^[PDF] Open Meeting Act/Brown Act Reform Mandate

City of Fresno. During both years, the city claimed over $1,000 per City Council agenda. The city’s claims (over $50,000 per year) included reimbursement for time spent on mandate compliance by the city manager, depart- ment directors, city attorney, and others.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/localgov/2004/Open_Meeting_Act_060904.pdf

Fiscal Outlook: Focus on Revenues [EconTax Blog]

Nov 15, 2017 - Consistent with our assumptions about capital gains, we estimate a much larger 2017-18 “true up” transfer to the state’s rainy day fund. The larger transfer (deposit) to the rainy day fund is reflected as a reduction in revenues and largely explains the difference shown in the table for “other revenues and transfers.”
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/257

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: Perspectives on State Revenues

Of this total, 0.25 percent is deposited into county transportation funds, while the remaining 0.75 percent is allocated to city and county governments for their general purposes. This latter rate will return to 1 percent once the deficit-financing bonds are paid off.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/2007_pandi/pi_03_anl07.aspx

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The 2019 MOU included a provision that established a working group to develop strategies to enhance recruitment, transfer, and retention of female staff at women’s prisons. We asked CDCR to provide an update to us on the outcome of this working group.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

(f) (1) If no local agency has been certified by January 1,

(f) (1) If no local agency has been certified by January 1, 1997, to implement the unified program within a city, either the county in which the city is located, or the joint powers agency into which the county has entered for the purposes of implementing the unified program, shall implement the unified program within that city, if the county or joint powers agency is a certified unified program agency.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/sb1082_93.txt

^[PDF] Local Government Bankruptcy in California: Questions and Answers

The recent bankruptcy filing by the city of Stockton provides an example of how a municipality may seek to modify various types of debt. The city of Stockton filed for Chapter 9 in June 2012, citing unsustainable employee compensation and retiree expenses, excessive debt load, and the economic downturn as primary factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/localgov/local-government-bankruptcy-080712.pdf

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Debt Liabilities

Oct 17, 2019 - This means the state makes the transfer in the first few days of July. This deferral only appl ies to the state ’s General Fund pension payments —other funds ’ fourth-quarter CalPERS payments are paid in June.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4106

The Compassionate and Sensible Access Act [Ballot]

Jun 4, 2015 - While state law prohibits the establishment of facilities that distribute, sell, or cultivate medical marijuana within 600 feet of a school, it otherwise gives local cities and counties the discretion to regulate the location and operations of such facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-018

California Personal Income Grew Faster Than US in 2017 [EconTax Blog]

Apr 5, 2018 - The state ’s overall income growth rate (4.5 percent) was held back by very slow growth in transfer payments, but this is an indication of the strength of the state ’s economy: transfer payments consist largely of means-tested benefits such as Medi-Cal and unemployment insurance.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/271

Initiative Analyses

File No. 2001-005 People 's Gaming Act The initiative amends the State Constitution to legalize Las Vegas- and Atlantic City-type gambling in 12 California cities and on one Indian reservation for a period of 28 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiatives?page=71