The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - Modify Performance Payment We concur with the administration that providing payments based on performance is an important way to achieve the original goals of the SB  678 grant program. The Governor ’s proposal gets the state closer to achieving those goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

May 15, 2018 - A strategy for preventing the accumulation of new deferred maintenance projects is essential to ensuring that the problem does not get worse. Moreover, the administration has not identified a long-term plan for working through the rest of the deferred maintenance backlog.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

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

Feb 12, 2016 - A strategy for preventing the accumulation of new deferred maintenance projects is essential to ensuring that the problem does not get worse. Moreover, the administration has not identified a long –term plan for working through the rest of the deferred maintenance backlog.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - One advantage of bonds is that they can better align who pays for the project with who benefits from the project. Since capital outlay projects will provide benefits for many years, future taxpayers would pay for the future bene fits (through debt service payments) rather than current taxpayers paying for the entire project (through cash financing).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also included supplemental reporting language requiring a report —due on or before March  1, 2026, and annually thereafter for three years —on the problems the program was designed to address and how the funds were used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - Without such strategies or proposals, there is no certainty that departments will have the necessary tools or other resources to address the underlying causes of their deferred maintenance backlogs and ensure that the problem does not get worse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor allocates this amount among three uses: ( 1)  c ontinuing to implement the state ’s plan to prefund retiree health benefits, ( 2)  r epaying a 2017 ‑ 18 l oan from the state ’s cash resources that supported a supplemental pension payment in that year, and ( 3)  a supplemental pension payment to the state ’s teacher retirement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - In addition, UC would make annual payments to the partner for the partner ’s financing costs ($13  million) and for the partner to perform maintenance on major building systems ($5.4  million). UC indicates that the contract it plans for the partnership would allow it to reduce or withhold these payments if the facilities do not meet certain operational standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides $8.1  billion from various funds for debt service payments in 2019 ‑20. This represents an increase of 1  percent from 2018 ‑19. This total includes $7.1  billion for general obligation bonds ($4.7  billion from the General Fund) and $1  billion for lease revenue bonds ($651  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 15, 2017 - Below, we discuss how we estimate the state ’s debt burden will change over the forecast period. Debt-Service Ratio (DSR) Is a Common Way to Measure Debt Burden. The DSR is often used as one indicator of the state's debt burden.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3713