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California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
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Public Contract Code - PCC |
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Division 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
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Part 2. CONTRACTING BY STATE AGENCIES |
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Chapter 2. State Acquisition of Goods and Services |
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ARTICLE 3. Competitive Bidding and Other Acquisition Procedures |
Section 10321.
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(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that fairs are a valuable community resource and recognizes that local businesses and local communities make valuable contributions to fairs that include direct and indirect support of fair programs. The Legislature further finds and declares that local businesses often provide opportunity purchases to local fairs that, for similar things available through the state purchasing program, may be purchased locally at a price equivalent to or less than that available through the state purchasing program.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Food and Agriculture shall develop criteria to be applied for opportunity purchases that are made by district agricultural associations, county and citrus fruit fairs, and the California Exposition and State Fair, individually or cooperatively.
(3) As used in this subdivision, opportunity purchases means purchases made locally, either individually or cooperatively, at a price equal to or less than the price available through the state purchasing program on or off state contract.
(b) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that district agricultural associations and county and citrus fruit fairs often do not have large, full-time staffs, and consequently the generally applicable expenditure reporting requirements contained in the State Administrative Manual (SAM) can represent an unreasonable paperwork burden upon those associations and fairs.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture may develop, in consultation with the Department of General Services, an alternative expenditure reporting procedure from the State Administrative Manual applicable to district agricultural associations and county and citrus fruit fairs with annual reportable expenditures of not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000). This procedure, at a minimum, shall maintain an audit trail and protect the ability of state auditors to confirm the proper use of state funds.