The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - It would use these funds for staffing to run a competitive grant process to select the ten additional campuses to participate in the program. After the new campuses are selected, California Volunteers would allocate the remaining $3.2  million as grants to campuses for program staffing and start-up activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - In other words, despite the 10  percent reduction in fees, the department ’s proposal to temporarily cover some of its indirect administrative costs outside of the rate structure would not make some of the IT services it provides competitively priced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - DVBE Incentive —The DVBE incentive, on the other hand, provides a competitive advantage to bidders who include a certified DVBE subcontractor in their proposals. The incentive applies to most competitive state solicitations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Without such information, the Legislature cannot determine whether continuing th e Youth Jobs Corps represents the best investment of state funds, or if other program structures or activities are a more effective way to pursue youth workforce development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement [Publication Details]

Mar 11, 2025 - This post contains assessments and recommendations related to two proposed budget augmentations: the College Corps program and a new Belonging Campaign.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5015

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - Most of these programs competitively award grants to community‑based organizations (CBOs) and other trusted messengers to communicate state messages locally or regionally using various media and, often, in various languages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - The California Film Commission competitively awards tax credits of up to 25  percent of certain production expenses, such as crew wages and post-production costs, to motion picture production companies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

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

Jan 13, 2022 - Regarding accountability, the Department of Finance indicates that the administration reserves discretion to propos e smaller future base increases were a segment not to demonstrate progress in meeting its  expectations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - While we were not able to compare service contracts and rates in our research, it seems at least possible based on our assessment of certain budget proposals related to the State Data Center that rates for some IT services offered by CDT are not competitive with private vendor rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package includes a few notable changes for GO-SERVE in 2025-26, including: Expansion and Extension of College Corps Program.  The budget includes a $5  million one-time General Fund augmentation for College Corps in 2025-26 to expand the program, laying the groundwork for more campuses to operate the program beginning in 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081