The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget proposal includes $18.4  million in one ‑time General Fund to reimburse certain local governments in Los Angeles County for costs related to the Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - Other funding sources reported by local agencies include citations and fees, special taxes, and federal grants. For example, in 2020, voters in Marin County passed a special parcel tax to fund the creation of a joint powers authority focused on ï¬re protection and prevention, including defensible  space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The remaining $200  million would be allocated to the state ’s 61 local health jurisdictions (LHJs) (58 counties and 3 cities), with funding allocated based in part on each LHJ ’s population share, level of poverty, and racial/ethnic make ‑up.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

Preparing for Rising Seas: How the State Can Help Support Local Coastal Adaptation Efforts

Dec 10, 2019 - To the degree local property tax revenues drop, this also could affect the state budget because the California Constitution requires that losses in certain local property tax revenues used to support local schools be backfilled by the state ’s General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4121

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The Governor ’s budget includes nearly $3  billion in reductions, the largest of which is withdrawing a discretionary principal payment on state ’s unemployment insurance loan (which otherwise is paid by employers ’ payroll taxes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 Budget: Pesticide Enforcement

May 5, 2022 - This authority would apply specifically for “priority investigations ” that involve multiple counties or a person who is the subject of an investigation in multiple counties. Priority investigations include pesticide incidents that cause serious impacts such as death or illness; contamination of drinking water, air, or land; animal and wildlife mortality; or property damage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4592

The 2023-24 Budget: CalRecycle’s Zero Waste Plan Proposal

Feb 28, 2023 - CalRecycle administers and provides oversight of the state ’s waste handling and recycling programs, which largely are managed at the local level by cities and counties. CalRecycle also implements several statewide programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4719

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These trends will be even more severe in some inland counties. For example, in Fresno County, the historical trends of five days of extreme heat per year are projected to increase to 29 days annually between 2035 and 2064 and 43 days annually between 2070 and 2099.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - For example, in 2017, the Legislature enacted Chapter  5 (SB  1, Beall), which increased fuel taxes and vehicle fees to support transportation-related infrastructure. More recently, the Legislature has appropriated billions of dollars from the General Fund and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to support a wide range of infrastructure, including for water conveyance and storage, energy transmission, electric-vehicle charging, and transportation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

The 2018-19 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Mar 28, 2018 - Figure  1 shows that from 2012 through 2017 the number of counties where ACP has been detected increased from 9 to 26, or by 188  percent, and the number of counties with an HLB infected tree grew from one to three.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3793