Facilities Use Requests
The Student Welcome Center at Santa Ana College School of Continuing Education is available as a public space for community groups and others.
BP 6700 Civic Center and Other Facilities Use
Reference:
Education Code Sections 82537 and 82542
Title 5 Sections 59601 et seq.
There is a Civic Center at each of the colleges and the District Office. The Civic Centers are the classrooms
and public meeting areas at each location. Use of the Civic Center shall be granted as provided by law. The
Chancellor shall establish procedures regarding the use of District property and facilities, including property
designated by the District as a Civic Center, by community groups, outside contractors, and others.
The administrative procedure shall reflect the requirements of applicable law, including Education Code
Section 82537, regarding Civic Centers. The procedures shall include reasonable rules regarding the time,
place, and manner of use of District facilities. They shall assure that persons or organizations using District
property are charged such fees as are authorized by law. Public use of District property shall not interfere
with scheduled instructional programs or other activities of the District on behalf of students.
No group or organization may use District property to unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, ancestry, national origin, military or veteran status, disability, sex (i.e., gender), gender identity,
gender expression, or sexual orientation, or the perception that a person has one or more of the foregoing
characteristics, or because a person associates with a person or group with one or more of these actual or
perceived characteristics, or on any basis prohibited by law.
Use of the District's Civic Centers will be only for the purposes described by the California Legislature in
Education Code Section 82537(a). These purposes include use by associations "formed for recreational,
educational, political, economic, artistic, or moral activities of the public school districts" in order to "engage
in supervised recreational activities" or "meet and discuss, from time to time, as they may desire, any
subjects and questions which in their judgment appertain to the educational, political, economic, artistic,
and moral interests of the citizens of the communities in which they reside" (Education Code Section
82537(a)). In granting permission to use the Civic Centers, the District will not discriminate on the basis of
viewpoint with regard to organizations engaging in expressive activities on the topics and subject matters
articulated above.
Revised: June 15, 2015 (Previously BP1330)
References Updated: April 5, 2016
Related Documents:
AR 6700 Civic Center and Other Facilities Use.pdf
BP 3900 Speech - Time Place and Manner.pdf
In-House Facilities Request Form NC.pdf
SAC Electronic Facilities Use Application 2015.pdf
Vendor Packet 2020.pdf
