7uly 1, 2012, and cach January 16 and Junc 1 thereafter, in the following order of priority: (A) Debt service payments scheduled to be made for tax allocation bonds. (B) Payments scheduled to be made on revenue bonds, but only to the extent the revenues pledged for them are insufficient to make the payments and only where the agency's tax increment revenues were also pledged for the repayment of the bonds. (C) Payments scheduled for other debts and obligations listed in the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule that are required to be paid from former tax increment revenue. ❑i 96 Ch. 5 — 36 — (3) Third, on January 16, 2012, and June 1, 2012, and each January 16 and June 1 thereafter, to each successor agency for the administrative cost allowance, as defined in Section 34171, for administrative costs set forth in an approved administrative budget for those payments required to be paid from former tax increment revenues. (4) Fourth, on January 16, 2012, and June 1, 2012, and each lanuary 16 and June 1 thereafter, any moneys remaining in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund after the payments and transfers authorized by paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, shall be distributed to local agencies and school entities in accordance with Section 34188. (b) If the successor agency reports, no later than December 1, 2011, and May 1, 2012, and each December 1 and May 1 thereafter, to the county auditor-controller that the total amount available to the successor agency from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund allocation to that successor ageLicy's Redevelopment Obligation Retirement Fund, from other funds transferred from each redevelopment agency, and from funds that have or wili become available through asset sales and all redevelopment operations, are insufficient to fund the payments required by paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (a) in the next six-month fiscai period, the county auditor-controller shall notify the Controller and the Department of Finance no later than 10 days from the date of that notification. Thc county auditor-controller shall verify whether the successor agency will have sufficient funds from which to service debts according to the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule and shall report the findings to the Controller. If the Controller concurs that there are insufficient funds to pay required debt service, the amount of the deficiency shall be deducted first from the amount remaining to be distributed to taxing entities pursuant to paragraph (4), and if that amount is exhausted, from amounts available for distribution for administrative costs in paragraph (3). If an agency, pursuant to the provisions of Section 33492.15, 33492.72, 33607.5, 33671.5, 33681.15, or 33685, made passthrough payment obligations subordinate to debt service payments required for enforceable obligations, funds for servicing bond debt may be deducted from the amounts for passthrough payments under paragraph (1), as provided in those sections, but only to the extent that the amounts remaining to be distributed to taxing entities pursuant to paragraph (4) and the amounts available for distribution for administrative costs in paragraph (3) have all been exhausted. (c) The county treasurer may loan any funds from the county treasury that are necessary to ensure prompt payments of redevelopment agency debts. (d) The Controller may recover the costs of audit and oversight required under this part from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund by presenting an invoice therefor to the county auditor-controller who shall set aside sufi'icient funds for and disburse the claimed amounts prior to making the next distributions to the taxing jurisdictions pursuant to Section 34188. Subject to the approval of the Director of Finance, the budget of the ❑I 96 — 37 — Ch. 5 Controller may be augmented to reflect the reimbursement, pursuant to Section 28.00 of the Budget Act. 34185. Commencing on January 16, 2012, and on each January 16 and June 1 thereafter, the county auditor-controller sha11 transfer, from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund of each successor agency into the Redevelopment Obligation Retirement Fund of that agency, an amount of property tax revenues equal to that specified in the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule for that successor agency as payable from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund subject to the limitations of Sections 34173 and 34183. 34186. Differences between actual payments and past estimated obligations on recognized obligation payment schedules must be reported in subsequent recognized obligation payment schedules and shall adjust the amount to be transferred to the Redevclopmcnt Obligation Rctircment Fund pursuant to this part. These estimates and accounts shall be subject to audit by county auditor-controllers and the Controller. 34187. Commencing January 1, 2012, whenever a recognized obligation that had been identified in the Recognized Payment Obligation Schedule is paid off or rctircd, cither through early payment or payment at maturity, the county auditor-controller shall distribute to the taxing entities, in accordance with the provisions of the Revenue and Taxatiou Code, all property tax revenues that were associated with the payment of the recognized obligation. 34188. For all distributions of property tax revenues and other moneys pursuant to this part, the distribution to each taxing entity shall be in an amount proportionate to its share of property tax revenues in the tax rate area in that fiscal year, as follows: (a) (1) For distributions from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, the share of each taxing entity shall be applied to the amount of property tax available in the Redevelopmcnt Properiy Tax Trust Fund after deducting the amount of any distributions under paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (a) of 5ection 34183. (2) For each taa;ing entity that receives passthrougji payrnents, that agency shall receive the amount of any passthrough payments identified under paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 34183, in an amount not to exceed the amount that it would receive pursuant to this section in the absence of the passthrough agreement. However, to the extent that the passthrough payments received by the taxing