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

May 5, 2025 - In 2010, Orange County, Orange County Flood Control District, and 14 cities within Orange County filed a test claim with CSM contending that various sections of the 2009 permit represented state-reimbursable mandated activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Property Tax Reductions to Diminish as Housing Market Improves [Publication Details]

May 5, 2014 - In 2013-14, 3.2 million properties—about one-quarter of all properties in California—received a temporary property tax reduction. In total, temporary property tax reductions lowered local government property tax revenues by an estimated $7 billion in 2013-14, amounting to 15 percent of total property tax revenues statewide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3010

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Beginning with the 2020 redistricting cycle, state law now requires the supervisor districts of the County of Los Angeles to be redrawn every ten years by a 14-member independent redistricting commission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

Nov 29, 2012 - The first page contains the entire graphic and will print on one sheet of paper, such as 8.5 x 11 (letter) or 8.5 x 14 (legal). The second and third pages each contain one half of the graphic and can be joined together for a larger copy of the graphic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2669

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - The median county received federal funding representing 24 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 l ocal revenues, while the median cities received about 14 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues. Further, whereas the top quartile of counties received federal funds that represented at least 31 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues, the top quartile of cities received federal funds that represented at least 20 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Senate Bill  450 allows 14 specific counties to implement the vote center model in 2018. Currently, five counties are on track to implement the new model for the 2018 election. The remaining counties may implement the model for the 2020 election.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - Although affordable housing approvals between 2010 and 2016 (the period covered by the Housing ‑Related Parks Program) were down across the state relative to the preceding seven years, cities with the most disadvantaged neighborhoods (top fifth of all cities) saw a bigger decline — 23  p ercent decrease compared to a 14  p ercent decrease in other cities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - This is about 14 percent of all California households, a considerably higher proportion than in the rest of the country (about 8  percent). Challenges of Expanding Existing Programs One possible response to these affordability challenges could be to expand existing housing programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345