The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - However, we recommend an alternative mai ntenance payment that pays only for specific evidence-based practices that will improve public safety and does so in ways that are more likely to generate state savings —two of the key goals of the original program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Even those confined to life sentences shared that a CCC education had been beneficial in various ways, including by allowing them to serve as mentors to younger incarcerated persons and inspiring family members on the outside to go to college.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - However, the flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data is lacking. We will continue to monitor Proposition  36 implementation and the prison population and make recommendations based on the updated information available at the May Revision, including the administration ’s revised estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Oct 17, 2019 - These rates have increased in recent years due to a combination of new actuarial assumptions adopted by the CalPERS board and lower-than-assumed investment returns. The state ’s total contribution to CalPERS in 2019-20 is expected to be $6.8  billion —$3.9  billion paid from the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3929

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

Feb 25, 2025 - To address this concern, they announced the department is implementing the California Model, which aims to make “system changes that create an environment rich in rehabilitation, a safer and more professionally satisfying workplace for all staff, and improve outcomes and opportunities for success through robust re ‑entry efforts. ” More  specifically, the memorandum cited the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - The state often pays for some of the costs of tenant improvements at leased facilities over time with interest. The administration assumes that the interest rate the state pays for spreading these tenant improvement costs over time is 8  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

A Ten-Year Perspective: California Infrastructure Spending [Publication Details]

Aug 25, 2011 - Throughout the report, we also highlight ways the state could manage infrastructure to reduce state costs such as prioritizing the state’s infrastructure investments to the most critical and appropriate programs, adopting strategies to reduce infrastructure demand, and identifying additional revenue to support infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2509