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 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 1, 2022 - California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry Background Recent Legislation Established Natural Working Lands Strategy and Associated Project Registry. In 2017, the Legislature enacted Chapter  237 (S B  27 , Skinner) which, among other things, required the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA), to establish a Natural Working Lands
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4510

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Other sections establish the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal ‑CSIC) and require Cal ‑CSIC to develop a statewide cybersecurity strategy. Section 8586.5. Government Code Section 8586.5 contains the statutory authority for Cal ‑CSIC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Proposals

Feb 20, 2022 - Strategic Plan for Enhancing Emergency Response Capacity Needed to Guide Future Budget Decisions. In view of the above, we find that the development of a strategic plan to enhance emergency response capacity would be valuable in assessing future proposals regarding the operations of OES.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4551

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - Knowing this would guide the potential solutions. For example, if facilities are closing because they are unable to sustain their operations due to the level of the SSI/SSP grants, the solution may be to reconsider the level of the SSI/SSP grant for all recipients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 3, 2017 - As we point out in our December 2016 report, The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight, the projects in that strategy are closely interrelated. Also, as we point out in that report, the administration’s strategy lacks basic information necessary to determine its merits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3544

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - This causes the state to lose valuable time that could have been spent developing and implementing other cost reductions strategies. In addition, overly ambitious cost savings targets can mask, to an extent, the size of the structural deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 12, 2020 - DGS completed the State Office Building Strategy in March  2016 and made some minor revisions to it in 2018. The State Office Building Strategy includes building three new state office buildings and renovating eight existing state office buildings within about ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4157

The 2018-19 Budget: Evaluating FI$Cal

Mar 2, 2018 - As part of this review, CDT routinely reports to departments on issues of concern that it has identified, shares lessons learned from other projects, and recommends risk mitigation and issue resolution strategies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3768

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - What strategies do CDTFA and other law enforcement partners use to address these avenues for tax evasion? Why has the number of tobacco inspections declined so much? We have seen workload trends presented in terms of total inspections, seizures, citations, and appeals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966