(a) The executive director, on behalf of the conservancy, shall, contemporaneously with the Los Angeles Unified School District completing all procedures and transfers in accordance with subdivisions (b) and (c), waive and release all the conservancy’s right, title, or interest to purchase Los Angeles Unified School District property pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 33207, and pursuant to any other statutory authority, wherever granted, to those school sites commonly referred to as the Beverly Glen Midsite School site, the property commonly referred to as the four recorded lots of the Old Ranch Road School site, the property commonly referred to as the South of Lanai Road School site, and any other school district properties located within the zone, except that the conservancy shall retain all rights to purchase the acreage parcel of the Old Ranch Road School site as set forth in this section.
(b) The exemption in subdivision (a) shall become operative if the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District, referred to in this section as the Board of Education, within two days of the effective date of this section, votes to offer to the conservancy, and within five days of the effective date of this section records in the office of the Los Angeles County Recorder, an irrevocable offer to sell to the conservancy, at the original purchase price, the Temescal Junior High School site; and records in the office of the Los Angeles County Recorder an offer of a right to purchase to the conservancy upon terms and procedures in accordance with subdivision (d), a portion of the Old Ranch Road site described as follows:
All that portion of blocks 39 and 43 lying within the Santa Monica Land and Water Company Tract M.R. 78-44/49 owned by the Los Angeles Unified School District, together with appurtenant access easements along Old Ranch Road.
(c) The exemption in subdivision (a) shall only become operative if the Board of Education, within two days of the effective date of this section, approves a resolution of intention to sell the Old Ranch Road site described in subdivision (b). The resolution to sell shall direct publication of notice of the Board of Education’s intention to sell in a newspaper of general circulation published within the Los Angeles Unified School District within 10 days of the resolution and shall cause the notice to be published on at least three occasions within a period of time of not less than 15 days. The notice shall fix a date for the opening of bids not less than 21 days after the last publication. The bids shall be opened in public in the offices of the real estate branch in accordance with the Los Angeles Unified School District’s procedure. The executive director of the conservancy shall be advised of the bid opening and location not less than seven days prior thereto. The resolution to sell and notice shall state a minimum bid price of one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) cash sale, and close of escrow to occur within 45 days of acceptance of the highest responsible bid by the Board of Education. All bids shall be in writing and accompanied by a deposit of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in cash or cashier’s check.
(d) (1) Prior to accepting any responsible bid received pursuant to subdivision (c), the Board of Education or its designee shall call for oral bids. If, upon the call for oral bidding, any person offers to purchase the property upon the terms and conditions specified in the resolution, for a price exceeding by at least 5 percent the highest written or previous oral proposal that is made by a responsible person, that higher bid shall be designated as the highest responsible bid if the oral bid is reduced to writing and signed by the offeror and accompanied by a cashier’s check or by cash in an amount not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
(2) After determining the highest responsible bidder, the Board of Education shall offer the Old Ranch Road School site described in subdivision (b) to the conservancy at the price indicated in the highest responsible bid as determined in subdivision (c) and this subdivision, but at a price not less than one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000). The offer shall be in writing and shall remain open for a period of 10 days from the date that the written offer is received by the conservancy. The executive director of the conservancy shall have the right, against all others, to gain the right to purchase the property at any time within the 10-day period at the price of the highest responsible bid by communicating to the Board of Education in writing.
(3) In the event the executive director of the conservancy exercises the right to purchase pursuant to this section, the State of California, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, shall receive a conveyance of the property from the Board of Education by quit claim deed if the State of California pays the Board of Education by warrant or by cashier’s check, the amount of the highest bid at any time within a six-month period commencing with the date of the receipt by the executive director of the conservancy of the Board of Education’s offer, as described in this subdivision.
(4) If the executive director of the conservancy does not, within the 10-day period described in this subdivision, indicate his or her intention to exercise the right to purchase the property, the Board of Education may convey the property to the highest responsible bidder. In the event the highest responsible bidder fails to complete the purchase, the Board of Education shall offer the property to the executive director of the conservancy in accordance with the procedure set forth in this subdivision for each successive responsible bid, but in no case shall the price to the conservancy be less than one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000).
(5) Should the executive director of the conservancy indicate an intention to exercise the right to purchase within the 10-day period, but fail to pay the Board of Education the purchase price by warrant of the State of California or cashier’s check within the six-month period, or the executive director of the conservancy fails to exercise the right to purchase within the 10-day period and the property is purchased by the highest responsible bidder, the executive director of the conservancy shall execute a waiver and release in accordance with subdivision (a) for the Old Ranch Road site as described in subdivision (b).
(e) (1) In the event the conservancy does not acquire the portion of the Old Ranch Road site described in subdivision (b) pursuant to the procedure set forth in this section, and the conservancy has released and waived its rights pursuant to subdivision (a), the Board of Education may offer the Old Ranch Road site for purchase to the highest responsible bidder on the same terms as determined pursuant to this section, or should the responsible bidder no longer wish to purchase the property, the Board of Education may offer the property for sale pursuant to the provisions of the Education Code governing the sale of surplus district property.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Education may adopt or approve any and all acts required by it to carry out this section and may sell to the conservancy the real property described as the Temescal Junior High School site at its original purchase price in accordance with the procedures specified in this section by an affirmative vote of five members of the Board of Education. Further, notwithstanding the provisions of the Property Acquisition Law (Part 11 (commencing with Section 15850) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), and any other provision of law, the executive director of the conservancy may take any actions that are necessary to carry out this division.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 599. Effective January 1, 2007.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018