Augmentation for DOJ legal services

May 29, 2013 - CDCR Has Exceeded Legal Services Budget in Recent Years. In switching to a billable hours model for financing DOJ legal service, the Legislature hoped that CDCR would be more efficient in its use of these services than it had been in pri or years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/770

Long-term offenders in county jails

May 29, 2013 - Historically, such offenders served about two years in state prison. However,  some of these offenders can be sentenced for much lengthier periods of time. Governor ’s Proposal. The administration proposes to allow counties to  send longer-term inmates that have served at least three years of their sentence to state prison in exchange for housing an equivalent number of prison inmates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/768

Formula for probation incentive grants

May 29, 2013 - It is also worth noting that the proposed allocation methodology would result in SB 678 creating a net cost for th e state in years when the total grant amount to counties exceeded the estimated state savings.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/767

Cash management trailer bill language

May 24, 2013 - Second, we recommend that the Legislature specify how any funds remaining at the end of a fiscal year in excess of a court ’s 1 percent reserve cap can be expended. Current law and the proposed language are silent on whether, for example, those funds are to be redistributed among the 58 trial courts or retained in the Trial Court Trust Fund for other purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/763

Recommend assessment of IT project in addition to reconciliation and legal efforts

May 20, 2013 - It was the understanding of our office that SCO would aim to move forward with the eight-point strategy through the 2013-14 budget year and possibly beyond. The 2013-14 May Revision Proposal The Governor ’s 2013-14 May Revision proposes $14.6 million ($11.9 General Fund) in one-time funding and 40 one-year limited term positions for reconciliation, suspension, and legal activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/761

Analysis of the Governor's CalWORKs Early Engagement Proposal

May 18, 2013 - Specifically, if the proposal were implemented without modification, costs in 2014-15 as estimated by the administration would be $13.3 million for robust appraisal, $25 million for family stabilization, and $95.8 million for enhanced subsidized employment (assuming an average of 8,250 positions per month and refle cting offsetting grant savings), for a total of $134 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/757

Sonoma Developmental Center Intermediate Care Facility Recertification

May 18, 2013 - The PIP es tablishes a structure for independent analysis and monitoring of Sonoma DC over the next year in order to improve its services to consumers. As a condition of the PIP, DDS will con tract with an Independent Consultative Review Expert (ICRE) to conduct a root cause analysis and establish an action plan to bring all of Sonoma DC ’s ICF-DD units  back into compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/760

Coordinated Care Initiative (CCI) May Revision Update

May 18, 2013 - During each year of the demonstration, a single statewide savings target will be applied to both the Medicare and Medi-Cal components of the joint capitated rate. For each demonstr ation plan, the state and CMS will apply county- and plan-specific adjustments to the statewide savings target to account for the risk profile of enrollees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/758

Resource Family Approval Project: request for delayed implementation

May 17, 2013 - Pursuant to Chapter 464, the implementation date for the pilot project was to continue t hrough the end of 2010-11, or through the end of the third fiscal year following the date that funds were made available for implementation (whichever date is later).
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/755

Need to determine contractual parameters for "financially sound" funding plan

May 17, 2013 - Section 22001 of California's Education Code declares that the purpose of the California State Teachers' Retirement System's (CalSTRS) defined benefit plan is "to provide a financially sound plan for the retirement" of the state's public school teachers and administrators.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/756