The 2017-18 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 3, 2017 - Back to the Top Zero Emission Vehicle Project LAO Bottom Line. The Governor proposes $6.7  million on an ongoing basis to support charging stations for Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) in state government consistent with an administration expansion plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3544

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

Considering Changes to Streamline Local Housing Approvals

May 17, 2016 - State law requires, however, that each region ’s allocation methodology be consistent with their Sustainable Community Strategy —a state-mandated long-range regional strategy to reduce regional greenhouse gas emissions through transportation and land use planning.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3470

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - However, the administration has not provided key information that would be necessary to assess the State Office Building Strategy, such as a funding plan with an estimate of costs of strategy and an analysis of alternatives to the proposed strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

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: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - Develop Comprehensive Response Strategy Among State and Local Governments. The Council recommends the state develop a comprehensive response strategy that identifies a clear path for responding to the state ’s homelessness crisis and assigns clear responsibilities to the state, cities, and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

The 2017-18 Budget: California State Payroll System

Feb 28, 2017 - Strategy to Move Project Forward Developed. Following the termination of the primary vendor contract, SCO developed a new strategy. In particular, the project scope was narrowed by excluding California State University (CSU) from the project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3590

State Fiscal Effects of California’s Minimum Wage

Nov 15, 2017 - As shown in the top row of the figure, the higher statewide minimum wage will increase the wages of service providers for some human services programs —particularly the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program and the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) —leading to higher General Fund spending on those programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3714

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - As Figure 3 shows, displacement was more than twice as likely in low –income census tracts with little market –rate housing construction (bottom fifth of all tracts) than in low –income census tracts with high construction levels (top fifth of all tracts).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

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