^[PDF] California Spending Plan 2000-01

In the crimi- nal justice area, local governments will receive new funding for the Citi- zens’ Option for Public Safety (COPS) program, law enforcement technol- ogy, and juvenile justice programs. Figure 16
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/spend_plan/0800_spend_plan.pdf

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Local Government Financing (9210)

Because city jails typically house nonviolent detainees for short periods of time, they cost much le ss to operate than county jails. Since creation of the booking fee, the California Board of Corrections indicates that city jail space capacity has increased considerably and booki ngs at city jails now exceeds 400,000 arrestees annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/general_govt/gen_25_9210_anl04.htm

1999-00 Budget, Perspectives and Issues: Rethinking Property Tax Shift Relief

Because we lack a method for measuring relative city or special district fiscal conditions, we were not able to perform a similar review for these governments. In the case of citie s, however, we note that the distribution of net losses does not reflect the wealth of city residents.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part5c/part5c_shifting-gears_pandi99.html

Major Features of the 1998 California Budget

The remain der of the transfers, along with matching federal funds, are returned as DSH payments to qualifying public and private hospitals. The budget action reduces by $40  million the amount of the transfers to the state needed to obtain the full allotment of DSH payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/1998/082498_bud_major_features/082498_major_features.html

Property Taxes: Why Some Local Governments Get More Than Others

Figure 3 highlights this variation in governmental responsibilities for three cities. Figure 3 All Cities Do Not Provide the Same Services Service x City provides service or pays others to provide service. o City is partly responsible for providing or paying for service. - Service provided by a special district or county.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/082196_prop_taxes/property_tax_differences_pb82196.html

^[PDF] These fees are distributed to cities and

These fees are distributed to cities and counties and used for mostly general purposes. In the late 1990s, the state reduced the VLF rate, reducing counties’ and cities’ revenues. Your county auditor redirects some funding from ERAF to backfill your county and the cities in your county for their reduced VLF revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Media/Videos/2015/one-percent-tax-script.pdf

^[PDF] The People’s Gaming Act

Major Provisions of the Initiative The initiative amends the State Constitution to provide Las Vegas- and Atlantic City-type gaming in Eureka, California exclusively for a period of 28 years. After that time, the Legislature could either extend Las Vegas- and Atlantic City-type gaming to all counties in California or eliminate it.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2002/020309_INT.pdf

Environmental Water Account: Need for Legislative Definition and Oversight

Water moves th rough the Bay-Delta's system of canals and channels, and is transported to cities and farms in the Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, and most of Southern California by the State Wa ter Project (SWP) and the federal Central Valley Project (CVP).
https://lao.ca.gov/2001/012901_env_water_acct.html

A Review of UC's Long Range Development Planning Process

As we discussed most recently in our report, Promoting Access to Higher Education: A Review of the State’s Transfer Process (January 2006), some campuses do not have the capacity and resources to admit all eligible applicants that apply to them.
https://lao.ca.gov/2007/uc_lrdp/lrdp_011007.htm

The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - Specifically, the Commission found that this requirement imposed new state-mandated activities and costs on county and city government agencies employing law enforcement officers for police protection services —but not K-12 school districts or community college districts that employ law enforcement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715