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

May 5, 2025 - Develop a pilot program to control pollutant discharges from common interest areas and areas managed by homeowner associations or management companies. Many Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending Before the Commission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Allowable uses of the funds include outreach to people living in the identified encampments; housing navigators and other case managers to connect people with housing, health care, and other services they may need; improvements to and expansion of emergency shelters and other short-term housing; and delivery of permanent housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 30, 2025 - For example, CSM determined that requirements to develop and implement certain plans (such as a watershed action plan), provide formal training to relevant employees, and develop a proposal for assessing effectiveness of the urban runoff management program to be state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - Refer to the box for additional information about the Federal Emergency Management Agency Public Assistance Program. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Program Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID ‑1 9) F EMA Reimbursement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Specifically, beginning in 2002, certain portions of Los Angeles County located in the Ballona Creek watershed were subject to a tras h “Total Maximum Daily Load ” (TMDL) plan, which carried its own trash management requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - We hope that by shedding light on how COVID ‑19 has added to the financial stress of renters, we can inform policy solutions to help renters through this crisis. In particular, the state and local governments will soon have to determine how to allocate recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312