Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Feb 9, 2018 - As a general rule, the CCC needs to keep corpsmembers working on projects about 70  p ercent of the time in order to earn sufficient reimbursement revenues to keep the CCC from running a budgetary shortfall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3742

A Framework for Evaluating State-Level Green Stimulus Proposals

Jan 5, 2021 - In most cases, such shifts in how funding is allocated in the annual budget likely will not result in meaningful economic stimulus. (There might be some short ‑term stimulative benefits associated with spending additional money from one of the state ’s budget reserve accounts, but constitutional requirements likely limit the Legislature ’s ability to spend those funds on most environmental projects.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4308

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - Data that Parks has collected from surveys of program users indicate that the program serves participants across a range of incomes, including those at the lower end. Specifically, the survey found that 23  percent of respondents earn $30,000 or less; 19  percent earn between $30,001 and $60,000; 15  percent earn between $60,001 and $90,000; and 11  percent report earning between $90,001 and $120,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

Framework For Cap-And-Trade Investment Plan Needs Further Development

Sep 22, 2015 - As we have written previously ( here and here ), spending money on activities that reduce GHG emissions from covered entities might not actually reduce overall GHG emissions but instead simply change the mix of emission reduction activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3298

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—An Overview

Dec 21, 2018 - This is because the money used to pay the wages of these additional jobs comes from somewhere else in the economy. For example, the money used to pay these workers could come from households paying higher prices or higher taxes or fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3911

Addressing California’s Convenience Zone Recycling Center Closures

May 16, 2016 - How Do CZ Recycling Centers Make Money? As shown in Figure 2, CZ recyclers earn money from two main sources: the sale of collected scrap material and payments from the Beverage Container Recycling Fund (BCRF) —processing payments, handling fees, and administrative fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3466

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - In addition to staffing support, the budget provided $1.1  million (also from the Waste Discharge Permit Fund) in one-time contracting funds for SWRCB to begin design of an electronic application and information technology management system to support this work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

The 2020-21 Budget: Addressing Revenue Uncertainty in the 2020-21 Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Jun 4, 2020 - On the other hand, programs that allocate money to projects through one-time grants might be able to more easily scale their programs to different funding levels. How Much Funding Can a Program Spend in the Next Year?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4250

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - While there was little precedent to work from, revenues were expected to fall sharply. The Legislature took $54  billion in actions to address that problem (for example, it withdrew funds from reserves, shifted costs, reduced spending, and increased revenues).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - However, while the office ’s CEQA responsibilities and workload have grown, it has not received commensurate increases in ongoing state funds to support all of that work. Rather, LCI states that some of these staff have been funded via a patchwork approach including some limited-term sources (similar to how it has funded some administrative functions).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167