entiry are less than the amount that the taxing entity would receive pursuant to this section in the absence of a passthrough agreement, the taxing entity shall receive an additional payment that is equivalent to the difference between those amounts. (b) Property tax shares of local agencies shall be determined based on property tax allocation laws in effect on the date of distribution, without the revenue exchange amounts ailocated pursuant to Section 97.68 of the Revenue and Taxation Codc, and without thc properiy taxcs allocatcd pursuant to Section 97.70 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. (c) Thc total school share, including passthroughs, shall be the share of the property taxes that would have been received by school entities, as ❑i 96 Ch. 5 — 38 — defined in subdivision (� of Section 95 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, in the jurisdictional territory of the former redevelopment agency, including, but not limited tq the amounts specified in Sections 97.b8 and 97.70 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. 34188.8. For purposes of a redevelopment agency that becomes subject to this part pursuant to Section 34195, a date certain identified in this chapter shall not be subject to Section 34191, except for dates certain in Scction 34182 and reterences to "October 1, 2011," or to the "operative date of this part,". However, for purposes of those redevelopment agencies, a date certain identified in this chapter shall be appropriately modified, as necessary to reflect the appropriate fiscal year or portion of a fiscal year. CHAPTER E). EFF�CT OF THEACT ADDING THIS PART ON THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT LAW 34189. (a) Commencing on the effective date of this part, all provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law that depend on the allocation of tax increment to redevelopment agencies, including, but not limited to, Sections 33445, 33640, 33641, 33645, and subdivision (b) of Section 33670, shall be inoperative, except as those sections apply to a redevelopment agency operating pursuant to Part 1.9 (commencing with Section 34192). (b) The California Law Revision Commission shall draft a Community Redevelopment Law cleanup bill for consideration by the Legislature no later than January 1, 2013. (c) To the extent that a provision of Part 1(commencing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), and Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100) conflicts with this part, the provisions of this part shail control. Further, if a provision of Part 1(commencing with Section 33000), Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 34000), Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 34050), or Part 1.7 (commencing with Section 34100) provides an authority that the act adding this part is restricting or eliminating, the restriction and elimination provisions of the act adding this part shall control. (d) It is intended tbat the provisions of this part shall be read in a manner as to avoid duplication of paymcnts. CHAPTER %. STABILIZATION OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RL�LAT[ONS 34190. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to stabilize the labor and employment relations of redevelopment agencies and successor agencies in furtherance of and conncction with their responsibilities under the act adding this part. (b) Nothing in the act adding this part is intended to relievc any redevelopment agency of its obligations under Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 ofTitle 1 ofthe Covernment Code. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 34165, prior to its dissolution, a � 9� — 39 — Ch. 5 redevelopment agency shall retain the authority to mcet and confer over matters within the scope of representation. (c) A successor agency, as defined in Sections 34171 and 34173, shall constitute a public agency within the meaning of subdivision (c) of Section 3501 of the Government Code. (d) Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 34165, redevelopment agencies, prior to and during their winding down and dissolution, shall retain the authority to bargain over matters within the scope of representation. (e) ln recognition that a collective bargaining agreement represents an enforceable obligation, a successor agency shall become the employer of a11 employees of the redevelopment agency as of the date of the redevelopment agency's dissolution. If, pursuant to this provision, the successor agency becomes the employer of one or more employees who, as employees of the redevelopment agency, were represented by a recognized employee organization, the successor agency shall be deemed a successor employer and shall be obligated to recognize and to meet and confer with such employee organization. In addition, the successor agency shall retain the authority to bargain over matters within the scope of representation and shall be deemed to have assumed the obligations under any memorandum of understanding in effect 6etween the redevelopment agency and recognized employee organization as of the date of the redevelopment agency's dissolution. (� The Legislature finds and declares that the duties and responsibilities of local agency employer representatives under this chapter are substantially similar to the duties and responsibilities required under existing collective bargaining enforcement procedures and therefore the costs incurred by the local agency employer representatives in performing those duties and responsibilities under the act adding this part are not reimbursable as state-mandated costs. Furthermore, the Legislature also finds and declares that to the extent the act adding this part provides the funding with which to accomplish the obligations provided herein, the costs incurred by tY�e local agency employer representatives in performing those duries and responsibilities under the act adding this part are not reimbursable as state-mandated costs. (g) The transferred memorandum of understanding and the right of any employee organization representing such employees to provide representation shall continue as long as the memorandum of understanding would have been in force, pursuant to its own terms. One or more separate bargaining units shall be created in the successor agency consistent with the bargaining units that had been established in the redevelopment agency. After the expiration of the