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The Governor also proposes to transfer vehicle weight fee revenues to the General Fund. This would achieve an estimated $850 million in budget solutions in 2010‑11 and $727 million in 2011‑12 by reimbursing the General Fund with weight fee revenues for certain transportation bond debt service costs, and also loaning a portion of the weight fee revenues to the General Fund.
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This program is found to be an inefficient means of promoting home ownership, and options are offered for improving it, including capping the deduction amount or replacing it with a targeted tax credit.
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The 2012-13 Budget: Overview of the May Revision - The 2012-13 Budget: Overview of the May Revision [Video]

Moreover, the administration 's $1.4 billion estimate for the amount of General Fund benefit that may be achieved in 2012-13 from transferring former RDAs ' liquid cash assets to school districts is highly uncertain.
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Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? [Video]

This includes cities, the county, special districts, and schools and community college districts. Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF). This is a countywide multi-purpose fund originally created  to provide funding for schools For many reasons, the system of distributing these revenues has become very complex.
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The International Olympic Committee will choose the winning city in September 2017. Bo th the state and the City of Los Angeles are already planning in case the Games return to Southern California. Earlier this year, the Legislature passed a bill to provide state sup port for Los Angeles' bid.
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Report Implementation Update: Reforming Transfer From CCC to CSU Format: HTML February 2, 2015 - This report updates our 2012 progress report on transfer reform. We found that since 2012, both CCC and CSU have made substantial progress in meeting the legislation’s goals.
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Although the Governor's proposal to allow 60-day fund transfers among ac counts would provide some cash relief, we recommend the Legislature instead consolidate CTC's revenues into a single, combined account.
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Based on this analysis, we recommend specific steps to help maintain the park system, such as transferring the ownership of some state parks to local governmen ts, eliminating the use of peace officers for certain park tasks, allowing private companies to operate some state parks, and increasing park user fees.
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We estimate that the sale of buildings would result in one-time r evenue to the state of between $600 million and $1.4 billion, but that annual leasing costs would eventually exceed ownership costs by approximately $200 million.
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These filings—occ urring just months after the City of Vallejo completed its three year Chapter 9 process—have raised questions about the use of Chapter 9 in California. In this report, we answer so me of the common questions about the Chapter 9 process for California local governments such as: which local governments are allowed to file for bankruptcy protections and under wh at
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