October 22, 2001
Committee Issues New Report: Parks, Progress, and Public Policy
On January 1, 2002, recreation and park districts will get a new governing law. The Senate Local Government Committee has just released its report explaining where the new statute came from and what it does.
Jointly authored by all six Committee members, Senate Bill 707 is the first thorough revision of the districts’ principal act since 1957. The old law was incomplete, inaccurate, and archaic. A 17-member Working Group wrote the new law to spell out the policies, powers, procedures that govern California’s 91 recreation and park districts.
Parks, Progress, and Public Policy documents the efforts to write the new Recreation and Park District Law. The Committee’s 140-page report reprints the actual text and provides authoritative commentary on each section of the new statute. A detailed "source table" and a "disposition table" tell reviewers where the new law’s language came from and where substance of the old law went.
Useful to district administrators, district board members, researchers, and legal advisors, Parks, Progress, and Public Policy is available from:
Senate Publications
1020 N Street, Room B-53
Sacramento CA 95814
(916) 327-2155
Single copies cost $4.57, including shipping and sales tax. Make checks payable to Senate Rules Committee and include stock number 1112-S when ordering.
