Five Guidelines for Using Revenue Forecasts [EconTax Blog]

Feb 20, 2025 - Interpret Real-Time Tax Collections with Caution. Real-time tax collections provide an important means of tracking and reevaluating revenue forecasts throughout the year, but decision makers should do so with caution.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/822

Five Guidelines for Using Revenue Forecasts [EconTax Blog]

Feb 20, 2025 - Interpret Real-Time Tax Collections with Caution. Real-time tax collections provide an important means of tracking and reevaluating revenue forecasts throughout the year, but decision makers should do so with caution.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/822

Excess ERAF: A Review of the Calculations Affecting School Funding

Mar 6, 2020 - Recipients of property tax revenue include cities, counties, special districts, K ‑12 schools, and community colleges. The county auditor is responsible for allocating property tax revenue to these entities according to state law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4193

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Tax Rates

Feb 11, 2022 - The remaining one ‑third goes directly to cities and counties to support local street and road maintenance and rehabilitation. Federal Funding Also Supports Transportation Projects. In addition to state excise tax revenues, the state receives federal fuel excise tax revenue for transportation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4528

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Under the current MOU, employees whose worksite is located in the Counties of Alameda, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, or San Francisco receive a $250 per month pay differential . Effective the first day of the pay period following ratification, the proposed agreement would provide Unit 9 members whose worksite is located in Contra Costa County a pay differential of $250 per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Medi-Cal Student Services Funding Proposal

Feb 17, 2021 - In California, counties provide this comprehensive set of services through SMHS. Children ’s Eligibility for SMHS Determined by Both Counties and Managed Care Plans. As discussed earlier, county behavioral health is responsible for providing SMHS and managed care plans are responsible for providing non ‑SMHS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4377

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Medi-Cal Student Services Funding Proposal [Publication Details]

Feb 17, 2021 - This post analyzes the Governor’s proposal in the Department of Health Care Services to provide $200 million General Fund ($400 million total funds) one time to provide incentive payments to Medi-Cal managed care plans to increase the number of students receiving behavioral health services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4377

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - Similarly, the state might have sought to increase economic outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley through other means, such as providing businesses with tax credits for hiring workers in the region who face certain economic disadvantages or funding a geographically targeted expansion of the California Competes program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

Homeownership affordability. [Ballot]

Oct 27, 2023 - Local governments rely on a variety of taxes and fees to fund their services, like schools, fire and police, public works, and parks. The property and sales taxes generally are the largest sources of local tax revenue for cities and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-025

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Specifically, when a local emergency is declared by a city, county, or city/county governing body, CESA requires the emergency to be reviewed every 60 days by the governing body until the local emergency is terminated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029