The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Chancellor ’s Office Then Ranks Projects Within Each Category. Districts typically submit more modernization and growth project proposals than available state bond funding can support. Each year, the Chancellor ’s Office uses certain scoring metrics to rank projects within these two categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - To balance the 2024-25 budget, the state authorized reductions in most agencies ’ state operations funding. Specifically, most agencies were subject to reductions of up to 7.95  percent, in addition to having certain vacant positions eliminated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - The law library staff assist both state agencies and the public with research. Based on se lf-reported data from 2023-24, roughly half of the library ’s users were from state agencies while the other half of users were from the general public.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - Like many other state agencies, the largest component of UC ’s budget is employee salaries and benefits (comprising 74  percent of its core expenditures in 2023 ‑24). UC has more control than most state agencies, however, over its compensation costs, partly because most of its employees (nearly 80  percent) are not represented by a labor union.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - Whereas current policy requires most state agencies to use the PAL process, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and community college districts are not required to go through the process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - To balance the 2024 ‑25 budget, the state authorized reductions in agencies ’ state operations funding. Reductions of up to 7.95  percent were unallocated. Additional reductions were associated with eliminating certain vacant positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - The Government Finance Officers Association historically has recommended that government agencies hold at least two months of unrestricted budgetary fund balances (though exceptions are considered depending on certain factors such as the size of the agency, its diversification of revenue streams, the volatility of those revenue streams, and overall risk exposure).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - The Government Finance Officers Association historically has recommended that government agencies hold at least two months of unrestricted budgetary fund balances. Spending CLSF ’s Workforce Has Been Growing in Tandem With Enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014