Section 15820.71 - Authority to construct, renovate, equip facilities; lease-purchase; certification required(a) For the purposes of this chapter the board may finance the construction, renovation, and equipping of facilities or acquisition of equipment, or both, on a site or sites owned by, or subject to a lease or option to purchase held by, the University of California, the California State University, the California Maritime Academy, or the community college districts.(b) The board shall lease-purchase to the Regents of the University of California and lease or lease-purchase to the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Governors of the California Maritime Academy, and the community college districts, pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 81800) of Part 49 of the Education Code, any public building or facility, constructed or renovated and equipped, or any equipment purchased pursuant to this chapter. The duration of each lease or lease-purchase agreement and the amount to be paid under each lease or lease-purchase agreement shall be determined by mutual agreement of the parties. The board shall contract with the lessee for all activities required to acquire equipment or to plan, construct, renovate, and equip facilities.(c) For purposes of financing the improvements described in subdivision (a), the governing bodies shall certify to the Legislature that each project will result in reduced operating costs or increased income, or both, of these institutions and that the reduction in operating costs or the increase in income, or both, of these institutions will amortize the investment of the board over a reasonable period of time.(d) Savings in operating costs or increases in income, or both, from the improvements described in subdivision (a) shall be available to the institutions for the purposes of making the lease or lease-purchase payments to the board. In addition, these institutions, upon completion of the obligations to the board, shall use any remaining savings for further improvements in these institutions.(e) The cost of any improvement authorized by statute pursuant to this chapter shall be considered an expenditure of state or community college district funds in the fiscal year in which payments are made to the board under the terms of the lease or lease-purchase agreement.Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1457, Sec. 2.