1999-00 Budget, Perspectives and Issues: Rethinking Property Tax Shift Relief

Because we lack a method for measuring relative city or special district fiscal conditions, we were not able to perform a similar review for these governments. In the case of citie s, however, we note that the distribution of net losses does not reflect the wealth of city residents.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part5c/part5c_shifting-gears_pandi99.html

LAO Analysis of the 1999-00 Budget Bill Capital Outlay Departmental 1 Issues

The 1999-00 budget proposes $16.5  million for ". . . grants to cities, counties, or special districts . . . " as indicated in Figure  2. Figure 2
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/cap_outlay/cap_outlay_depts1_anl99.html

LAO Analysis of the 1999-00 Budget Bill Criminal Justice Departmental Issues 3

Because developing physical evidence through laboratory analysis is part of the responsibility of local governments for investigating and prosecuting crimes, we believe that the c osts for these services should be borne by the counties and cities.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/crim_justice/crim_justice_depts3_anl99.html

LAO Analysis of the 1999-00 Budget Bill Health and Social Services Crosscutting Issues

The budget includes $44.4  million from the General Fund to satisfy this federal audit exception, and indicates that the state will no longer fund these services because there is no state authority to do so , and because responsibility for these services was transferred to counties in the realignment of mental health services.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/health_ss/health_ss_crosscutting_anl99.html

2000 Budget Perspectives: State Revenues

It shows that revenues and transfers are projected to total $65.2 bill ion in the current year, an 11.2 percent increase from 1998-99. In 2000-01, revenues and transfers are forecast to increase by 4.7 percent compared to 1999-00, reaching $68.2  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/2000_pandi/part3/part3_pandi00.html

^[PDF] 2000 Budget Perspectives and Issues: An Overview State Expenditures

The LPSF was established by Proposition 172 (November 1993), which made permanent a temporary half-cent increase in the state sales tax and dedi- cated the revenue to the LPSF for allocation by the Legislature to cities and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/2000_pandi/part4a/pandi_pt4a_2000.pdf

2000 Budget Perspectives: Overview of State Expenditures

The LPSF was established by Proposition 172 (Novembe r 1993), which made permanent a temporary half-cent increase in the state sales tax and dedicated the revenue to the LPSF for allocation by the Legislature to cities and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/2000_pandi/part4a/part4a_pandi00.html

2000 Budget Analysis: Cap Outlay DPR/DMH/CDC

The district agrees to accept ownership of the sewer system upon completion of the project. The department and district agree on cost sharing for operation, maintenance, and future replacement or repairs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/cap_outlay/co_depts1_anl00.htm

2000 Budget Analysis: CJ DOJ 0820

At the time this Analysi s was prepared, the task force grants from the current-year appropriation had not been awarded and the $500,000 appropriation for database development has not been transferred to D OJ.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/crim_justice/cj_11_DOJ_0820_anl00.htm

2000 Budget Analysis: CJ CDC 5240

Research into experimental efforts in Boston and Kansas City suggests that such strategies discourage offenders from carrying guns and reduce the level of gun violence in the targe ted community. The CDC is already participating in a similar effort in central Los Angeles known as the CeaseFire Project and a related "community policing" effort is being planned for the Sacramento area.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/crim_justice/cj_4_CDC_5240_anl00.htm