^[PDF] Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

State law generally requires cities and counties to update their housing elements every eight years. The fourth housing element planning cycle, which began sometime between 2006 and 2008 for most cities and counties, recently ended.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3605/plan-for-housing-030817.pdf

^[PDF] Over of the 2017 Transportation Funding Package

To be eligible to receive SB 1 funding for streets and roads maintenance and rehabilitation, the legislation requires cities and counties to spend at least as much on transportation from their unrestricted funds as they spent from 2009-10 through 2011-12, on average.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3688/2017-transportation-package-060817.pdf

Cracks in the Local Fiscal Foundation

13: Property Tax Allocation 14: Property Tax Allocation 15: (Untitled) 16: Summary of Local Fiscal Control 17: Second Crack: Not Conducive to Broad Economic Growth 18: Instead, Local Fiscal System Encourages Cities and Counties to 19: What Fiscal Incentive Do Cities Face?
https://lao.ca.gov/sections/local_govt/cracks_presentation/fslide1.html

Strengths of Local Fiscal Foundation

13: Property Tax Allocation 14: Property Tax Allocation 15: (Untitled) 16: Summary of Local Fiscal Control 17: Second Crack: Not Conducive to Broad Economic Growth 18: Instead, Local Fiscal System Encourages Cities and Counties to 19: What Fiscal Incentive Do Cities Face?
https://lao.ca.gov/sections/local_govt/cracks_presentation/fslide8.html

^[PDF] Air Quality Improvement: An Alternative Strategy

. • Recognizing "Ownership" of the Environment. Second, IBR explicitly recognizes society's "ownership" of the environment by placing the burden of proof for damage to the environment on the polluter.
https://lao.ca.gov/1990/reports/477_0290_air_quality_improvement_an_alternative_strategy.pdf

SPECIAL DISTRICTS

Some residents receive most of their services from their city or county government, not from special districts. Other residents receive many public services from "independent " special districts (those with independently elected governing boards) and "dependent " special districts (those districts in which the city council or board of supervisors serves as the governing board).
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/010195_calguide/cglgov3.html

WATER

These include using markets to promote water transfers, building new facilities, encouraging water conservation, and increas ing water prices to manage demand. All of these approaches have been used to date in California, some extensively (such as building new facilities) and others to a lesser degree (s uch as demand management and water transfers).
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/010195_calguide/cgres2.html

^[PDF] State Information Technology: An Update

. ✔ Issuance of Executive Order W-120-95, which created a temporary Governor’s Office of Information Technology and transferred to it responsibilities which had been assigned to the Office of Technology, pending legislation to establish a new, permanent information technology oversight authority (April 13, 1995). ✔ Transfer of project management responsibility
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/012396_it_update/pb12396.pdf

Proposed Settlement Agreement of CTA v. Gould

Also new in this agreement is a proposal to transfer unspent monies in the State School Site Utilization Fund (SSSUF) to the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund. Under current law, school districts with unused school sites are assessed a nonuse payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/060696_cta_v_gould/pb060696.html

California Update, April 1996

If the FTB cannot locate assets through the automated system, FTB staff will use manual search methods to identify assets, such as locating banks in the area of the obligated pa rent's home or place of employment, utilizing credit report information, calling licensing boards for address information, or checking county property ownership rolls.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/cup0496.html