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

Dec 14, 2016 - LAO Recommendations Based on our assessment, we make several recommendations to help guide the Legislature as it faces key decisions points related to the administration ’s strategy: First, we recommend that the Legislature direct the administration to provide additional information and a robust analysis that will allow the Legislature to assess if the strategy represents the best approach available to address aging state office buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - (See our publication, The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight for a more complete discussion of this issue.) . . . But if These Projects Are a Guide, Full Plan Will Be Very Expensive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

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

May 14, 2018 - The Department of General Services completed the State Office Building Strategy in March  2016 and made some minor revisions to it in January 2018. The State Office Building Strategy includes building three new state office buildings —a new Resources Building on P Street to replace the existing Resources Building, a new building on O Street, and a new building on Richards Boulevard on the existing Printing Plant site.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840

The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2014 - In order to assist the Legislature, we suggest some broad questions it may find helpful in guiding future discussions. We further suggest that the Legislature consider how, as an institution, it addresses infrastructure issues—for example, by creating a joint infrastructure committee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2916

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Officers on resource teams receive specialized training on the nature of mental illness and trauma, de ‑escalation techniques, and strategies for motivating people to engage in rehabilitative programming and mental health care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

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

May 15, 2018 - Without such a strategy, there is no certainty that departments will have the necessary tools or other resources to address the underlying causes of their deferred maintenance backlogs. A strategy for preventing the accumulation of new deferred maintenance projects is essential to ensuring that the problem does not get worse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

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

Feb 12, 2016 - Without such a strategy, there is no certainty that departments will have the necessary tools or other resources to address the underlying causes of their deferred maintenance backlogs. A strategy for preventing the accumulation of new deferred maintenance projects is essential to ensuring that the problem does not get worse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

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

Feb 9, 2016 - In addition, addressing the state ’s infrastructure needs will require more than a one –time commitment of funds, and instead would benefit from an ongoing strategy. This strategy could provide funding on a regular basis to care for the state ’s assets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

Cal Facts 2018 [Publication Details]

Dec 6, 2018 - With a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, quickly summarizing how its economy or state budget works is impossible. Instead, Cal Facts is a visual guide—using a variety of different charts—to the state's economy, revenues, and major program trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3905