Proposition 13 Report: More Data on California Property Taxes [EconTax Blog]

Sep 22, 2016 - In our report , we also consider all inflation-adjusted city and county government tax revenues per person, including not only property taxes but also sales and other taxes received by California cities and counties, excluding state and federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/209

^[PDF] Home Rule, School Funding, and State/Local Fiscal Reform Initiative, Amendment No. 1-S

The amounts of these shifts in revenues, including the shifting of sales tax revenues from cities to counties, would depend on the decisions made by the Legislature during the transition period. To the extent that cities and counties choose not to allocate property taxes to special districts currently receiving property tax revenues, these districts would experience a decrease in revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2000/000452_INT.pdf

SPECIAL DISTRICTS

Some residents receive most of their services from their city or county government, not from special districts. Other residents receive many public services from "independent " special districts (those with independently elected governing boards) and "dependent " special districts (those districts in which the city council or board of supervisors serves as the governing board).
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/010195_calguide/cglgov3.html

^[PDF] 1954 Budget Analysis: Transmittal

Session), was transferred from the General Fund to the Postwar Unemployment and Construction Fund. Of the IX $90,000,000 appropriation, one-half was allocated to the cities and one- half'to the counties of the 'State, with allocations to be made on a matching basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1954/01_transmittal_1954.pdf

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The spending plan also includes $50  million ($15.5  million General Fund) in 2023-24, $23  million ($7.9  million General Fund) in 2024-25, and $3.5  million ($1.2  million General Fund) in 2024-26 to improve Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card technology and security.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/3

The cultivation, use, possession, and sale of marijuana. Amendment #1 [Ballot]

Dec 7, 2015 - State law also gives cities and counties the discretion to regulate the location and operation of such facilities. State and local governments currently collect sales tax on medical marijuana. A small number of cities also impose additional taxes on medical marijuana sales.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-085

^[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

^[PDF] Gaming Control Act, Amendment No. 3-S

This initiative would significantly increase revenues for cities and counties potentially in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually statewide, primarily from the gross revenue gaming tax. The amount for individual cities and counties would depend on the number and size of gaming facilities located in these cities and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2001/011027_INT.pdf

2008 Initiative Analysis: Save Our Schools and Public Services Act

Schools, community colleges, cities, special districts, and counties use property tax revenues to provide services. State law authorizes cities and counties to create redevelopment agencies to mitigate blight in urban sections of their communities that they call “redevelopment project areas.”
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2008/080111.aspx

^[PDF] The 2013-14 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

In 2004-05, for example, the state temporarily shifted roughly $1 billion in property tax revenues from schools and colleges to cities and counties as part of a complicated transfer associated with paying off the state’s Economic Recovery Bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/2013/education/prop-98/prop-98-022113.pdf