2004-05 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Perspectives on State Revenues

Of this total, 0.25  percent is deposited into county transportation funds, while the remaining 1  percent is allocated to city and county governments for their general purposes. Optional Local Rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/2004_pandi/pi_part_3_anl04.htm

2004-05 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Another Property Tax Shift?

The administration's proposal is not, therefore, a budget "solution " in any real sense: it is simply a transfer of fiscal problems from one level of government to another. Because of these significant policy and practical concerns, we recommend the Legislature reject the administration's proposal to use local taxes to remedy the state's fiscal problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/2004_pandi/pi_part_5a_proptaxshift_anl04.htm

2004-05 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Better Care Reduces Health Care Costs

We discuss these problems in the shaded box on the next page, and later in this analysis suggest ways to address these problems in order to facilitate the transfer of certain aged and disabled persons to managed care.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/2004_pandi/pi_part_5d_healthcarecosts_anl04.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Department of Water Resources

The law also allows a local reclamation district to voluntarily transfer its obligation to maintain any flood control structure to the state if the local distr ict declares that it no longer desires to operate and maintain the structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/Resources/res_12_3860_anl04.htm

^[PDF] LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay Chapter

The prison sys- tem also includes 16 community correctional facilities (it is planned that this number will be reduced to 10 by July 2004) operated by private firms, cities, and counties under contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/cap_outlay/co_anl04.pdf

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Elimination of Inspector General Not Justified

The Governor's budget proposes to eliminate the OIG for a General Fund savings of $2.8  million and to transfer selected oversight functions, and six positions to the YACA Secretary. The Governor also proposes to augment the YACA budget by $630,000 to fund these posi tions.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/crim_justice/cj_03_cc_oig_anl04.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Office of Criminal Justice Planning Elimination: Update

Finally, the reorganization plan should examine alternative future uses of the transferred federal funds to ensure that they are used to fund the most cost-effective programs. Some of OCJP's federally funded programs that the interim plan proposes to transfer have not been evaluated and, therefore, it is unknown whether they are effective.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/crim_justice/cj_05_cc_ocjp_anl04.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Proposition 98 Budget Priorities

The budget also prov ides school districts and community college districts greater fiscal and programmatic flexibility by transferring $2.4  billion in categorical funding into revenue limits and community college apportionments.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/education/ed_02_cc_prop98_anl04.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: K-12 Introduction

In addition, the Governor proposes to transfer $2  billion in categorical programs into revenue limits. The two largest categorical programs, special education and K-3 class size reduction, would remain separate programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/education/ed_03_k12intro_anl04.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Governor's Categorical Consolidation Proposal

At a time when the state and federal accountability programs are pressuring schools and districts to invest in their teachers' ability to meet student needs, transferring to revenue limits the state-funded categorical programs targeted at improving teacher quality may send a contradictory message to districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/education/ed_04_cat_consolidation_anl04.htm