California Education Code Section 8477

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that funds be appropriated for the minor renovation and repair of publicly owned buildings as necessary to meet state licensing standards, and for the state purchase of relocatable child care and development facilities for the purpose of providing extended day care services pursuant to this article, for lease to qualifying agencies in geographic areas with no available child care and development facilities and, as to any child care and development facility acquired by a qualifying agency with funds not including state funds, for the purpose of reimbursement of initial utility service installation costs. This section is applicable only to the proceeds from the sale of bonds allocated by the State Allocation Board pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 100020. (b) No relocatable child care and development facility owned by the state shall be placed on privately owned land except in those areas of the state where the Superintendent of Public Instruction determines there is no available space on publicly owned land and where there are no available child care and development facilities. (c) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall establish the qualifications to determine the eligibility of extended day care agencies to lease relocatable facilities under this section. (d) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall adopt rules establishing priorities for the acquisition and leasing of facilities to agencies that will most benefit children needing extended day care services. First priority shall be given to programs that are operated in school districts that have unhoused pupils, as determined under state standards established pursuant to Chapter 22 (commencing with Section 17700) of Part 10, and have developed a plan to provide extended day care services in a cost-effective manner. Each lessee shall be required to demonstrate that program operations in relocatable facilities are primarily for extended day care services which comply with cost-effective minimum program standards established by the superintendent. (e) Although primary use of relocatable facilities shall be for extended day care programs, those facilities may be used for other purposes if the following conditions are met: (1) The alternative use of the facility does not infringe upon the accessibility of extended day care programs. (2) The State Department of Education authorizes alternative use as being compatible with extended day care programs. (f) The State Allocation Board, with the advice of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, may do all of the following: (1) Establish any procedures and policies in connection with the administration of this section that it deems necessary. (2) Adopt any rules and regulations for the administration of this section requiring those procedures, forms, and information that it deems necessary. (3) Have constructed, furnished, equipped, or otherwise require whatever work is necessary to place relocatable extended day care services facilities where needed. (g) The board shall lease relocatable facilities to qualifying extended day care services 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. Neither the board nor the state shall assume any responsibility for utility services costs other than initial installation costs reimbursed under this article, and the agency shall provide adequate safeguards to protect the state`s interest in this regard. (h) The board shall require lessees to insure at their own expense for the benefit of the state, any leased relocatable facility that is the property of the state, against any risks, including liability from the use thereof, in the amounts the board deems necessary to protect the interests of the state. Neither the board nor the state shall assume any responsibility for utility services costs other than initial installation costs reimbursed under this article, and the agency shall provide adequate safeguards to protect the state`s interest in this regard. (i) No relocatable facilities shall be made available to an agency unless the agency furnishes evidence, satisfactory to the board, that the agency has no other facility available for rental, lease, or purchase in the geographic service area that is economically or otherwise feasible. (j) The board shall have prepared for its use, performance specifications for relocatable facilities and bids for their construction that can be solicited from more than one responsible bidder. The board shall from time to time solicit bids from, and award to, the lowest responsible competitive bidder, contracts for the construction or purchase of relocatable facilities that have been approved for lease to eligible extended day care services agencies. (k) If at any time the board determines that a lessee`s need for particular relocatable facilities that were made available to the lessee pursuant to this article 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. (l) If a lessee uses a particular relocatable facility for only a portion of the year, the board may enter into a second lease with a public or private party for the use of that facility for the portion of the year during which the facility would otherwise be unused, in the manner it deems to be in the best interests of the state. The lessee shall be subject to subdivisions (f) and (h).