Wildland Firefighters’ Employee Compensation [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - Wildland Firefighters’ Employee Compensation [Publication Details] HTML Description: A contract signed between the state and firefighters in the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will result in significantly increased employee compensation costs and additional staffing resources for the department.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1442

Year-Round Operations at UC and CSU [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - Operating University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) campuses on a year-round schedule-which more fully utilizes the summer term-is an efficient strategy for serving additional students with existing facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1397

Budget Proposal Understates Mandate Costs [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - We find that the administration’s proposal does not provide sufficient resources to carry out its plan for 2006-07 and that the state likely will face a current-year mandate deficiency of about $140 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1430

Funding for Transportation Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - In addition, as part of his Strategic Growth Plan, the Governor proposes to provide $12 billion in general obligation bond funding and $14 billion in revenue bond funding for state transportation over the next ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1435

Proposition 98 Priorities [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - If approved, this increase would widen the state’s structural spending gap in 2007-08 and beyond, and raises the issue of whether the state would be able to sustain the budget’s proposed overall level of General Fund expenditures in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1448

New K-12 Categorical Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - We recommend rejecting these seven proposals because they: (1) do not address the major fiscal issues facing the state or school districts; (2) take a step backwards for categorical reform; (3) have basic policy flaws; and (4) contain virtually no planning, reporting, evaluation, or accountability components.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1449

School District Financial Condition [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - These included low general purpose reserves, internal borrowing from self-insurance funds, and falling state revenues due to declining enrollment. We also discussed the long-term challenge created by new accounting requirements on retiree health benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1450

K-12 and Community College Mandates [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - We find that the amount proposed in the budget bill for mandates falls short of fully funding ongoing mandate costs; the mandates claims process could be streamlined and simplified by reimbursing districts on a per-pupil basis for all K-12 mandates; recent action by the Commission on State Mandates (CSM) on the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) mandate raises issues about
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1451

Future Federal Funding Shortfall for Healthy Families [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - Future uncertainty about reauthorization of federal funding and the eventual exhaustion of unspent federal funds pose a risk of significant future increases in state costs for the Healthy Families Program (HFP). We present alternatives to hold down increases in overall HFP costs and to obtain additional financial support for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1418

After School Programs and Proposition 49 [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - As approved by voters in 2002, Proposition 49 requires the state to increase funding for the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program beginning in 2006-07.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1452