LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Intersegmental: Student Fees

Even if the Legislature selected di fferent targets than used in our illustration, the basic relationships shown would remain the same. Recommend Adoption of Governor's Resident Undergraduate Fee Proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/education/highered_05_studentfees_anl04.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: California Community Colleges (6870)

Proposal Draws Illogical Link Between Noncredit Instruction and Equalization . More troubling is the Governor's proposal that the special noncredit funding would be available only to districts that did not benefit from equalization.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/education/highered_09_6870_CCC_anl04.htm

^[PDF] LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: General Government Chapter

Revenues to the Special Distribution Fund are dependent on the number of slot machines in op- eration as of September 1, 1999. Tribes contribute revenues each quarter to the fund, up to 13 percent of the average net win from these machines.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/general_govt/gengov_anl04.pdf

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Child Care

Generally, the lowest-income families on a non-CalWORKs child care waiting list are given priority for available child care slots. These current and former CalWORKs families may have higher incomes then other families on a child care waiting list and, therefore, they may be given lower priority for available child care slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/health_ss/hss_02_cc_childcare_anl04.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Food Stamps Program

Eliminating these eligibility expansions would result in (1) com bined General Fund administrative and CFAP savings of about $3.5  million in the budget year, and (2) foregoing $203  million in federal food coupons for low-income Californians.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/health_ss/hss_20_foodstamps_anl04.htm

^[PDF] LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Resources Chapter

These reductions have reduced the rate at which the department can com- plete its mapping of flood-prone areas slated for development and jeop- ardizes opportunities to partner with FEMA in modernizing federal flood- plain maps.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/resources/resources_anl04.pdf

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Funding for Transportation Programs

We further recommend that Caltrans be di rected to review local projects' cash flow needs and report to the CTC on a quarterly basis information on the use of state cash for local projects. This would provide oversight to ensure that the progress of local projects is not hindered in the long run by the proposal to shift the management of federal funds from accrual to cash.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/transportation/trans_02_cc_funding_anl04.htm

^[PDF] LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Transportation Chapter

With the di- version of transportation funds to help the General Fund in recent years, Caltrans’ COS workload and staffing have been reduced, pushing out the delivery of TCRP and State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) projects to later years.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/transportation/transportation_anl04.pdf

Highlights of the 2005-06 Analysis

The budget makes no attempt to link these growth rates to anticipated demand under the Master Plan. We recommend the Legislature fund enrollment increases of 2  percent at UC and CSU, and 1.9  percent at CCC.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/05-06_budget_highlights.htm

^[PDF] 05-06_budget_highlights

The budget makes no attempt to link these growth rates to antici- pated demand under the Master Plan. We recommend the Legislature fund enrollment increases of 2 percent at UC and CSU, and 1.9 percent at CCC.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/05-06_budget_highlights.pdf