Cal Facts 2006 State-Local Finance

Cities receive over 40 percent of their revenues from various user charges. Cities use these funds to pay for electric, water, and other municipal services. Over one-third of city revenues come from local taxes, the largest of which is the sales tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/cal_facts/2006_calfacts_state_local.htm

^[PDF] Questions and Answers: California's First Retiree Health Valuation

School districts, community college districts, cities, counties, and special districts all are beginning to report unfunded liabilities under the new accounting rules. Based on information known to date, we estimate that the unfunded aggregate retiree health liabilities of all of these local governments will be far in excess of the state’s own liability.
https://lao.ca.gov/2007/ret_health_val/ret_health_val_050907.pdf

^[PDF] 1947 Budget Analysis: Franchise Tax Oommissioner

We therefore recommend that in reorganizing the administrative control of (1) the bank and corporation franchise tax; (2) corpora- tion income tax, and (3) the personal income tax, that consideration be given at the same time to the possibility of administering other taxes now handled by the Board of Equalization which can be transferred by statute.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1947/24_franchise_1947.pdf

^[PDF] 1949 Budget Analysis: DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

It now seems unlikely that the tidelands will be returned to state ownership by the Federal Government and consequently all these activities which depended on the funds provided by the State Lands Act Fund become General Fund charges.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1949/19_resources_1949.pdf

^[PDF] 1950 Budget Analysis: Department of Professional and Vocational Standards

In 1939 the bureau was transferred to the Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, and its functions taken over by a board composed of five members. The board has a technical staff of 17 employees to assist in carrying out the provisions of the laws pertaining to examinations, licensing and regulation of approximately 68,000 nurses licensed under the laws of the State. - 422- Department of Professional and Vocational .
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1950/20_pv_standards_1950.pdf

^[PDF] 1950 Budget Analysis: INDEX

Table of Contents _________ '-_____ ~ ____ '-_________________________________ xxix Tax Assessment Bureau (Equalization) _-'_'_-'-' ___ _' __________ ~ ______________ 213 Tax Base (Letter Transmittal) __________________________________________ xiii Tax Collection Division (Controller) _____________________________________ 197 Tax Board, Franchise _____ '-_________________________
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1950/42_index_1950.pdf

^[PDF] 1951 Budget Analysis: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Nevertheless, in the interests of sound government organization, we believe the Legislature should give consideration to the transfer of the division to the Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, which has primary responsibility for the licensing and regulation of business and professions.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1951/06_agriculture_1951.pdf

^[PDF] 1951 Budget Analysis: CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL

This problem has been accentuated by the rapid conversion of what were yesterday peaceful county roads into traffic laden arterials daily carrying suburbanites from their mushrooming new homes in the "bedroom" suburban areas - 251 --'- Highway Patrol into the cities to work.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1951/10_highway_1951.pdf

^[PDF] 1954 Budget Analysis: MISCELLANEOUS

It should be emphasized that ownership of vehicles by a central auto- motive pool and responsibility on the part of the pool for maintenance of the vehicles in no way affects the use of these vehicles in meeting agency needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1954/38_misc_1954.pdf

^[PDF] 1957 Budget Analysis: General Administration

These people, who will be engineers themselves, will then contact the various schools throughout the country, and will also do off-campus recruiting in the various eastern and midwestern cities. Since the Personnel Board has recently eliminated the necessity for graduates of an accredited engi- neering college to take a written examination, the recruiters in the field will be empowered to interview the interested applicants and hire them immediately.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1957/06_general_admin_1957.pdf