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

Feb 25, 2025 - Based on its theory of action and high ‑level implementation plan, the administration should be able to articulate how it would know if the model is working as expected. Specifically, the department should be able to articulate how the metrics it is tracking would logically be affected by the California Model and how it would know if trends in those metrics are indeed caused by the California Model as opposed to oth er factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - We identify some of the major actions taken in the 2025-26 budget process below. Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library. The budget includes an estimated $39  million one-time General Fund for Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This decrease is primarily due to the expiration of limited-term funding provided in 2023-24 for various grant programs as well as actions taken in the 2024-25 budget process. We describe some of the major actions below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Dec 14, 2016 - For this reason, the JLBC notification process is typically reserved for minor, midyear changes to the budget rather than substantial actions such as the approval of new projects costing many millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Why is the Governor requesting early action by the Legislature on the CAAHS Fund? Does the early action obligate the Legislature to funding in 2020 ‑21? Given the downside risk to revenues and the smaller operating surpluses under the Governor ’s proposed budget, taking early action to obligate funding would be risky.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

May 14, 2018 - For this reason, the JLBC notification process is typically reserved for minor, midyear changes to the budget rather than substantial actions such as the approval of new projects costing many millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - Even though interest rates are relatively high right now , if interest rates come down in the future, the state typically has the option of effectively refinancing at a lower interest rate. Specify Fund Source for Bond Debt Service Payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

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

Feb 10, 2016 - For fall 2014, UC admitted 13  percent of public high school graduates as freshmen. An even larger share of public high school graduates is eligible for freshman admission because not all eligible high school students choose to apply.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

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

Apr 11, 2025 - In other words, it might make future county failure-to-prison rates high for reasons that are outside of the control of the probation departments, again artificially lowering grant awards through the performance payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - However, we find that the cost per square foot of the proposed renovations appears to be high. Specifically, the building renovations are anticipated to cost $750 per net useable square foot ($550 per gross square foot).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758