Addressing California’s Convenience Zone Recycling Center Closures

May 16, 2016 - These changes could reduce unexpected processing payment expenditures from the BCRF, but they would transfer the risk and associated costs to beverage manufacturers. Requiring Manufacturers to Buy Materials Could Help in Long Run.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3466

Review of High-Speed Rail Draft 2016 Business Plan

Mar 17, 2016 - Specifically, the IOS North would connect Diridon Station in downtown San Jose to an agricultural area north of the city of Shafter in the Central Valley. Because the southern terminus of the line would be roughly 50 miles south of the last station, HSRA plans to build an interim station at the southern terminus north of Shafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3394

The 2016-17 Budget: Local Government Mandates--Reasonable Reimbursement Methodology

Mar 17, 2016 - Local governments include counties, cities, local educational agencies (LEAs) such as school districts, and special districts. Historically, the state often deferred reimbursement. Proposition 1A (2004), which applies to non-education-related mandates, amended the Constitution to require the state to either (1) pay most mandate reimbursements in the annual budget act or (2) or suspend or repeal the mandate(s).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3395

The 2016-17 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Zero-Textbook-Cost Proposal

Mar 14, 2016 - Here in California, College of the Canyons is developing an associate degree for transfer in sociology that has zero textbook costs. National Demonstration Project. Achieving the Dream, a national nonprofit organization focused on improving success for community college students, announced a new OER degree initiative in February 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3392

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services

Mar 1, 2016 - The Public Safety Communications Office was transferred to OES from the California Department of Technology (CalTech) in 2013 and conducts various activities including installing telecommunications equipment and maintaining and repairing radios.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3376

The 2016-17 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 26, 2016 - Among degree, certificate, or transfer –seeking students who enter CCC prepared for college –level work, 71  percent achieve one of those outcomes within six years compared to 39  percent for unprepared students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3372

The 2016-17 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 23, 2016 - Eliminate General Fund Transfer. As mentioned earlier, the MVA receives about $80  million in miscellaneous revenues that are not limited in their use by the California Constitution. Under existing law, these revenues are transferred to the General Fund, making them unavailable to support MVA expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3366

The 2016-17 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 22, 2016 - Transfer of the Government Claims Program to DGS LAO Bottom Line: We recommend the Legislature approve the Governor ’s proposal to transfer the state ’s Government Claims Program (GCP) from the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (VCGCB) to DGS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3362

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor’s Reserve Proposal

Feb 19, 2016 - Once the BSA reaches this maximum, funds that would have been transferred into the BSA must be expended on building and maintaining infrastructure. Administration ’s Estimates for 2016 –17 Required Reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3348

The 2016-17 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 18, 2016 - Teacher Workforce Rather than creating policies to address shortages within the broad market of teachers, focus on perennial teacher shortage areas (special education, science, and math) and difficult to staff schools ( low –income , city –center , and certain types of rural schools).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3355