The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget [Publication Details]

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor allocates most of the surplus toward one-time purposes, including maintaining a positive year-end balance in the state’s discretionary reserve. Under the administration’s estimates, total reserves would reach $20.5 billion at the end of 2020-21—this represents a $1.7 billion increase from the 2019-20 enacted level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4135

The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Transportation Budget

Jan 18, 2017 - For DMV, the Governor ’s budget proposes total expenditures of $1.1  billion, which is about the same as the current-year estimated level. About 95  percent of all DMV expenditures would come from the MVA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3533

A Review of Caltrans’ Vehicle Insurance Costs

Dec 5, 2017 - Premiums Have More Than Tripled Over Last Three Years. Figure  4 shows Caltrans ’ premiums each year over the last decade. For the first seven years, premiums fluctuated around $ 5  m illion. Then, premiums nearly doubled in 2015 ‑16, and then increased by nearly two ‑thirds in 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3721

Review of the Draft 2020 High-Speed Rail Business Plan

Mar 13, 2020 - Accordingly, under HSRA ’s plan, the Legislature will have far fewer viable options next year to change the near ‑term plan for project, which it might want to do if costs rise, funding is lower than anticipated, or legislative priorities change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4202

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Transportation

Feb 14, 2017 - The proposal is the first year of a two-year effort to build charging stations at 30 locations as stated in the Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan. Caltrans plans to request funding for the r emaining 22 locations as part of the 2018-19 budget process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3560

The 2019-20 Budget: Transportation Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 26, 2019 - The Governor's budget provides a total of $23.5 billion from various fund sources for all transportation departments and programs in 2019-20. This is a net increase of $1.4 billion, or 6 percent, over estimated current-year expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3948

Misleading Caltrans Budget Weakens Legislative Oversight [Publication Details]

Feb 24, 2005 - The budget displays transportation funds inconsistently, making it impossible to determine Caltrans’ total expenditures in a given year or to accurately compare different years. Legislative oversight is severely hampered by these inconsistent displays. We recommend the enactment of legislation requiring transportation expenditures to be displayed according to standard budget display requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1267

The 2014-15 Budget: Capital Outlay Support Program Review [Publication Details]

May 14, 2014 - While we find that Caltrans has made minor improvements to the COS program in recent years, the program generally lacks accountability and is not operating efficiently. Specifically, we find that the COS program currently (1) lacks performance data to adequately measure program effectiveness, (2) is experiencing a substantial decline in workload that will result in significant overstaffing starting in 2014-15, and (3) allows for limited legislative and external oversight.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3015

Governor’s Transportation Proposal [Publication Details]

Feb 18, 2004 - Governor’s Transportation Proposal [Publication Details] HTML Description: In both the mid-year cuts submitted in November 2003 and in the 2004-05 Governor's Budget, the administration has proposed to use a number of transportation funds to provide about $2 billion in one-time General Fund aid over the current and budget years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1102

Funding for Transportation Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - In addition, as part of his Strategic Growth Plan, the Governor proposes to provide $12 billion in general obligation bond funding and $14 billion in revenue bond funding for state transportation over the next ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1435