The 2022-23 Budget: California Spending Plan Series [Publication Details]

Sep 29, 2022 - Each year, our office publishes California Spending Plan, a series of publications that summarize the annual state budget. The Overview of the California Spending Plan is presented here along with short online posts that focus on major areas and features of the 2022-23 budget package. As more of these posts become available, we will add them below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4629

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Higher Education Budget Proposals

Jan 26, 2022 - Unlike UC, the Proposed Budget ‑Year Base Increase for CSU Falls Short of Projected Operating Costs. We also compare the Governor ’s proposed base increases for the universities to their operating cost increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4499

The 2022-23 Budget: CCC Chancellor's Office Staffing [Publication Details]

Mar 29, 2022 - Provides background on the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, discusses the Governor's proposal to add 19 new staffing positions and associated funding over a two-year period, and assesses and offers recommendations on the proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4579

The 2022-23 Budget: Middle Class Scholarship Program

Mar 30, 2022 - CSAC indicates the soonest it could calculate eac h student ’s MCS award amount each year is in the summer, after campuses have completed their admissions cycle and initial financial aid offers have been made.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4581

The 2022-23 Budget: Cybersecurity at the California Community Colleges

Mar 30, 2022 - Typically, a college would be expected to undergo independent security assessments every few years, pay for network security and anti ‑fraud software licenses annually, and make network upgrades periodically.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4582

An Analysis of University Cash Management Issues

Nov 10, 2020 - Campuses will repay the bonds from their operating budgets over ten years. For the first five years, UC will only make interest payments, thereby delaying the largest debt service costs to later years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4293

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Major University Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - In the years following the Great Recession, the state provided one ‑time funding to help the universities address their maintenance backlogs. Figure  10 shows the amounts appropriated by the state each year from 2015 ‑ 16 t hrough 2020 ‑21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4336

An Analysis of University Cash Management Issues [Publication Details]

Nov 10, 2020 - Given these developments, monitoring the universities’ fiscal condition over the coming years will be especially important for the Legislature. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4293

The 2021-22 Budget: UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Feb 26, 2021 - Though ANR relies on state funding to support its core operations, the state and UC ’s approach to budgeting for ANR costs has changed notably over the years. Below, we describe three ways ANR has been funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4391

The 2021-22 Budget: University Capital Outlay [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2021 - In this post, we focus on university capital outlay projects. We first provide background on university capital financing and project review. We then review capital outlay proposals for the California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC). Next, we raise some concerns with the previously authorized UC Merced medical school project and make an associated recommendation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4395