Press Release--Highlights of the 1998-99 Analysis and P&I;

A Market Driven Approach to Training Teachers The budget requests $3.3 million to add 600 new student "slots" at CSU Schools of Education. We recommend instead using the funds to award scholarships redeemable at CSU or any other accredited teacher training program to enable 1,200 financially needy students to pursue training and become credentialed K-12 teachers.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/021898_highlights_of_98-99_analysis_and_pandi.html

1998-99 Perspectives and Issues: Perspectives on State Expenditures Part III

In order to provide some funds for transit capital projects in the budget year and beyond, the Legislature may want to consider di recting the repayment of the loan in 1998-99 from the General Fund. Resources The state conserves and manages its natural resources through a number of programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/p_and_i_1998/part4_expenditures3_pandi98.html

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay Chapter

The department could reduce costs, for example, by (1) eliminat- ing a glass-enclosed atrium linking the two buildings, (2) reducing site development costs (currently estimated at $4 million), and (3) reducing the size and costs of the state operations center.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_anl98/cap_outlay_anl98.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Budget Analysis: Transportation Chapter

As Figure 10 shows, of the 1,155 Phase 2 bridges, construction was com- plete for 968 (or 84 percent) by the end of December 1997, and another 153 were under construction. Because engineering design is yet to be com- pleted on 26 bridges, Caltrans now estimates that construction of all but one of the Phase 2 bridges will be complete by the end of 2002 and the remaining one will be complete by the end of 2005.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_anl98/transportation_anl98.pdf

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Resources Departmental Issues #2

For example, not less than $6,750,000 is to be appropriated annually for di rect site cleanup. Budget Implements Chapter  870. Our review shows that the department's budget implements the provisions of Chapter  870.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/resources_depts2_anl98.html

Highlights of the 99-00 Analysis of the Budget Bill

This section of Title XIX of the Social Security Act establishes an eligibility category of Medicaid, replacing the previous automatic (or categorical) link to Medicaid for families on welfare. We estimate that the General Fund cost of Medi-Cal coverage for these beneficiaries will total about $90 million through 1998-99, and that most of this cost will be for p ersons who would
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/0299_99-00_highlights.html

^[PDF] LAO 1999 Perspectives and Issues: Perspectives on the Economy and Demographics

We forecast that personal income will increase by 5.4 percent in 1999 and 5.6 percent in 2000, com- pared to 6.4 percent in the prior year. Our projections assume that Califor- nia employment and personal income will grow faster than for the nation as a whole throughout the forecast period (see Figure 8), reflecting the relatively positive outlook for the state’s construction, finance, and services industries.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part2/part2_pandi99.pdf

1999-00 Perspectives and Issues: Perspective on State Expenditures

The share of the budget going to health programs rose primarily because of rising welfare-link ed caseloads (due to the automatic qualification of welfare recipients for Medi-Cal) and rapid increases in the cost of medical care.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part4a/part4a_pandi99.html

1999-00 Budget, Perspectives and Issues: Rethinking Property Tax Shift Relief

Only a Distant Link to Proposition 13 Relief The original property tax shift formulas reflected, to some extent, the relative benefit a local government received from the state after Proposition 13. This link to the past expl ains why cities incorporated after Proposition 13 incurred minimal property tax shifts in 1993-94 and why some counties had larger shifts than others.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part5c/part5c_shifting-gears_pandi99.html

^[PDF] LAO 1999 Perspectives and Issues: PROPOSITION 10: HOW DOES IT WORK?

Proposition 10 requires the state com- mission to spend its revenues in specified ways. As noted above, there are no such restrictions on county commission expenditures, and the state commission does not have direct control over specific spending plans at the local level.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part5d/part5d_prop-10_pandi99.pdf