DEPT. OF FINANCE v. COM'N ON STATE MANDATES

No. C037645.

122 Cal.Rptr.2d 447 (2002)

100 Cal.App.4th 243

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. COMMISSION ON STATE MANDATES, Defendant and Respondent. Kern High School District et al., Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

Review Granted October 2, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Andrea Lynn Hoch, Louis R. Mauro and Leslie R. Lopez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Camille Shelton, Sacramento, for Defendant and Respondent.

Jo Anne Sawyerknoll, Sacramento, and Jose A. Gonzales, San Diego, for Real Party in Interest and Respondent San Diego Unified School District.

No appearance by Real Parties in Interest and Respondents Kern High School District and County of Santa Clara.


DAVIS, Acting P.J.

The question in this appeal is whether two state statutes—requiring local school site councils and advisory committees for certain educational programs to prepare and post an agenda for their meetings and to provide for public comment on agenda items—constitute a reimbursable state mandate under article XIII B, section 6 of California's Constitution. We agree with the trial court that these statutes specify a "higher level of service...

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