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

Jan 13, 2025 - Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature. Recent budgets have set the SFEU between $3.5  billion and $4  billion. The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - The proposed funds to be transferred to MVA consist of $49  million from unallocated projected discretionary GGRF revenues and $32  million that would be “freed up ” by shifting some prior planned GGRF expenditures for clean energy activities to the Proposition  4 climate bond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

The 2024-25 Budget: Establishing the Office of the Inspector General for the High-Speed Rail Authority

Feb 8, 2024 - The package also included budget bill language that allows the Department of Finance (DOF) to approve an additional midyear augmentation of up to $1  million no sooner than 30 days after notifying JLBC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Fund Shift for CHP and DMV Capital Projects

Feb 27, 2023 - We recommend the Legislature weigh the trade ‑offs associated with using up ‑front cash versus lease revenue bonds for CHP and DMV projects, such as the resulting implications for the timing and level of costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4710

The 2020-21 Budget: Effect of Lower Cap-and-Trade Revenues on the High-Speed Rail Project

Jun 4, 2020 - However, if the project ends up having to return all of its federal funds (but experiences no further cost increases), it would need to average over $800 million per year in future auction revenues. The longer the state’s cap-and-trade revenues remain depressed, the higher revenues will need to be in future auctions to make up for the lower revenues received in the near term to continue to meet the project’s funding needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4252

DMV Shift to Online Services Due to COVID-19

Oct 16, 2020 - As shown in Figure  3, prior to the field office closures, online transactions made up about one-quarter of the department ’s total monthly transactions. During the field office closures, self-service online transactions increased to make up nearly half of the monthly total transactions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4283

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Transportation

Feb 14, 2017 - Specifically up to $40  million in SHOPP highway rehabilitation projects that would otherwise be funded in 2017-18 will instead be deferred. Funding the remainder of the planned charging stations in 2018-19 from SHOPP would result in deferral of additional projects, with a two-year total of up to $110  million in deferred highway rehabilitation projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3560

The 2017-18 Budget: California Highway Patrol

Feb 9, 2017 - The budget also includes $800,000 from the MVA to identify suitable parcels for replacing up to three additional field offices and provisional language to allow augmentations of up to $2  million for the purpose of entering into purchase options.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3551

The 2018-19 Budget: Governor’s May Revision Proposal for Caltrans’ Capital Outlay Support Program

May 13, 2018 - We estimate that about $19.1  million of the $24.4  million increase for overtime is related to this “true up ” for existing FTEs, while the remaining $5.3  million is for new overtime FTEs for SB  1 implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3833

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2023 - In order to help address the state budget shortfall, the spending plan adopts the approach of using lease revenue bonds —rather than up-front General Fund, as the administration had originally planned —to fund the design-build phases of ten field office replacement projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804