April state sales taxes $302 million above projections...gain may be temporary

May 5, 2011 - “Big Three ” State Taxes Now $2.5 Billion Above Forecast for the Fiscal Year to Date . Net personal and corporate income taxes are running $2.319 billion above the administration ’s projections for the fiscal year to date, as we described yesterday .
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/411

April income tax payments $237 million above projections, per FTB preliminary tally

May 4, 2011 - Net General Fund income tax collecti ons for the fiscal year to date are $4.5 billion (10.4 percent) above similar collections for the prior fiscal year.  As noted above, this data  does not yet reflect sales and use tax collection trends for the year to date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/410

Webcast: How Small Is Too Small? An Analysis of School District Consolidation [Publication Details]

May 2, 2011 - An Analysis of School District Consolidation [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2473

Diagnosis Related Group Payment System

May 2, 2011 - Diagnosis Related Group Payment System Diagnosis Related Group Payment System Program: Department of Health Care Services Finding or Recommendation: Recommend approval of $860,000 total funds ($344,000 General Fund) and seven two-year limited-term positions in the Safety Net Financing Division.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/409

How Small Is Too Small? An Analysis of School District Consolidation [Publication Details]

May 2, 2011 - An Analysis of School District Consolidation [Publication Details] Video Description: In this report, we investigate the competing claims made in support and opposition of combining smaller school districts into larger districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2472

Statutory requirement for submittal of AB 32 zero-based budget by April 1, 2011

Apr 28, 2011 - Funding for AB 32 implementation in the budget year was approved by the Legislature earlier this year in the budget process, presumably based on the assumption that the Administrat ion would make a good-faith effort to comply with the statutory requirement (and be on time) and that the Legislature would make any necessary adjustments to the AB 32 budgets afte r having evaluated the ZBB report.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/406

April income tax collections on track to be $300 million above projections

Apr 28, 2011 - Through the end of March 2011 , General Fund agency cash tax revenues were running approximately $2 billion above year-to-date projections for 2010-11. In the next few weeks, the state's budget forecasters will have to consider how to incorporate these higher year-to-date tax collections into final state revenue projections for 2010-11, as well as 2011-12.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/407

April Finance Letter: Advanced energy storage

Apr 27, 2011 - Last year, the Governor requested three positions for workload associated with AES.  The Legislature instead approved  one two-year limited term position.   AES Legislation Was Enacted  in 2010.   Subsequent to the Legislature 's evaluation of the CPUC 's 2010-11 budget request related to AES,  Chapter 469, Statutes of 2010 (AB 2514, Skinner), was enacted to provide  Legislature 's  policy direction in the area of AES.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/403

Davis-Dolwig cost allocation study

Apr 27, 2011 - LAO Policy Concerns and Recommendations Made in Past Years. We   have raised concerns in the past (again, see “ Funding Recreation at the State Water Project ,” as well as our analyses of the 2009-10 and 2010-2011 Governor’s budgets) over DWR's practice of using SCRB to calculate the state’s share of SWP costs. 
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/401

Salton Sea Restoration Funding (Reappropriations and Reimbursement Expenditure Authority)

Apr 27, 2011 - The majority of benefits of any restoration plan are likely to be realized only after the completion of the restoration many years from now, and as such, a temporary delay is unl ikely to have significant negative  consequences on fish and bird species.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/399