The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package allocates funds authorized by Proposition  4, which provided $10  billion in bond funds for activities designed to increase the state ’s resilience to the impacts of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Doing so would allow rehabilitation programs that already exist at the prison to move into the new building designed for them and for people to begin accessing the library and other common areas in  the building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - Under the first method, “ design –bid –build , ” UC would hire an architecture and engineering firm for the project design and then award the construction contract through a competitive bid. Under the second method, “ design –build , ” UC would contract with one firm to both design and construct the project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—State Project Infrastructure Fund

May 14, 2018 - The administration estimated the remaining design and construction phases of the projects —known as the design-build phase —would total about $1.3  billion and would be funded from lease revenue bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - For instance, the types of flood control projects funded by Propositions 1E and 84 are often large and have unique design characteristics that require significant time to plan and construct. Multiple Funding Allocations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget delays consideration of $721.7  million in lease revenue bonds that were proposed in January for the design-build phase of the renovations of the Bateson, Jesse Unruh, and Natural Resources buildings to a future budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - National research indicates that when postsecondary education is well designed and implemented effectively in correctional settings, it can reduce the rate of reoffending, along with increasing employment rates and wages when incarcerated students are released.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Evaluating the Sale-Leaseback Proposal: Should the State Sell Its Office Buildings? [Publication Details]

Apr 27, 2010 - The sale-leaseback is designed to free up the state’s equity in the buildings to provide one-time revenue for addressing the state’s current budgetary shortfall. We estimate that the sale of buildings would result in one-time revenue to the state of between $600 million and $1.4 billion, but that annual leasing costs would eventually exceed ownership costs by approximately $200 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2261

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides lease revenue bond funds for the design-build phase of a project to construct a building complex with a total of 1  million net usable square feet at the former site of the State Printing Plant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - In late 2017, the administration selected firms to perform the final design and construction of the O Street and new Natural Resources Building projects, and DGS currently anticipates that it will complete these projects in 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758