^[PDF] 2000 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Major Expenditure Proposals

The CalWORKs legislation requires that savings result- ing from (1) exits due to employment, (2) increased earnings, and (3) di- verting clients from aid with one-time payments, be paid by the state to the counties as performance incentives.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/2000_pandi/part4b/pandi_pt4b_2000.pdf

2000 Budget Analysis: General Government Depts #3

Essentially the LAN allows field auditors to interact electronically with the district office, with headquarters staff, and also link into the board's information t echnology systems located at the Teale Data Center.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/general_govt/gen_depts3_anl00.html

2000 Budget Analysis: General Govt Depts #4

This could be achieved, for example, through implementation strategies that bring the new system online by department or geographic region. Implementation Plan Should Be Able to Incorporate New Technological Advances.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/general_govt/gen_depts4_anl00.html

2000 Budget Analysis: H&SS; DCSS 5175

The department is organized into the following units: Executive offices; Program Di vision; Systems Division; and Administration Division. While the Program Division includes a significant increase in positions (compared to the staffing levels in DSS), we recommen d approval of this component because (1) a significant proportion of the new workload is to carry out new tasks
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/health_ss/hss_16_DCSS_5175_anl00.htm

2000 Budget Analysis: H&SS; CC Child Care

Most of the available slots go to families with incomes at or below 50 percent of the state median. Although a famil y may retain its subsidized child care slot as its income rises up to 75 percent of the state median, it is very unusual to initially obtain a subsidized slot with an income above 50 percent of state median.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/health_ss/hss_3_cc_child_care_anl00.htm

Highlights of the 2000-01 Analysis and P&I

Judiciary and Criminal Justice Comprehensive Approach Needed to Link Mentally Ill Offenders to Community Care An increasing number of offenders are being released from jails and prisons to an inadequate patchwork of supervision, treatment services, and assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/highlights_00-01_analysis.html

2000 Budget Analysis: Res CC Watershed

Specifically, we do not think the proposal will achieve the goals of improving regulatory and restoration efforts for two reasons: (1) th e data collection design is flawed and (2) the finished assessments are inadequately linked to regulatory and restoration efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/resources/res_4_cc_watershed_anl00.htm

Department of Corrections (5240)2001 Budget Analysis

The department anticipates that an additional 1,500 slots at various institutions will be activated by the end of the current year. Increase in Substance Abuse Slots Is Justified. Although the implementation of Proposition 36 will reduce the number of new admissions and parole violators, there will continue to be a need for substance abuse treatment service s for the current inmate population.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/crim_justice/cj_07_5240_anl01.htm

2001 Budget Analysis:Improving Academic Prep

(In the next section of the Analysis , we discuss a new program —the Diagnostic Writing Service —which allows high school students to take CSU's and UC's placement exams online.) Increasing Accountability in Precollegiate Education Once students have been assessed and deemed unprepared, the higher education segments employ a variety of strategies to help them overcome their skill deficiencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/education/ed_04_cc_acad_prep_anl01.htm

2001 Budget Analysis:Collaborative Academic Prep Programs

We further recommend that the Legislature require the CSU and UC to honor articulation agreements ASSIST posts online. Occasionally, the ASSIST Web site displays some articulation agreements that are outdated.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/education/ed_05_cc_collaborative_anl01.htm