The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - A different data source —the state Position Vacancy Report , which calculates the average annual vacancy rate across all types of staff in the department excluding temporary positions—reports an even higher vacancy rate: 13.6 percent as of 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These trends will be even more severe in some inland counties. For example, in Fresno County, the historical trends of five days of extreme heat per year are projected to increase to 29 days annually between 2035 and 2064 and 43 days annually between 2070 and 2099.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget provides $ 31  m illion from the General Fund in 2019 ‑ 20 —to be expended over a few years —to backfill wildfire ‑related property tax loses for cities, counties, and special districts associated with certain major wildfires that have occurred since 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - We understand that while the administration indicates it will provide this payment in the future—after the final calculation of the minimum funding requirement—it also has not scored this future obligation in its multiyear budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Impact of COVID-19 on State Transportation Revenues

Sep 17, 2020 - Funding for STIP comes from a specified portion of the gasoline excise tax, with 75  percent allocated to counties on a formula basis for projects they select and 25  percent to Caltrans for interregional projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4268

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The state calculates the minimum guarantee each year using formulas in the State Constitution. The guarantee encompasses state General Fund revenue as well as local property tax revenue. Compared with the estimates in the June 2021 budget plan, the administration revises its estimates of the guarantee up $2.5  billion (2.7  percent) in 2020 ‑21 and $5.3  billion (5.7  percent) in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2017-18 Budget: Transportation Funding Package

Feb 17, 2017 - Of the total funding for local roads, roughly one ‑third comes from the state from “shared revenues ” —a portion of the state ’s excise taxes on gasoline and diesel that are distributed to cities and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3572

A Review of Caltrans’ Vehicle Insurance Costs

Dec 5, 2017 - About half of the miles driven in 2016 were attributable to four districts covering the Bay Area, the greater Sacramento area, the lower portion of the Central Valley, and Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3721

The 2020-21 Budget: Transportation

Feb 10, 2020 - Scores are calculated at the district level, but are averaged to calculate overall statewide scores for various maintenance activities. The department ’s level of services scores for tree and brush encroachment have been about 70 i n recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4149

The 2018-19 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 8, 2018 - These adjustments are calculated based on the number of permanent positions authorized for each department in the state budget. The budget does not provide similar compensation adjustments for temporary positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3745