Countywide Charter School Petitions [Publication Details]

Jun 4, 2013 - Countywide Charter School Petitions [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/2791

May income tax collections, to date, are above Governor's projections

May 30, 2013 - Over the last nine years, the re have been no years in which the year-over-year growth rate of estimated payments declined so much between April and June. (In 2011 —the closest example during this time period —June estimated payments were up 20.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, compared to a
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/771

Drug interdiction program

May 29, 2013 - Further Detail We recommend reducing the administration ’s drug interdiction proposal from $6.6 million General Fund in 2013-14 ($18.5 million annually upon full implementation) to $3 million annually on a three-year limited-term basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/765

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