SB 1489: Local Government Omnibus Act of 2022.

(1)Existing law, including the Professional Land Surveyors Act, the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, the Subdivision Map Act, provisions relating to official maps of counties and cities, and provisions relating to maps of certain special assessment districts, prescribe requirements for the identification, storage, access, and preservation of maps.

This bill would revise requirements for storage, access, and preservation of maps, in connection with the above-described laws, to authorize alternative methods by which maps may be identified, kept safe and reproducible, and to which they may be referred, and would generally eliminate the requirement that they be fastened and stored in books.

(2)Existing law sets forth requirements for the passage of city ordinances. Existing law requires ordinances to be read in full either at the time of introduction or passage except when, after reading the title, further reading is waived by regular motion adopted by majority vote of the legislative body.

This bill would provide that a reading of the title or ordinance is not required if the title is included on the published agenda and a copy of the full ordinance is made available to the public online and in print at the meeting prior to the introduction or passage.

(3)Existing law generally requires specified county officers to be elected by the people. Existing law authorizes the boards of supervisors of specified counties to provide, by ordinance, that the public administrator be appointed by the board. Existing law also authorizes the boards of supervisors of specified counties, by ordinance, to appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator and public guardian, and to, at any time, separate the consolidated offices of the district attorney and public administrator, as specified.

This bill would apply those provisions to the County of Mono.

(4)Existing law regulates the investment of public funds by local agencies, as defined. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as specified, that has money in a sinking fund or in its treasury not required for immediate needs to invest the money as it deems wise or expedient in certain securities and financial instruments, subject to various requirements. Existing law authorizes local agencies, as specified, to invest in medium-term notes, which are defined as corporate and depository institution debt securities with a maximum remaining maturity of 5 years or less, issued by specified corporations or by depository institutions.

This bill would require an investments term or remaining maturity to be measured from the settlement date to final maturity. The bill would also prohibit the purchase of a security with a forward settlement date exceeding 45 days from the time of investment.

(5)Existing law, applicable to counties, cities, and other agencies, authorizes the treasurer or chief fiscal officer to render a quarterly report regarding specified matters in connection with the deposit of public funds to the chief executive officer, the internal auditor, and the legislative body of the local agency. Existing law requires this report to be submitted within 30 days following the end of the quarter covered by the report.

This bill would extend the time within which the report is to be submitted to 45 days following the end of the quarter covered by the report.

(6)Existing law creates the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank within the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development and commits to it the administration of various programs. Existing law requires the bank, not later than November 1 of each year, to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature for the preceding fiscal year, as specified, containing information on the banks activities relating to the infrastructure bank fund and programs.

This bill would require the report described above to be submitted not later than January 1 each year. The bill would require the report to be additionally submitted to the Strategic Growth Council, the Speaker of the Assembly, the President pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Legislative Analysts Office. The bill would require this report to further contain a specified report prepared by the program manager of the California Small Business Finance Center and a specified report regarding Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund Program activity. The bill would make conforming changes to provisions relating to the other reports.

(7)Existing law prohibits a local agency from taking certain actions relating to a housing development project if the project meets certain conditions. Under existing law, one of prohibited actions includes denying a project located on an existing legal parcel solely on the basis that the lot area of the proposed lot does not meet the local agencys requirements for minimum lot size.

This bill would instead prohibit the local agency from denying a project proposed to be developed on an existing legal parcel solely on the basis that the lot area of the existing parcel does not meet the local agencys requirements for minimum lot size.

(8)Existing law, the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, prohibits, among other things, an affected county or an affected city from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that would have any of specified effects, except as provided. Existing law provides that the act only applies to a housing development project that submits a preliminary application pursuant to a specified section before January 1, 2030.

This bill would instead state that the act applies to a housing development project that submits a preliminary application pursuant to a specified section before January 1, 2030.

(9)Existing law requires provisions to be included in any invitation for bid and in any contract documents to permit the substitution of securities for any moneys withheld by a public agency to ensure performance under a contract, except as provided. Existing law requires, at the request and expense of the contractor, securities equivalent to the amount withheld to be deposited with the public agency. Existing law sets forth other procedures and requirements related to the retention of moneys by the public agency.

This bill would define the term contractor for these purposes to include a contractor performing a public works contract, as defined in specified law, and any person or entity that would qualify as a contractor under specified law.

(10)Existing law, the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county to enter into 10-year contracts with owners of land devoted to agricultural use, whereby the owners agree to continue using the property for that purpose, and the city or county agrees to value the land accordingly for purposes of property taxation. Existing law authorizes the parties to a Williamson Act contract to mutually agree to rescind a contract under the act in order to simultaneously enter into an open-space easement for a certain period of years.

This bill would authorize the parties to a Williamson Act contract to mutually agree to rescind the contract in order to simultaneously enter into a solar-use easement, as specified. The bill would require the city or county to charge the property owner a rescission fee based upon the fair market value of the property at the time of the rescission, as specified, and to transmit the fee to the Controller.

(11)Existing law sets forth requirements relating to the ad valorem taxation of aircraft in the state. Existing law requires owners and operators of private and public airports to provide, within 15 days following the lien date of each year, the county assessor in which the airport is situated with a statement containing specified information regarding aircraft using the airport as a base. Existing law requires county assessors, not later than July 1 of each year, to provide the Division of Aeronautics within the California Department of Transportation with a statement containing the information provided by the owners and operators and the assessed value of the aircraft. Existing law requires the county assessor to transmit, on the 2nd Monday in July of each year, a statistical statement containing specified information.

This bill would instead require the county assessor to submit the statements regarding aircrafts not later than the deadline to submit the required statistical statement.

(12)This bill would make other nonsubstantive and technical changes.

(13)By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.

(14)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Mono.

(15)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 reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.