California Government Code 8878.100 – Funds shall be distributed by the State Architect in the following …
Funds shall be distributed by the State Architect in the following manner:
(a) Upon receipt of an application by a local government for a grant pursuant to this article, the office or the State Architect may propose improvements to the project which will meet regional needs in a cost-effective manner. These improvements may include, but need not be limited to, structural strengthening, hardening of communication equipment, providing emergency power equipment, and other capital improvements which can be demonstrated as part of an emergency response plan which has a description of the critical facilities needed to support emergency response. The office, the State Architect, and the applicant may agree to include these capital improvements in the grant.
Terms Used In California Government Code 8878.100
- Commission: means the Seismic Safety Commission. See California Government Code 8878.52
- Local government: means any city, county, city and county, or special district. See California Government Code 8878.52
- office: means the Office of Emergency Services. See California Government Code 8878.52
- Project: means a program of work to retrofit, reconstruct, repair, replace, or relocate, for local government-owned facilities only, a building, facility, or both, which is owned by any city, county, city and county, or special district and which is included in an application for a grant of funds. See California Government Code 8878.52
- Retrofit: means to either strengthen the structure of a building or facility, or to provide the means necessary to reduce the seismic force level experienced by a building or facility during an earthquake, so as to significantly reduce hazards to life and safety while concomitantly providing for the substantially safe egress of occupants during and immediately after such an earthquake. See California Government Code 8878.52
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
- State Architect: means the Office of the State Architect. See California Government Code 8878.52
(b) In coordination with the Seismic Safety Commission and the office, and with the input of the potentially eligible local governments, the State Architect, consistent with Section 8878.90, shall establish a priority list of the types of potentially eligible local government buildings and facilities which are eligible to receive a state grant pursuant to this article.
(c) After completion of the priority list, the State Architect shall present this list of potentially eligible local government buildings and facilities to the Department of Finance for its review and consideration of whether to recommend to the Governor to include this list in the Budget Bill or other legislative proposal. The Legislature may review and appropriate funds available under this bond act for specific projects on the list which it deems appropriate.
(d) The State Architect shall allocate funds to local governments for the seismic retrofit of buildings or facilities based upon projects and appropriations approved in the Budget Bill or some other bill by the Legislature as provided in this section. Payments shall be made on a progress basis.
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Sec. 220. (AB 1317) Effective September 26, 2013. Operative July 1, 2013, by Sec. 543 of Ch. 352. Note: This section was added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 23, and approved in Prop. 122 on June 5, 1990.)