The 2024-25 Budget: Establishing the Office of the Inspector General for the High-Speed Rail Authority

Feb 8, 2024 - Together, the ongoing $2.4  million is proposed to support ten permanent positions and the additional $600,000 would support four temporary positions for three years. The new positions are summarized in Figure  2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2023 - In order to help address the state budget shortfall, the spending plan adopts the approach of using lease revenue bonds —rather than up-front General Fund, as the administration had originally planned —to fund the design-build phases of ten field office replacement projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Recent budgets have allocated or planned tens of billions of dollars for one ‑time or temporary spending purposes in 2021 ‑22, 2022 ‑23, and 2023 ‑24. The Legislature can select an entirely different set of spending solutions to address the budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 29, 2022 - (Previously, Caltrans was only authorized to use design-build for ten projects over a limited period.) Design-build is a project delivery method in which both the final design and the construction of a project are simultaneously awarded to a single entity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4628

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Transportation

Apr 5, 2022 - In  response to Executive Order N ‑19 ‑19, which called for CalSTA to leverage discretionary state transportation funds to reduce GHG emissions in the transportation sector and adapt to climate change, CalSTA developed ten guiding principles to leverage state transportation dollars to meet the state ’s climate, health, and social equity goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4576

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Implications for State Transportation Funding and Programs

Dec 13, 2023 - For example, through Chapter 508 of 2022 (SB 1121, Gonzalez) the Legislature has directed the California Transportation Commission to prepare a needs assessment of the costs to operate, maintain, and grow the state’s transportation system over the forthcoming ten years, including a forecast of revenues and potential funding shortfalls.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Coastal Flooding and Erosion From Rising Sea Levels Sea levels along the California coast are projected to rise by about six inches by 2030 and as much as seven to ten feet by 2100 compared to 2000 levels, depending upon the degree of warming the planet experiences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575