The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 2, 2024 - To address the budget problem, the budget also makes several other funding changes: Postpones Infrastructure Funding for the City of Fresno. Last year ’s budget allocated $250  million for public infrastructure investments in the City of Fresno.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4934/governors-office-of-emergency-services

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 2, 2024 - To address the budget problem, the budget also makes several other funding changes: Postpones Infrastructure Funding for the City of Fresno. Last year ’s budget allocated $250  million for public infrastructure investments in the City of Fresno.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4934

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The bulk of the proceeds would be allocated to cities and counties to fund affordable rental and ownership housing for low ‑income and middle ‑income households. Second, the package places a $4  billion general obligation bond on the November 2018 ballot.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/12

The 2025-26 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 17, 2025 - The lower debt payments reflect weaker projected revenues in 2025 ‑26, which reduce constitutionally required transfers. How Does the Governor Propose Addressing the Budget Problem? Figure  1 summarizes the budget solutions described in this section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - Proposition  4 sets up a system in which all tax revenues —with only limited exceptions —are counted at some level of government (for example, the state, or a city, county, or school district). Funds transferred between these entities of government are counted at some part of the structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 5, 2020 - Cities. The budget provides $ 500  m illion to cities for homelessness, public health, public safety, and other services to combat the COVID ‑ 19 p andemic. Of this total, $ 225  m illion is provided to cities with populations greater than 300, 000 t hat did not receive a direct federal allocation and $ 275  m illion is provided to cities with a population of less than 300,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4263

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Nov 8, 2023 - General Fund Transfer. The budget authorizes the Department of Finance to transfer up to $20.5  million from the General Fund to the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund if revenues to support the special fund are insufficient in 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4814

Flexible Funding to California in the American Rescue Plan

Mar 23, 2021 - Cities and counties will receive fiscal recovery funds based on a set of formulas that considers the jurisdiction ’s population, among other factors. The federal government will distribute funds directly to all counties and cities with populations greater than 50,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4407

Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - Cities and Special Districts Receive Almost $8 Billion in Federal Funds. Cities received over $4 billion in federal funds in 2014-15. The federal Community Development Block Grant—supporting local housing and economic development activities—was the single largest program for which cities received federal funding ($231 million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531/5

The 2019-20 Budget: Structuring the Budget: Reserves, Debt and Liabilities

Feb 5, 2019 - Specifically, if the state transfers these funds to a pension system, the system ’s board can invest the funds, likely earning a higher rate of return than the funds would earn invested as state reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3925