The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - According to HDIS, California ’s 44 CoCs collectively provided services to about 337,000 people (unduplicated) who were experiencing homelessness during calendar year 2023. While complete data for 2024 are not yet available as of this writing, through September 30, 2024, about 310,000 people (unduplicated) had been served.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 30, 2025 - CSM has identified four new state-reimbursable mandates since enactment of the 2024-25 Budget Act . All four concern municipal stormwater permits issued by regional water quality control boards and costs incurred by local governments prior to 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - This mandate is one of four newly identified mandates since enactment of the 2024-25 Budget Act . We will assess the other three mandates —also related to stormwater permits —after the administration proposes a course of action, potentially in the Governor ’s revised budget proposal in May.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039