The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - State Aims to Reduce Reliance on Costly Group Home Foster Care Placements While foster children living in family settings outnumber foster children living in group homes by approximately 9  to  1, total spending (all funds) is split roughly equally between the two groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3511/3

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency [Publication Details]

Sep 30, 2016 - Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency [Publication Details] Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency Format: HTML Description: Due to a variety of factors, the state's Unemployment Insurance (UI) trust fund exhausted its reserves in 2009, requiring the state to take on loans to continue the payment of benefits to unemployed workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3503

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - In particular, the Governor proposed an optional deposit into the state ’s rainy day fund to fill it to its constitutional maximum level. After fulfilling constitutional obligations for spending on schools and debt, the Governor also allocated about $ 1  b illion in discretionary resources to other spending proposals, mostly one time in nature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/2

The 2016-17 Budget: Child Welfare Services--New System

Feb 25, 2016 - The existing system is out of compliance with state and federal requirements. The CWS-NS project is intended to bring the system into compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, make the system easier to use for CWS workers, result in enhanced data reliability and availability, allow user mobility, and automate system interfaces with other state partners to enable data sharing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3369

California Community Colleges: Interim Evaluation of Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program

Dec 19, 2017 - In at least one discipline (dental hygiene), schools in the state already appear to be producing sufficient numbers of graduates to meet or exceed employer demand. Most Approved Programs Are in Workforce Areas Not Requiring Bachelor ’s Degrees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3722

Administration proposes to end use of authorizing limited term position authority in budget.

May 28, 2015 - The state ’s existing policies related to limited term positions and appointments are based on statute and past interpretations of the state ’s civil service system issued by the State Personnel Board and the courts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/856

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - April 2016 state revenues fell short of projections. As a result, relative to the Governor ’s January budget proposal, the May Revision reflected a net $1.9  billion lower revenue estimate across 2014 –15 , 2015 –16 , and 2016 –17 combined.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/2

Proposal to pay down state mandates backlog

May 15, 2014 - Further Detail Background State Reimbursement Required for Mandates on Local Governments. Proposition 4 (1979) requires the state to reimburse local governments (cities, counties, special districts, schools, and community colleges) for new programs or services that the state requires them to provide (known as “state mandates ”).
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/807

Administration’s Cap-and-Trade Report Provides New Information, Raises Issues For Consideration

Apr 15, 2016 - With respect to costs, grant programs are a one-time state cost, while lo an programs provide funding that is repaid to the state over time. Furthermore, the amount of GHG reduction achieved by state spending can vary depending on whether it was provided as a loan or grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3445