July 2017 Update: Los Angeles’ Bid for the Olympics and Paralympics

Jul 6, 2017 - Los Angeles sports venues typically are privately operated facilities. As such, facility operators presumably do not plan to subsidize Olympic events that occur there. The venue use agreements already in place with Olympic organizers, therefore, sometimes involve “a range of cost or revenue-recovery arrangements rather than fixed rents, ” according to the IOC report.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3695

Los Angeles' Bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

Nov 10, 2016 - Olympic Action to Be Centered in Four “Sports Parks. ” As shown in Figure  4, the current bid plan envisions that Olympic events will be centered primarily in four areas described as sports parks. Each sports park is described by LA  2024 as a multi –sport and entertainment experience within a secure perimeter where all attendees will be able to walk from one venue to another.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3506

Update on Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics

Mar 23, 2017 - KPMG ran a stress scenario that reduced less popular sports ’ sell rates by as much as one ‑fifth. That stress scenario, the report concluded, reduced ticket and corresponding food and beverage revenue by over $40   million —a very small potential shortfall compared to the overall amount of ticket revenue ($1.4  billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3622

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - The California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax Program administers a 12.5  percent tax on retail sales of e-cigarettes. This program is small and new, so this post focuses on the other two programs. Flavor Ban.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Referrals and complaints of alleged DVBE program abus e can come from the public, state entities (including awarding departments), or OSDS program staff. Most commonly, reports of alleged DVBE program abuse come through state entity referrals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - We recommend the Legislature reject the proposed equipment and operating cost augmentations, as we do not find them to be well justified. We recommend the Legislature approve the capital outlay projects, but switch their funding source from the General Fund to the MVA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - For example, Government Code Section 11549.3, which we describe in more detail below, requires state entities meeting the definition in Section 11546.1(e)(2) (and not defined as state agencies in paragraph [e][1]) to comply with state IS  policies, procedures, and standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - How Do the Options Compare? How do different options compare on parameters such as cost, effectiveness of addressing the problems encountered to date, and length of time to decommissioning of the legacy 911 system?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

A Review of LifeLine Budget Estimates and Enrollment Process

Apr 3, 2019 - The Governor ’s January budget proposal for 2016 ‑ 17 e stimated that caseload would be nearly 3. 8  m illion by the end 2016 ‑17 (including 3. 5  m illion wireless enrollees). About five months later, the Governor ’s May Revision for 2016 ‑ 17 e stimated that caseload would be nearly 3  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3995

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - For each workstream, the contract outlines a series of deliverables or milestones that the contractor would be required to meet over the course of a 28-week period as well as the amount of payment it would receive in exchange for doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156