There is hereby appropriated from the Contingent Fund to the Employment Development Department an amount sufficient to augment an appropriation available from the Unemployment Trust Fund pursuant to Section 1528.5 for acquisition of real property, or for construction and equipment of state public works projects, in order to provide for payment of such public work projects for which an appropriation is available where such project cannot be undertaken because the estimate exceeds the amount available or bids received are in excess of the estimate, and upon such augmentation, contracts may be awarded therefor, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14275 of the Government Code.
Allocations may be made for acquisition of real property in augmentation of appropriations made for acquisition of real property and which cannot be acquired because acquisition costs are in excess of the amounts provided in the appropriation.
Allocations may be made for purchase of equipment in augmentation of appropriations made from which purchase of equipment is authorized.
Expenditures shall be pursuant to executive orders of the Director of Finance upon approval of the State Public Works Board.
(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 941.)