The 2024-25 Budget: California State Library

Mar 13, 2024 - The program has a local matching requirement, with grant recipients generall y required to contribute half of the funding for a project. The State Library, however, may reduce the local match if a local library demonstrates it has insufficient financial resources to meet the full matching requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4882

Update on Student Housing Assistance

May 7, 2024 - By subsidizing project costs, the program intends to increase the suppl y of student housing while also lowering housing charges for some students. Across the segments, the state share of project costs totals $2.2  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4898

The 2019-20 Budget: California State Library Local Assistance Proposals

Apr 25, 2019 - The librar y can either keep the book, give it to another library, or sell it. The program began as a pilot in 2011 i n Butte County (using federal LSTA funds) but has since expanded. According to staff at the State Library, 68 l ibrary jurisdictions ( 37  p ercent) currently participate in the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4012

The 2023-24 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 22, 2023 - Under the DOF approach, onl y districts whose amount generated by the SCFF formula declines in a given year compared to the previous year ’s SCFF ‑calculated amount is eligible for stability. We discuss these differences more later in this section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4695

The 2019-20 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2019 - As of January 2019, UC estimates resident undergraduate enrollment is growing in 2018 ‑ 19 b y 3,900 FTE students. This amount is 1, 900 m ore FTE students than explicitly expected by the state that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3946

The 2021-22 Budget: Various CSU Proposals

Mar 9, 2021 - At that point, unless estimated General Fund revenues exceed expenditures in 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑ 24 b y at least the total cost of the suspension items, then these items are to be automatically suspended on December 31, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4399

The 2020-21 Budget: Analyzing UC and CSU Cost Pressures

Dec 18, 2019 - As Figure 6 shows, debt service on previously approved state and university bonds is expected to rise in 2020 ‑ 21 b y about $ 100 m illion ($ 60 m illion at UC and $ 40 m illion at CSU). The rising costs are the result of decisions by the state and universities on what projects to approve, when to issue bonds, and how to structure debt payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4127

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - The state began using payment deferrals during the dot ‑com bust but relied much more heavily on them during the Great Recession. The practice of deferring college payments peaked in 2011 ‑12, when the state deferred a total of $ 961  m illion in CCC payments —accounting for nearly 30  p ercent of CCC Proposition  98 General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307

The 2017-18 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 16, 2017 - If successfull y implemented, however, the guided pathways model could help colleges improve program coordination and achieve better student outcomes. Proposal Does Not Build Off Best Practices to Date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3559