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

Mar 7, 2025 - Department/Agency Readiness Teams (DARTs) Created by SCO and CalHR to Facilitate Change Management Activities. SCO and CalHR will coordinate change management efforts for the CSPS IT project using DARTs, which are individual teams of department staff assigned different roles and responsibilities for project-related communication, subject matter expertise, and training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - This post provides issues for legislative consideration, as well as questions for the Legislature to ask, ahead of an expected May Revision budget proposal to fund development and implementation of the California State Payroll System information technology project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5011

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Proposals

Feb 20, 2022 - Second, for the $1  million annually for local urban search and rescue teams, it is unclear whether providing funding for these local teams should be a state responsibility. For example, it is unclear whether the funding would simply replace local funding or increase the capacity of these teams.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4551

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - In July 2020, the Governor formed a strike team to address the delays and in September 2020, the strike team released its assessment of the department ’s challenges in administering the UI program and its recommendations to solve them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - In addition, the RAND researchers identified other factors that could reduce the estimated shortfall over time —notably, the availability of mobile crisis response teams, which are being implemented as a Medi-Cal benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2021-22 Budget: California Arts Council

Feb 1, 2021 - How Would the Matching Requirement Work? At this time, there is very little information available on how the proposed matching requirement would work. This includes who would provide the match and how much of a match would be required.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4337

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

Feb 9, 2022 - California Volunteers serves this purpose in the state, coordinating state funds and private donations to match federal funds for the state ’s AmeriCorps programs. Disaster Response and Recovery. California  Volunteers also is tasked with coordinating volunteer activities related to disaster response and recovery.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs Organizational Improvement Office

Feb 24, 2023 - Recommendations Reduce Funding and Positions to Match Current Levels on a Limited-Term Basis. We recommend that the Legislature reduce the proposed funding and positions to match the current authorized levels of $894,000 and five positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4704

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 spending plan includes budget-related legislation that provides the programs above broader eligibility for the use of funding and temporarily waives requirements that counties provide matching funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951