LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Department of Transportation (2660)

Caltrans ’ total support in 2008 –09 will be provided by a variety of sources, including $4.1 billion (29 percent) from the State Highway Account, $3.9 billion (28 percent) from federal funds, $1.5 billion (11 percent) from the Proposition 42 transfer, and $3.5 billion (25 percent) from Proposition 1B funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/transportation/trans_anl08005.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Prop 98 Education Programs: Background

In tandem with his proposed cuts, the Governor proposes to allow school districts and community colleges to transfer funding among categorical programs, as well as from categorical programs to their general fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/education/ed_anl09002.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: General Government: California Emergency Management Agency

This transfer would improve CalEMA ’s ability to track and manage deployed fire and rescue resources during a fire. Recommend Rejection of Plans For New CalEMA Facility New Facility Proposed Again. The budget proposes a $1.9 million increase in General Fund expenditures in 2009 –10 for preliminary plans for the construction of a replacement facility for the Southern Region Emergency Operations Center at the Joint Forces Training Center in Los Alamitos.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/general_govt/gen_anl09003006.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Resources: State Water Project Staffing Request Not Fully Justified

The department proposes to transfer 16 water flow monitoring stations from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to the department when a current contract with the federal government ends in 2009.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/resources/res_anl09004005.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: In–Home Supportive Services (5180)

The original rationale for the SOC buyout program was that it allowed IHSS recipients to transfer from the Residual program to the other IHSS programs without increasing their SOC obligation, essentially holding them harmless.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/ss/ss_anl09003004.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: Citizens Fair Districts Act (Version 4)

The plan must minimize the splitting of counties, cities, and “communities of interest” into multiple districts. When drawing boundaries, the commission could not consider information related to political party affiliations and other specified matters, except as required by federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070604.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: Pet Animal Protection Act

It would also require animal rescue groups and other private shelters that adopt out animals transferred from local animal shelters to transfer to the public shelters 10  percent of the revenue generated from adoption activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070767.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: The Victims’ Rights Protection Act of 2008: Implementation and Enforcement Tools for Victims, Prosecutors, and Judges

The state, counties, and cities employ several thousand attorneys who specialize in the prosecution of criminal offenses. In general, pay and benefits for the attorneys are determined by the legislative bodies of their respective employers—including the Legislature, county boards of supervisors, and city councils—as a part of those bodies’ responsibilities to budget public funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070928.aspx

2008 Initiative Analysis: Save Our Schools and Public Services Act

Schools, community colleges, cities, special districts, and counties use property tax revenues to provide services. State law authorizes cities and counties to create redevelopment agencies to mitigate blight in urban sections of their communities that they call “redevelopment project areas.”
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2008/080111.aspx

2008 Initiative Analysis: The California Public Safety and Law Enforcement Act

The database would also include any officer deemed to be "troubled or at-risk " by the state, county, or city agencies that employ them. Requires Specified Law Enforcement Training. The measure requires state, county, and city law enforcement agencies to train officers in "diffusing situations and deescalating violence " and the use of alternatives to lethal force.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2008/080761.aspx