transferred memorandum of understanding, the successor agency shall continue to be subject to the provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act. (h) Individuals formerly employed by redevelopment agencies that are subsequently employed by successor agencies shall, for a minimum of two years, transfer their status and classification in the civil service system of the redevelopment agency to the successor agency and shall not be required 0 96 Ch. 5 — 40 — to requalify to perform the duties that they previously pedormed or duties substantially similar in nature and in required qualification to those that they previously performed. Any such individuals shall have the right to compete for employment under the civil service system of the successor agency. CHAPTER H. APPLICATION OF PAR2' TO FORMER PARTICIPANTS OF THE ALTERNATIVE VOLUNTARY REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 34191. (a) It is the intent of f1�e Legislature that a redevelopment agency that formerly operated pursuant to the Alternative Voluntary Redevelopment Program (Part 1.9 (commencing with Section 34192)), that becomes subject to this part pursuant to Section 34195, shall be subject to all of the requirements of this part, except that dates and deadlines shall be appropriately modified, as provided in this section, to reflect the date that the agency becomes subject to this part. (b) Except as otherwise provided by law, for purposes of a redevelopment agency that becomes subject to this part pursuant to Section 34195, the following shall apply: (1) Any referenee to "January 1, 2011," shall be construed to mean January 1 of the year preceding the year that the redevelopment agency became subject to this part, but no earlier than January 1, 2011. (2) Any reference to "October 1, 2011," or to the "operative date of this part," shall mean the date that is the equivalent to the "October 1, 2011," identified in Section 34167.5 for that redevelopment agency as determined pursuant to Section 34169.5. (3) Except as provided in paragraphs (1) and (2), any reference to a date certain shall be construed to be the date, measured from the date that the redevelopment agency became subject to this part, that is equivalent to the duration of time betwcen thc operative date of this part and the date certain identified in statute. SEC. 8. Section 97.401 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read: 97.401. Commencing October 1, 201 L, the county auditor shall make the calculations required by Section 97.4 based on the amount deposited on behalf of each former redevelopment agency into the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund pwsuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 34182 of the Health and Safery Code. The calculations required by Section 97.4 shall result in cities, counties, and special districts annually remitting to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund the same amounts they would have remitted but for the operation of Part l.8 (commencing with Section 34161) and Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code. SEC. 9. Section 98.2 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read: pi 96 — 41 — Ch. 5 98.2. For the 20ll-12 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, the computations provided for in Sections 98 and 98.1 shall be performed in a manner which recognizes that passthrougYi payments formerly required under the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1(commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 ofthe Health and 5afety Code) are continuing to be made under the authority of Part 1,85 (commencing with Section 34170) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code and those payments shali be recognized in tlte TEA calculations as though they were made under the Community Redevelopment Law. Additionally, the computations provided for in Sections 98 and 98.1 shall be perfonned in a manner that recognizes payments to a Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, established pwsuant to Section 34170.5 of the Health and Safety Code as if they were payments to a redcvelopment agency as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 33670 of the Health and Safety Code. SEC. 10. If a legal challenge to invalidate any provision of this act is successful, a redevelopment agency shall be prohibited from issuing new bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, or other obligations, whether funded, refunded, assumed, or otherwise, pursuant to Article 5(commencing with Section 33640) of Chapter 6 of Part 1 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code. SEC. 11. The sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is hercby appropriated to the Department of Finance from the General Fund for alloeation to the Treasurer, Controller, and Department of Finance for administrative costs associated with this act. The department shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the fiscal committees in each house of any allocations under this section no later than l0 days following that allocation. SEC. 12. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given ef�ect without the invalid provision or application and to this end, the provisions of this act are severable. The Legislature expressly intends that the provisions of Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code are severable from the provisions of Part 1.8 (commencing with Section 34161) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, and if Part 1.85 is held invalid, then Part 1.8 shall continue in effect. SEC. 13. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code. SEC. 14. This act shall take effect contingent on the enactment of Assembly Bill 27 ofthe 2011-12 First Extraordinary Session or Senate Bill 15 of in the 2011-12 First Extraordinary Session and only if the enacted bill adds Part 19 (commencing with Section 34192) to Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code. 0 96 Ch. 5 — 42 — SEC. 15. This act addresses the fiscal emergcncy declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation on January 20, 2011, pursuant to subdivision (� of Section 10 ofArticle IV of the California Constitution. SEC. 16. This act is a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 12 of Article IV of the Califomia Constitution, has been identifi ed as related to the budget in the Budget Bill, and shall take effect immediately. � � 96