The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - While this proposal may help the state reach a balanced budget “on paper, ” in reality, the unrealized savings would flow into the 2025-26 budget process and add to any fiscal challenges the Legislature is facing that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

2017-18 Budget: Control Section 4.11—Position Transparency

Mar 24, 2017 - Because this assumption no longer accurately reflected reality, it was removed from the budget in 2012 through a statewide budget exercise . In another example, the Government Code used to require the State Controller’s Office (SCO) to abolish certain authorized positions in departments that were vacant for six consecutive months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3633

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - We also find that more projects acknowledge the realities both of the annual legislative budget process and of state entities ’ continued programmatic responsibilities that necessitate some elements of the traditional approach to project D &I.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of State Hospitals

Feb 13, 2019 - The department also indicates that courts have com plained about the quality of the work carried out by some clinicians. Reduces Quality of Care. This workload takes away time clinicians could otherwise spend treating their patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3936

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - On January 10, 2022, Governor Newsom presented his proposed state budget to the Legislature. In this report, we provide a brief summary of the proposed budget based on our initial review. In the coming weeks, we will analyze the plan in more detail and release several additional budget analyses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492