Residential Water Use Trends and Implications for Conservation Policy

Mar 8, 2017 - Precipitation Data Suggests 2017 Will Be a Very Good Water Year for California. Fortunately, recent data suggest that the 2017 water year (October 2016 through September 2017) is very likely to be significantly better than recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3611

Residential Water Use Trends and Implications for Conservation Policy [Publication Details]

Mar 8, 2017 - For the past two years, urban water agencies in California have been submitting monthly data on residential water use to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). The monthly update covering December 2016 was recently published on the board’s website, providing a full year of data for 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3611

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget [Publication Details]

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor allocates most of the surplus toward one-time purposes, including maintaining a positive year-end balance in the state’s discretionary reserve. Under the administration’s estimates, total reserves would reach $20.5 billion at the end of 2020-21—this represents a $1.7 billion increase from the 2019-20 enacted level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4135

How CalFire is Spending Recent Forest Health Funds

Nov 15, 2018 - In conversations with CalFire, the department indicated that the latter two criteria were particularly important in their grant decision-making process given the relatively short time period available for funds to be encumbered (two years) and expended (two additional years).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3902

The 2018-19 Budget: California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA)

Feb 15, 2018 - According to the administration, CAEATFA needs this budget flexibility because the timelines for implementing the pilots are still subject to uncertainty, thereby making it difficult to estimate costs in any specific year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3755

Cap-and-Trade Extension: Issues for Legislative Oversight

Dec 12, 2017 - This is because it shifts some of the supply of allowances from earlier years to later years. Banking Has Significant Advantages, but Also Has Trade ‑offs. Some of the key advantages of banking include ( 1) l ess price volatility and ( 2) i ncentivizing some emission reduction activities in early years that are less costly than an equivalent number of reductions in later years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3719

The 2017-18 Budget: California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)

Feb 16, 2017 - The Governor ’s budget proposes $1.8  billion for CPUC in 2017 ‑18, a net increase of $120  million (7  percent) compared to estimated expenditures in the current year. This year-over-year increase is largely the result of increased costs for the California LifeLine (LifeLine) program associated with an estimated increase in caseload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3568

Improving State’s Approach to Park User Fees [Publication Details]

Jan 12, 2017 - Improving State’s Approach to Park User Fees [Publication Details] Improving State’s Approach to Park User Fees Format: HTML Description: The state park system contains nearly 280 parks, serves about 70 million visitors each year, and costs over $400 million a year to operate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3527

The 2017-18 Budget: Cap-and-Trade

Feb 13, 2017 - According to the ARB ’s estimates, the refinery regulation ($70 to $200 per ton of emission reduction) and the more stringent LCFS ($250 per ton) would be much more costly than either cap ‑and ‑trade ($25 to $85 per ton) or a carbon tax ($50 per ton).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3553

The 2018-19 Budget: Fire Recovery Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 1, 2018 - While we do not raise specific concerns about the administration’s funding requests, we recommend that the Legislature direct the administration to report at budget hearings on the proposed funding and submit formal proposals for any future budget-year funding requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3767