^[PDF] Local Control Funding Formula Implementation

LCFF for County Offi ces of Education (COEs) Overview of Local Control Funding Formula for COEs 2014-15 Operations Grant Funding target Base funding of $661,495 per COE. Additional $110,249 per school district in the county.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2015/Local-Control-Funding-Formula-Implementation-031915.pdf

The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2017 - IHSS MOE Impact on Counties. The elimination of the CCI shifts significant IHSS program costs from the General Fund back to the counties ($600  million in 2017 –18 ). Legislative consideration might be given to how the state might help ease counties ’ transition to a higher share of IHSS costs as counties seek to rebalance their revenues and expenditures in light of the CCI ’s elimination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3528

^[PDF] The 2012-13 Budget: California Spending Plan

Budget No Longer Assumes Savings From the Extension of the Sales Tax to IHSS Providers. The 2010-11 budget assumed savings from the extension of the sales tax to IHSS services. Essentially, this sales tax extension would have allowed the state to draw down federal funding to offset General Fund costs in IHSS (please see the 2010-11 Spending Plan for more detail).
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/bud/spending_plan/spending-plan-091312.pdf

Home Prices Update: March 2021 [EconTax Blog]

Apr 28, 2021 - San Francisco ’s average home price is down 2.6 percent over the past year, neighboring San Mateo is up just 0.4 percent, and every other large county in the state is up at least 9 percent. San Francisco and San Mateo still have higher home prices than any of the state ’s other 56 counties.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/645

The 2018-19 Budget: The Administration’s Proposition 55 Estimates [Publication Details]

Mar 1, 2018 - Proposition 55 (2016) aimed to increase funding for Medi-Cal under a formula administered by the Department of Finance. In 2018-19, the first year of implementation of this calculation, the administration’s interpretations and estimates result in no additional funds to Medi-Cal. Two key choices lead to this result. First, the administration’s decision to subtract $3.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3765

U.S. Retail Sales: July 2020 [EconTax Blog]

Aug 14, 2020 - In addition to being a general economic indicator, U.S. retail sales can give us a rough sense of the trajectory of sales tax revenues. As noted in a recent post , we also are tracking sales tax performance with spending data from credit and debit cards.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/520

^[PDF] Overview of Public Community Mental Health Services Funding and the Mental Health Services Act

The next largest source of funding—around $2.7 billion in 2017-18— comprises local realignment revenues, which are portions of the state’s sales tax and vehicle license fee revenues that the state dedicates to counties to pay for a number of county responsibilities, including mental health services (and some substance use disorder services).
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/health/2019/Mental-Health-Services-Funding-082119.pdf

California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences

In contrast, many California cities and counties find that housing developments lead to more local costs than offsetting tax revenues. This is because these properties do not produce sales or hotel tax revenues directly and the state ’s cities and counties typically receive only a small portion of the revenue collected from the property tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx

^[PDF] LAO 1999 Budget Analysis: General Government Chapter

They are to: • Discontinue mailing tax booklets to filers who use either a tax preparer or automated software to file the previous year’s taxes. • Realize budget savings resulting from elimination of the Employee Confirmation Report.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/general_govt/gen_govt_anl99.pdf

Home Prices Update: August 2021 [EconTax Blog]

Sep 23, 2021 - All the other large counties in the state have seen growth near of above, with San Francisco ’s relatively affordable neighbors Alameda and Contra Costa seeing higher growth than most. San Joaquin county, which is increasingly becoming a bedroom community for the Bay Area, has seen growth above 30 percent.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/700