10307. (Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260.)

(a) As used in this section:

(1) “Board” means the State Allocation Board.

(2) “Lessee” means a child care and development or preschool contracting agency to whom the board has leased a relocatable facility pursuant to this section.

(b) The board, with the advice of the department, may do all of the following:

(1) Establish any qualifications that it deems will best serve the purposes of this section for determining the eligibility of child care and development or preschool contracting agencies to lease relocatable facilities under this section.

(2) Establish any procedures and policies in connection with the administration of this section that it deems necessary.

(3) Adopt any rules and regulations for the administration of this section requiring such procedure, forms, and information that it may deem necessary.

(4) Have constructed, furnished, equipped, or otherwise require whatever work is necessary to place relocatable child care and development and preschool facilities where needed.

(5) Own, have maintained, and lease relocatable classrooms to qualifying child care and development and preschool contracting agencies.

(c) The board shall lease relocatable facilities to qualifying child care and development and preschool contracting agencies and shall charge rent of one dollar ($1) per year. The board shall require lessees to undertake all necessary maintenance, repairs, renewal, and replacement to ensure that a project is at all times kept in good repair, working order, and condition. All costs incurred for this purpose shall be borne by the lessee.

(d) The board shall require lessees to insure at their own expense for the benefit of the state, any leased relocatable facility which is the property of the state, against any risks, including liability from the use thereof, in the amounts the board may deem necessary to protect the interest of the state.

(e) The board shall have authority to adopt rules establishing priorities for the acquisition and leasing of facilities to contracting agencies which will most benefit children needing child care and development or preschool programs. The board shall require each lessee to demonstrate that relocatable facilities are utilized solely for operation of child care and development or preschool programs.

(f) No relocatable facilities shall be made available to a contracting agency unless the agency furnishes evidence, satisfactory to the board, that the contracting agency has no other facility available for rental, lease, or purchase in the geographic service area that is economically or otherwise feasible.

(h) If at any time the board determines that a lessee’s need for particular relocatable facilities which were made available to the lessee pursuant to this chapter has ceased, the board may take possession of the relocatable facilities and may lease them to other eligible contracting agencies or, if there is no longer a need for the relocatable facilities, the board may dispose of them to public or private parties in the manner it deems to be in the best interests of the state.

(i) Any revenue which is derived from a lease or other disposition of the relocatable facilities pursuant to this section is continuously appropriated to the board for the purposes of this section to fund the purchase of other relocatable facilities for child care and development or preschool programs.