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While we do not raise specific co ncerns about the administration’s funding requests, we recommend that the Legislature direct the administration to report at budget hearings on the proposed funding and submit form al proposals for any future budget-year funding requests.
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Essentially all of these proposals were rejected earlier this year by the prior Legislature. The Governor also proposes to transfer vehicle weight fee revenues to the General Fund. This would achieve an estimated $850 million in budget solutions in 2010‑11 and $727 million in 2011‑12 by reimbursing the General Fund with weight fee revenues for certain transportation bond debt service costs, and also loaning a portion of the weight fee revenues to the General Fund.
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Our findings indicate that: (1) a formula with a higher weight on sales and lowe r weights on property and payroll promotes job growth to some extent; (2) with most states’ formulas now based only on sales, the old formula that used property and payroll could p ut some California producers at a competitive disadvantage; and (3) allowing firms to choose their formula every year arbitrarily favors some firms over others.
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May 25, 2010. Format: May 25, 2010 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee # 4 on State Administration Format: May 25, 2010 - Presented to Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Format: May 25, 2010 - Presented to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.
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Warren Furutani, Chair Format: May 4, 2010 - In this video, Jennifer Kuhn discusses the new LAO report "Year-One Survey: Update on School District Finance and Flexibility." Format: Year-One Survey: Update on School District Finance and Flexibility May 4, 2010 - We surveyed public school districts in California to see how they are responding to various state and federal developments.
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In this report, we review the Governor’s budget and policy proposals to address the deficit, recap the enacted special session changes to the program in both the current y ear and the budget year, and offer our recommendations for additional budget-year actions, including long-term changes to the program.
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Taken as a whole, our reform package would relieve school districts and community colleges of performing hund reds of activities that provide little value to students while providing them with adequate and timely compensation for the activities still required of them.
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Many of this year's budget solutions will require significant time for departments to implement. Therefore, the Legislature and the Governor need to agree to a framework to solve much of the budget problem by the end of March. ( Video of Mac Taylor's press conference ) Format:
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In this report, we examine a number of n ew programs and schools that have been approved in the last few years to determine the efficacy of the state’s approval process. We conclude that there are several structural chang es that are needed to improve the approval process including (a) measuring supply and demand in major fields, (b) identifying the extent to
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