The 2017-18 Budget: Governor's Gann Limit Proposal [Publication Details]

Mar 2, 2017 - Under the State Constitution, state tax revenues in excess of the Prop 4 (1979) state appropriations limit, or Gann Limit, must be split between taxpayer rebates and additional school spending. The Governor now proposes a new calculation methodology that creates $22 billion in additional state spending capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3596

The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Mar 1, 2017 - The 2016-17 Budget Act included $25  million for the activation of a new infill facility at RJD in San Diego based on an assumption that the facility would be activated on August 1, 2016. The department indicates that, due to construction delays, the activation of the infill facility did not occur until December 12, 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3595

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of Special Education “Disconnect”

Mar 1, 2017 - As in 2013 ‑14, roughly ten SELPAs had sufficient local property tax revenue to cover their full statutory levels and were not initially prorated downward these years. Situation Further Complicated in 2013 ‑14 and 2014 ‑15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3598

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - In general, the more significant year-over-year changes in General Fund support for these programs are in part due to various funding shifts that have occurred over the last several years. These funding shifts result in General Fund increases and decreases that are not necessarily representative of broader trends in caseloads and services costs in these programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576

The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 28, 2017 - This is a net decrease of $63  million (or 14  percent) from the estimated current-year spending level. This year-over-year decrease in spending is mainly explained by (1)  an $89  million decrease in spending from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund —which receives revenue from cap-and-trade allowance auctions —reflecting a shift of these funds
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3591

The 2017-18 Budget: California State Payroll System

Feb 28, 2017 - October 25, 2012 —The SCO issues a second cure notice to the system integrator, SAP, requiring SAP to increase personnel on the project, reschedule project milestones, and stabilize the software so that Pilot  2 and Waves  3, 4, and 5 may go forward, among other requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3590

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Proposal to Strengthen Information Security

Feb 28, 2017 - This is consistent with legislation passed in 2015 requiring no fewer than 35 assessments be completed each year. (While CDT has long required departments to perform security assessments every two years to determine their vulnerabilities, these assessments have not been performed consistently.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3594

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - Governor ’s Proposal Full-Year Cost of January 2017 SSP COLA.  The budget includes $73  million from the General Fund for a full year of funding for the COLA increase to the state ’s SSP portion of the grant, which became effective January 1, 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/3

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - Cal-Learn funding is used to provide intensive case management for individuals enrolled in Cal-Learn —a component of the CalWORKs program that encourages pregnant and parenting teens to complete high school or an equivalent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/1

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - We have reviewed the average hours per case calculation for 2015-16, which serves as the basis for the current-year and budget-year projections, in light of actual hours per case data available to date and do not raise any concerns at this time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/2