The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight

Dec 14, 2016 - Most of the individual construction projects are anticipated to be completed in four or five years from start to finish. This timeline is significantly faster than other state building projects. While DGS has not initiated the construction or major renovation of any state office buildings over the past ten years, it has generally taken the department at least six years to complete new state office building and major renovation projects in recent decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516

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

May 14, 2018 - Legislature Funded Initial Projects in 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18. The 2016 ‑17 Budget Act and 2017 ‑18 Budget Act included about $870  million in funding —mostly from lease revenue bonds —for the O Street and new Resources Buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Legislature Funded Initial Projects in 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18. The 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18 Budget Acts included about $870  million in funding —mostly from lease revenue bonds —for the O Street and new Natural Resources Buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor's State Office Building Proposal

Feb 9, 2016 - Finally, it should evaluate the various funding options for achieving the sequencing plan —such as buying existing nonstate buildings, building new space, or leasing additional space —and provide recommendations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Final Year of Funding for California Education Learning Lab. The budget package includes a final year of funding totaling $5.5  million from the General Fund for the California Education Learning Lab, with the intention to eliminate the program beginning in 2026-27 (which will achieve $4  million in ongoing savings).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Oct 17, 2019 - During this three-year period, the County of Sonoma will conduct land use planning activities that will inform DGS ’s final disposal of the property. Second, the budget includes $2.2  million from the General Fund in 2019 ‑20 to perform a site assessment of the Fairview DC —whose final residents will move out in 2019 —to support the future disposal of the property.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

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

Feb 10, 2016 - Proposal Raises Four Key Issues for the Legislature. To help guide the Legislature in its review of the proposal, we examine the key decisions it faces. As shown in Figure  2, these decisions are largely sequential, as the first decisions will have implications for the remaining issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Community colleges typically report graduation rates by cohort over a three ‑year or four ‑year period. For incarcerated students, the graduation rate over these periods is very low —less than 5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Capital Outlay

Oct 17, 2019 - The vast majority of the approved capital outlay funds in 2019 ‑20 are from three sources: the General Fund ($1.5  billion); Public Buildings Construction Fund ($1.1  billion), which comes from lease revenue bonds; and the 2016 California Community College Capital Outlay Bond Fund, which comes from general obligation bonds passed in Proposition  51 (2016) ($539  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4105

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

May 15, 2018 - We note that these concerns are consistent with ones we have raised in prior years, including in our analysis of the 2016‑17 deferred maintenance budget proposal . Projects Not Identified and No Clear Basis for Proposed Funding Levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841