The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - The department also indicates that it would require local governments to provide a match to receive this state funding. Yet, a one ‑time match similarly does not ensure lasting efforts to address  litter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, work and economic activity will be disrupted by flooding of ports, docks, surrounding roadways, or adjacent railways through which goods are distributed —affecting deliveries of imports across the state, as well as exports such as Central Valley agricultural products that are shipped throughout the world.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2019-20 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 26, 2019 - The funding agreement for these funds requires the state to provide $2. 5  b illion in matching funds, but allows the state to spend down the federal funds in advance of the state match. HSRA fully expended the ARRA funds and expects to complete the state match requirement in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3948

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - (That is, in our view, these costs would not have occurred absent legislative action and as a result do not contribute to the budget problem the Legislature faces today.) Comparison to LAO November Outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

A Review of the State's Active Transportation Program

Mar 1, 2019 - Each MPO can either use the CTC ’s scoring criteria or their own guidelines and scoring criteria, which can include the requirement that project sponsors provide matching funds. Based on approved scoring criteria, each MPO will then select the next highest scoring projects for funding from its share of funding for the MPO component of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3955

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

Feb 8, 2024 - While the administration ’s perspective is that a notification was not required under the statute since the total amount of funding provided matches what OIG requested for 2024 ‑25, DOF did change the proposal materially.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

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

May 13, 2018 - In a May 2016 report, the CTC concluded that Caltrans ’ actual COS workload generally did not match its budget estimates, with the department only accurately forecasting its actual staffing needs within a 40  percent range for just over one-third of its projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3833

A Review of Caltrans’ Vehicle Insurance Costs

Dec 5, 2017 - In other words, claims that in the past might have cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars today are costing several millions of dollars. But determining how changes in legal practices by the state and plaintiffs ’ attorneys are affecting costs is difficult because each case can have unique circumstances.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3721

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - In our November Fiscal Outlook , we found the state has sufficient reserves to cover operating deficits in the event of a typical post‑World War II recession. This finding was based on two important assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135