^[PDF] Re-Envisioning County Offices of Education: A Study of Their Mission and Funding

Small County Community Schools Have Higher Per-Student Costs Than Large Schools. Despite the complications noted above, the data suggest that COEs serving a small number of students at their county community schools typically spend much more per student than larger county community schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3547/reenvision-coes-020617.pdf

^[PDF] Measuring CalWORKs Performance

A fourth measure—the percentage of CalWORKs participants with earnings sufficient to receive the maximum benefit from the federal earned income tax credit—was added later. In order to receive incentive funding from the Pay for Performance program, counties would either have to make a minimum level of improvement on a given performance measure or rank in the top 20 percent of counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3702/measuring-CalWORKs-090617.pdf

^[PDF] Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Businesses that would expand in a high-unemployment or high-poverty city or county automatically move on to the second phase of the evaluation process. (These areas have poverty or unemployment rates that are at least 150 percent of the statewide Figure 2 California Competes Tax Credit Evaluation Factors The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3709/california-competes-tax-credit-103117.pdf

^[PDF] An Overview of the 1991-92 Governor's Budget

State taxes on alcoholic beverages and automo- biles would be increased and dedicated to counties to assist them with these or other responsibilities. The budget also funds a portion of the increased costs of operating the University of California (UC), the California State University, and the Community Colleges by imposing a 20 percent student fee increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/1991/012391_Bud_Overview_91-92.pdf

^[PDF] Strategies for Addressing The State's Budgetary Imbalance

Forexample, the Governor's Budgetproposes to shift to the counties the existingstate responsibilities for fundinglocal mental health and public health programs. To cover these increased county costs, the budget also proposes to increase state vehicle license fees and allocate the revenue to the counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/1991/reports/402_0291_strategies_4_addressing_st_budgetary_imbalance.pdf

^[PDF] California's Child Support Enforcement Program

The effect on the counties, however, is less clear. On the whole, the program has yielded net savings to the counties in past years, but this has not necessarily been true for all counties. Furthermore, even in those counties that made money overall, their spending "at the margin" may not have a return large enough to cover these costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/1992/reports/ca_child_support_enforcement_program_550_0292.pdf

^[PDF] Restructuring Government in California

The Legislature tackled such restructuring in a major way in 1991-92 with the realignment of various health and social services programs between the state and the counties. "Process" Restructuring. There can also be restructuring in the way that governments operate-the processes that they use to implement 104 Part V: Restructuring California Government programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/1993/reports/restructuring_gov_in_cal_225_0293.pdf

^[PDF] State Spending Plan for 1993-94: The 1993 Budget Act and Related Legislation

These sales tax funds would be allocated to cities and counties, generally in proportion to their property tax losses. 31 Major Features of the 1993 Budget Plan Vehicle License Fee Allocations. Chapter 68 increases Vehicle Li- cense Fee (VLF) allocations on a one-time basis to cities ($90 million) and counties ($40 million) in proportion to their property tax losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/1993/spending_plan_73_0993.pdf

The Federal Crime Bill

The funds will be allocated to the states on the basis of their proportion of population, general tax effort, relative per capita income, and labor force employment c ompared to the nation as a whole.
https://lao.ca.gov/1994/pb092794.html

^[PDF] The Federal Crime Bill: What Will it Mean for California?

The funds will be allocated to the states on the basis of their proportion of population, general tax effort, rela- tive per capita income, and labor force employment compared to the nation as a whole.
https://lao.ca.gov/1994/reports/federal_crime_bill_271_0994.pdf