33608
. (a) All acts and proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken
under color of law by a charter city meeting the criteria of
subdivision (g) and its redevelopment agency in a county with a
population over 4,000,000 with respect to a reimbursement agreement
executed pursuant to Section 33445 of the Health and Safety Code
dated July 7, 1986, and as amended as of July 13, 1987, are hereby
confirmed, validated, and declared legally effective to the extent
the agreement could have been authorized by the Legislature
initially, except as to limitations imposed by the California and
United States Constitutions. The validation provided by this section
shall be the only determination necessary to satisfy the requirement
of subdivision (e) of Section 33675 of the Health and Safety Code and
those provisions shall not apply to the agreement otherwise. The
Legislature finds and declares that this section is consistent with
existing law and does not conflict with either Article XIII B or
Section 16 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(b) If the commencement of reimbursement of the principal amount
of indebtedness of the agency under an agreement referred to in
subdivision (a), or any predecessor agreement executed pursuant to
Section 33445 of the Health and Safety Code, is delayed beyond 10
years after the date of execution of the agreement for any reason,
the agency and the city may amend or enforce the reimbursement
agreement, or any predecessor thereto, to provide for the payment of
interest. The interest may accrue, as to reimbursement for any
particular property or improvement, from the date of acquisition,
construction, or installation thereof until the date of the
reimbursement agreement and thereafter, until payment of the
principal and interest by the agency. The interest shall be at the
rate specified in the reimbursement agreement, not to exceed the rate
of interest earned by the treasurer of the city on investments of
the city's pooled funds. Subject to that limitation, interest on the
indebtedness may be calculated pursuant to any generally accepted
method of computation, including, without limitation, any method
which allows the compounding of interest monthly or at other
appropriate intervals.
(c) Reimbursements for any indebtedness under the reimbursement
agreement referred to in subdivision (a) shall be (1) first allocated
for the funding requirements of the fire and police retirement fund
of the city and (2) then deposited into the Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund of the agency. However, this section shall not be
construed to authorize any reimbursement of indebtedness which is not
permissive under Section 16 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution.
(d) The reimbursement agreement shall not be amended without the
approval of the Legislature, by statute, and the obligation created
by the reimbursement agreement shall terminate on December 31, 2014.
(e) In addition to any amounts provided to the city's fire and
police retirement system under the reimbursement agreement, to the
extent permitted by law, the city shall undertake, by ordinance, to
contribute additional moneys from its general fund annually and
transfer assets (including, without limitation, income producing
assets such as parking garages) as necessary and actuarially
appropriate to satisfy its fire and police retirement fund
obligation. When this obligation has been actuarily funded, all
assets contributed pursuant to this section shall revert to the city.
(f) The obligations created by the reimbursement agreement
specified in subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be existing
obligations for purposes of subdivision (d) of Section 33334.6
incurred by the agency to finance a redevelopment project existing
on, and created prior to, January 1, 1986. The statement of existing
obligations required by subdivision (f) of Section 33334.6 shall be
deemed amended to include the obligations created by this
reimbursement agreement. The agency shall make deposits into the Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund of the agency in accordance with the
reimbursement agreement. These deposits shall be the only
obligations that the agency shall have to deposit money in the Low
and Moderate Income Housing Fund under subdivision (a) of Section
33334.2 or Section 33334.6, with respect to the project area subject
to the reimbursement agreement, notwithstanding any other provision
of law.
(g) This section applies to any charter city meeting all of the
following criteria:
(1) The city's retirement system is part of the city's charter and
was approved by the voters before July 1, 1978.
(2) The city did not levy a separate ad valorem property tax rate
to support the retirement system in the 1983-84 fiscal year.
(3) The retirement system provides for a cost-of-living adjustment
which is indexed to a consumer price index and does not limit the
annual increases which may be paid to members after their retirement.
(4) The retirement system is not currently available to newly
hired fire and police employees and will not be available in the
future.
(5) Before January 1, 1985, the city unsuccessfully litigated a
limit to the cost-of-living adjustment which may be paid to members
of the retirement system after their retirement.
(6) The governing body of the city has, by resolution, elected to
make this section applicable to it. This election shall be final and
binding and may not be revoked for any reason.
(h) "Agency," as used in this section, includes a community
development commission exercising the powers of a redevelopment
agency pursuant to Section 34141.