Ed Code 81149/”Substantial Compliance”with Field Act
January 16th, 2008http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1290_cfa_20060510_121839_sen_floor.html
http://law.onecle.com/california/education/81149.html
Under current law, community college districts may acquire
and use facilities on closed military bases or purchase
offsite buildings or lease commercial buildings if a
structural engineer certifies, respectively, that the
facility is in substantial compliance with the Field Act,
or the facility meets the 1976 Uniform Building Code and is
in substantial compliance with the Field Act. In both
instances the structural engineer must submit the
certification to the DSA for a 45-day review period.
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Education Code 81149, states after structural review, “the governing board …..shall forward the report submitted to the Dept. of General services for its review.”
Assuming the recently leased Temecula building meets the above “substantial compliance” definition as an offsite building, the same “substantial compliance” definition should be immediately sought for the district owned, former APU building, located on the upper Menifee campus.
If applicable, a “substantial compliance” approval for the owned APU facility would allow immediate use of the existing fifteen classrooms for day/evening classes. The building may then be able to qualify for growth funds due to its location at MVC.
Transfer of high school evening sections to the Temecula site does not increase access. As an outreach center, the site will not receive a bump in growth funds. Enrollment projection of 800 FTES at the Temecula site translates to 200 class sections which cannot be accomplished with evening classes and non-sufficient daytime parking.
Costly political decisions which have no “net” increase in student access, are contrary to the designated mission of the CCC system.
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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Somebody in the shared goverance structure should ask if the District is planning to occupy the new Temecula facilty without State approval and what is the status of the required State approval. It’s not a secret is it?