The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - For example, SWRCB administers: Drinking Water for Schools. Recent budgets provided $ 10  m illion General Fund in 2016 ‑17 and another $6. 8  m illion in 2018 ‑19 for grants to local education agencies to improve access to, and the quality of, drinking water in public schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933

Options for Creating a Forestry Management Training Center

Jan 4, 2022 - The Corps provides young adults (generally age 18 to 25) one year or longer of paid service to work on environmental projects and respond to natural disasters. The Corps operates out of 26 centers across the state, including both residential and nonresidential centers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4487

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 17, 2019 - These first-year costs include CalFire staff, contract pilots, and the first year of a three-year exclusive use contract for a C-130 air tanker to use as a training platform and be available to assist in wildfire response.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4103

The 2020-21 Budget: Climate Change Proposals

Feb 13, 2020 - This would require annual payments averaging about $ 200  m illion from the General Fund over about the next 40 years. The exact costs and time period would depend on the specific details of the bond ’s sales.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4155

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor's Wildfire-Related Proposals

Feb 21, 2020 - Fire Engine Prepositioni ng. $25  million annually to pre ‑position mutual aid fire engines and other related equipment in order to decrease local response times to potentially destructive wildfires and other disasters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4172

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - Specifically, 21 p ercent of reporting agencies had compliance rates below 25 p ercent, while 38 p ercent had compliance rates above 75 p ercent. In the box below, we discuss some issues related to why measuring compliance rates is a valuable, though imperfect, measure of wildfire risk reduction, as well as why there is no clear optimal compliance rate that the state should target.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

Overview of California's Ports

Aug 23, 2022 - The state plans to lend these properties to support port operations for one year, with an option to renew for another year. At the time of this writing, DGS had leased these properties to a wareho using company that will work with importers to store containers on these sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4618

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - One of the most publicized short ‑term policies implemented during the 2012 t o 2016 drought was Governor Brown ’s call for a 25  p ercent statewide reduction in urban water use. In response to direction from an executive order, SWRCB passed emergency regulations implementing temporary water conservation requirements for urban potable water users, including certain limitations on outdoor irrigation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

What Threat Does Sea-Level Rise Pose to California?

Aug 10, 2020 - To the degree local property tax revenues drop, this also could affect the state budget in some years because the California Constitution could require that losses in certain local property tax revenues used to support local schools be backfilled by the state ’s General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4261

Preparing for Rising Seas: How the State Can Help Support Local Coastal Adaptation Efforts

Dec 10, 2019 - The totals shown in the figure include $ 25  m illion for OPC and nearly $ 4  m illion for SCC appropriated in the 2018 ‑19 Budget Act that can be used for coastal adaptation projects, some of which likely has not yet been allocated for specific projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4121