The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - That being said, the recent examples of Control Section 4.05, Control Section 4.12, and the current BCG-focused effort have demonstrated that predicting the level of savings from such activities is difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - For example, CHP offices need to be located close to the highway and large enough to accommodate certain site requirements such as communication towers, patrol vehicles and other law enforcement infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - For example, unless the statewide system envisioned by the updated transition plan is designed carefully, the regional approach may offer greater redundancy and may be more able to withstand failure as a result.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - For example, while the state as a whole met the 3  percent participation goal in nine of the past ten years, only 57  percent of state entities required to report to OSDS met the target individually in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - For example, the Legislature typically deliberates over the annual state budget bill from January until June. Moreover, policy bills often take at least several months to be reviewed, considered, and enacted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - For example, if the goal is to reduce the burden of lengthy reimbursement wait times, information on changes in wait times and how this has benefited local law enforcement would be necessary to determine whether these funds were having the intended effects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Some departments are identified as having no identified General Fund savings (for example, Department of Technology and the State Auditor), others are around the statewide average of 2  percent (for example, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Department of Finance, and Secretary of State), others are identified at or near the full 7.95
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Past examples of such projects include the Financial Information System for California and underscore the need for signific ant and thorough planning and execution of change management activities from the outset of the project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - For example, the current $25 broker-dealer agent/investment advisor representative application fee was set in 1959. This fee has not kept up with department costs, and even at the proposed level ($50 —a 100  percent increase), is well below inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - For example, when CDTFA seizes a retailer ’s noncompliant products, this counts as one seizure, regardless of the total amount of product seized. Can the administration provide workload measures that account for some of these limitations?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966