The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - CSM determined that several of the requirements in the permit issued by the regional board in 2010 constitute state-reimbursable mandates for Riverside County and the cities of Riverside County that are within the Santa Ana region (some cities in Riverside County fall within the jurisdiction of the Santa Ana Regional Board and some within the jurisdiction of the San Diego Regional Board).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - The purpose of ERF is to provide competitive grants to cities, counties, and CoCs to address “critical encampment concerns ” in their communities and transition individuals to “safe and stable housing, ” with a focus on permanent housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 5, 2025 - City of Salinas ) —which found that the city did not have sufficient fee authority to levy a stormwater fee due to the voter approval requirement —was wrongly decided. Senate Bill  231, which took effect in 2018, makes increasing stormwater-related fees more straightforward for local governments because they can use the majority protest provision rather than having to seek voter approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - Roughly two-thirds of the revenue is transferred into the newly created Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA). O f this amount, $762  million is set aside annually for specified purposes such as active transportation, bridge and culvert repairs, and transportation research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

A Primer on the Vehicle License Fee [Publication Details]

Jun 17, 1998 - A Primer on the Vehicle License Fee [Publication Details] Description: The VLF is a fee on the ownership of a registered vehicle that provides nearly $4 billion in annual revenues. This report is intended to answer a number of questions related to the VLF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Provides funding to eligible cities and Continuums of Care for a variety of short ‑term housing solutions for the homeless, such as shelters and rapid rehousing. Housing and Disability Advocacy Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

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

May 2, 2023 - Historically, a city council or board of supervisors was responsible for establishing their own new council and supervisor districts, respectively. After the creation of the CRC, some charter cities established independent commissions with the authority to adopt a redistricting plan independent of their city council.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - HCD transferred the remaining $15 million to DGS through an architectural revolving fund in September 2021 for the investigation and remediation of environmental conditions on excess sites. Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 Budget Proposal Augments Funding for State Excess Sites Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

May 12, 2021 - For cities, federal funds ranged from 0. 03 p ercent to 67percent of local revenues. (This small amount on the low end for cities largely is because small cities did not receive any CRF funding directly from the federal government.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Ideally, to evaluate these programs ’ effects we would compare the outcomes of eligible cities and counties to similar cities and counties that were not eligible. All cities and counties, however, were potentially eligible for these programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938