Governor’s May Revision proposals

May 23, 2011 - The Governor ’s revised budget continues to move the project ahead as planned, meaning the Legislature will likely be asked to appropriate several billions of state bond funds and federal funds next year in the 2012-13 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/440

Request for $748,000 to fund positions to work on implementing federal health insurance reform

May 23, 2011 - The Legislature approved all of the 71 requested positions in budget actions earlier this year. However, it made a modification to the request for the 17 positions to implement hea lth insurance reform and approved these on a limited-term basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/424

Proposed Los Angeles Welfare Automation Suspension

May 23, 2011 - Additionally, there is a request for limited fundin g in the budget year to plan for alternative solutions when the current LEADER maintenance and operations contract ends and for closeout costs for the LRS project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/436

Transfer Healthy Families Program to Department of Health Care Services

May 22, 2011 - According to the administration, the net partial-year statewide impact of this proposal is a General Fund savings of $31.2 million in 2011-12 with ongoing full-year savings of $7 5 million in the following years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/434

Safety and Security in State Hospitals

May 22, 2011 - We recommend that the Legislature approve the 78.0 positions but  reduce funding by $1.1 million General Fund (25 percent salary savings rate)  to more accurately  reflect  the rate at which the positions are likely to be filled in the budget year.    
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/433

State Water Project staffing for regulatory compliance, safety, and maintenance

May 20, 2011 - Thirty-Three Future-Year Positions Should Be Rejected. We continue to recommend rejection of the 33 positions requested for future years. The department states that they do not possess the capacity to hire and train all 123 new positi ons in a single year and thus will staff up over the course of three years.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/326

Proposed elimination of the Salton Sea Restoration Council

May 20, 2011 - (We note, however, that restoration efforts are anticipated to take place over 75 years.) Council Was Created in 2010 Legislation.   The Salton Sea Restoration Council was created by  Chapter 303,  Statutes of 2010 (SB 51, Ducheny),  following several years of discussion over the governance structure that would guide any Salton Sea restoration efforts.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/418

Funding for public safety technology modernization project

May 20, 2011 - It is premature to approve the budget-year funding until a new Special Project Report has been submitted to the California Technology Agency reflecting a rescoping of the project that is currently under development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/417

Staffing in Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR)

May 20, 2011 - During the  2010-11 budget year, the Legislature  approved a request by the  Administration for  17 positions that were intended  to enhance the regulatory program activities of DOGGR. However, these positions have only recently been filled, and some do not have start dates until June 2011.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/421

Request for 10 positions to implement 33 percent Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)

May 20, 2011 - The proposal provides that  the need to permit at least three  new major transmission lines  in the next few years as the basis for the request for four permanent transmission-related positions.  While this process is likely to be time consuming (and subject to litigation), the siting-related  work nonetheless will be completed at some finite point in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/422