The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - Public education and outreach: Complete a public awareness survey to determine the effectiveness of the current public and business education strategy. Hold individual or regional workshops annually for specified sectors, including manufacturing, retail, construction, and landscaping industries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2016-17 Budget: Local Government Mandates--Reasonable Reimbursement Methodology

Mar 17, 2016 - Education Mandates Now Funded Through Two Block Grants. In 2012-13, the state created two education mandates block grants —one for all active K-12 mandates and one for all active community college mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3395

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Schools and child care providers will need to plan for how they can maintain continuity of education and services—particularly for more vulnerable and impacted students—as climate change disruptions become more frequent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Major Milestones: Over Four Decades of the State-Local Fiscal Relationship [Publication Details]

Nov 29, 2012 - The latest version has been updated to reflect recent elections, 2011 realignment, and the dissolution of redevelopment and expanded to include milestones related to education finance. Note: The PDF file has three pages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2669

The 2011-12 Budget: Should California End Redevelopment Agencies? [Publication Details]

Feb 8, 2011 - Program critics counter that it diverts property tax revenues from core government services and increases state education costs. The Governor’s budget includes a plan for dissolving redevelopment agencies and distributing their funds (above the amounts necessary to pay outstanding debt) to other local agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2440

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - Approaches include: capital improvements for housing and shelters; direct delivery of services, such as healt h education; and rental assistance programs. Despite these efforts, significant demand for short ‑term homelessness assistance remains.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? [Video]

Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF). This is a countywide multi-purpose fund originally created  to provide funding for schools For many reasons, the system of distributing these revenues has become very complex.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=96&videoId=144

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - This is roughly the magnitude of the state ’s largest General Fund expenditure outside of education ( Medi –Cal ). Affordable Housing Construction Requires Large Public Subsidies. While it is difficult to estimate precisely how many units of affordable housing are needed, a reasonable starting point is the state ’s current population of low –income renter households that spend more than half of their income on housing —about 1.7 million households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345