2002 Budget Analysis: P&I, Major Expenditure Proposals in the 2002-03 Budget

Proposition  98 establishes a minimum funding level that the state must provide for public schools and community colleges each year. K-12 education receives about 90  percent of total Proposition  98 funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/2002_pandi/pi_part_4b_anl02.html

2002 Budget Analysis: P&I, Reorganizing California's Energy-Related Activities

However, at the end of calendar year 2002 CERS will be prohibited under current law from buying additional electricity on the spot market. This is because it was assumed when CERS was set up that the utilities would hav e returned to financial health and, thus, be able to resume purchasing electricity themselves by the end of 2002.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/2002_pandi/pi_part_5b_energy_anl02.html

LAO Highlights of the 2002-03 Analysis and Perspectives and Issues

We recommend that a planned loan of $100 million from PTA to the TCRF be reduced in order to avoid the projected shortfall. ( Analysis, pages A-22 through A-25 .) Ongoing Funding for Stormwater Management Needs Justification The budget requests $23.4 million for Caltrans to manage stormwater runoff.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/anl02_press_release.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay, Overview

On the other hand, the figure also shows that if (1) the Governor's proposed $30  billion in school bonds were approved over the next three election cycles, (2) the $2.8  billion in park and voter equipment bonds on the March  2002 ballot were approved, and (3) these new bonds were sold off rapidly, the DSR would rise modestly from its current level to just over 5  percent by 2007-08.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/cap_outlay/co_01_ov_anl02.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay, Funding Higher Education Capital Outlay

Year-Round Operation The Legislature has indicated its interest in CSU and UC operating their facilities year round in order to reduce the need to construct new instructional facilities. Progress CSU and UC have made in implementing year-round operation is discussed in the "Education " chapter of this Analysis .
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/cap_outlay/co_04_cc_funding_highered_anl02.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay, University of California (6440)

The primary financial benefit of year-round operation is that it reduces the need to construct new instructional space. If UC proposes new instructional facilities to the Legislature based on any limit on summer enrollment short of full campus capacity, it is not using year-round operation at its full potential.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/cap_outlay/co_14_6440_anl02.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay, Military Department (8940)

According to the proposal from the prior year, "the end goal of the Master Plan phase is an automated 20-year Master Plan Report that provides specific objective recommendations for which facilities to build, renovate, expand. . . " However, this report has not been completed.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/cap_outlay/co_17_8940_anl02.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Judiciary and Criminal Justice, Overview

In order for California to receive a $50  million augmentation, the federal fiscal year 2002-03 appropriation would have to increase by $275  million, the largest single increase since the program's inception.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/crim_justice/cj_1_ov_anl02.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Judiciary and Criminal Justice, Trial Court Funding (0450)

Third, based upon our review of the number of court filings in the past two years, we could find no reason to believe that additional resources will be needed for caseload growth in the budget year. Accor ding to the council, in 1998-99 and 1999-00, the latest years for which data are available, court filings were about the same.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/crim_justice/cj_2_0450_anl02.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Judiciary and Criminal Justice, Department of Justice (0820)

The division estimates that for most license applications, it takes 25 hours or less to complete the background investigations. Some license s, most notably those for suppliers of equipment and resources for casinos, may take up to 120 hours to complete.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/crim_justice/cj_3_0820_anl02.htm