^[PDF] MAY 1996 UPDATE

Public Safety Has Been Highest Local Funding Priority The recession of the early 1990s, combined with the shift of more than $2.5 billion annually in property taxes to schools, has reduced the available revenues for California’s 58 counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/cup0596.pdf

California Update, November 1996

A large portion of these payments will be accrued back to 1995-96, thereby increasing the revenue totals for that year. The remaining increasesomewhat more than $300  millionrepresents the underlying year-to-date gain in 1996-97 revenue totals.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/nov_96_calupdate.html

^[PDF] Policy Brief Class Size Reduction

Local administra- program is around $770 per pupil, tors and school board members have on average, this year. The cost would more information about specific local go down to about the amount in- needs than do policymakers in cluded in the budget next year if the Sacramento.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/021297_class_size/class_size_297.pdf

^[PDF] Overview of the 1997-98 May Revision Budget Brief

For the second straight year, the improving California economy has produced major upward revisions to state tax revenues. Along with major
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/051997_may_revision/pb051997_may_revision.pdf

Major Features of the 1997 California Budget

These funds will pay for facilities requested for the 1996-97 school year that were not previously f unded. The budget also provides one-time funds for deferred maintenance, educational technology (digital high school), and creation of new child care facilities. 1997-98 Baseline Increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/082297_bud_major_features/8_97_major_features_of_the_97_california_budget.html

^[PDF] SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF THE 1997 BUDGET ACT 1997-98 FISCAL YEAR

Statewide efforts to modify computer systems to accommodate the Year 2000 change. 3. Year 2000 Status Reports. The DOIT shall provide the Legislature, by July 15, 1997, and quarterly thereafter, commencing with October 15, 1997, a report as to the status of the state’s Year 2000 computer application conversion effort.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/082997_sup_report/1997_Supplemental_Report.pdf

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF THE 1997 BUDGET ACT, Part I

Statewide efforts to modify computer systems to accommodate the Year 2000 change. 3. Year 2000 Status Reports. The DOIT shall provide the Legislature, by July  15, 1997, and quarterly thereafter, commencing with October  15, 1997, a report as to the status of the state's Year 2000 computer application conversion effort.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/082997_sup_report/1997_Supplemental_Report1.html

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF THE 1997 BUDGET ACT, Part III

In order to adequately assess the future ongoing needs for outreach programs at these schools, it is further the intent of the Legislature that the UC submit a report, which inclu des the demographic characteristics, of the number of applicants, admissions enrollments, and attrition rates for the last three school years, for each of the UC medical and law sc hools.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/082997_sup_report/1997_Supplemental_Report3.html

^[PDF] LAO Report Restoring Coho Salmon In California

Restoration Could Take Years. Restoring the coho will require the state to take a broad-based approach to coho habitat restoration, monitoring, and management and could take many years. The challenges to coho restoration include the size of the affected area, the amount of area in private ownership, and the variety of influences on coho habitat.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/101497_coho_salmon/101497_coho_salmon.pdf

^[PDF] An LAO Report Colorado River Water: Challenges for California

The Secretary of the Interior has directed Califor- nia to come up with a plan to live within its entitlement of 4.4 million acre-feet of water per year. LAO Findings Competing Water Demands Limit Reallocation to Califor- nia.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/101697_colorado_river/101697_colorado_river.pdf