LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Revenue Limits

Second, we are not aware of any analysis showing that historical di fferences in revenue limit funding levels reflect different local needs for general purpose funds. However, given the difficult fiscal situations currently faced by many districts in the state (including those that would not qualify to receive equalization funding), we recommend the Legislature delay equalizing revenue limits to future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/education/ed_07_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: California Gambling Control Commission (0855)

Tribes agreeing to these compacts can operate slot machines, certain card games, and other types of gambling in California. Curr ently, 54 tribes operate around 55,000 slot machines. About one-half of these machines are in casinos in San Diego County and Riverside County.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/general_govt/gen_06_0855_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Board of Equalization (0860)

As a result of the cap mechanism referred to ab ove, the General Fund subsidizes certain STJs for administrative costs; for these STJs the link to actual costs is even more tenuous. The complexity of the costing model has made its results increasingly difficult to explain to local agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/general_govt/gen_07_0860_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Franchise Tax Board (1730)

Other components-such as increased data collection, maximizing audit links to the state’s other tax agencies (BOE and EDD), and examining the expanded application of withholding-would generate additional revenues in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/general_govt/gen_09_1730_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Improving Long-Term Care

Shift in Spending Linked to Caseload Trends. The increased share of spending going to community care is mainly the result of efforts to divert individuals from institutional care by providing greater choices for community care.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_02_anl06.html

^[PDF] Highlights of the 2006-07 Analysis

We recommend that any funding for equalization be linked to legislation amending the current allocation formula which, if unchanged, would erode the state’s equalization efforts over time. (Analysis, page E-257.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/highlights/analysis_highlights_022206.pdf

^[PDF] The 2007-08 Budget: Perspectives and Issues

. • Link Provider Rates to Objective Measures. Provider rates for state programs are often set on an ad hoc basis with increases or decreases depending on the state’s near‑term fiscal condition. In‑ Major Expenditure Proposals in the 200 -0 Budget 3 stead, the state could link provider rates, such as those for regional center vendors, to objective measures
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/2007_pandi/Pandi_07.pdf

^[PDF] .)  Rethinking the Future of Child Welfare Automation  The

.)  Rethinking the Future of Child Welfare Automation  The budget proposes to continue with the development of a new CWS com- puter system at a total cost of $247 million. We recommend canceling the proposed new system and instead updating the existing Child Welfare Ser- vices Case Management System (CWS/CMS) to provide required functional- ity, resulting in savings of $184 million over the next seven years.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/highlights/pandi_highlights_022108.pdf

^[PDF] 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Judicial and Criminal Justice

This recent decline in the juvenile offender popu- lation is primarily the result of the enactment of Chapter 175, Statutes of 2007 (SB 81, Com- mittee on Budget and Fiscal Review). Under this statute, non-violent and nonserious offend- ers are no longer being accepted into state fa- cilities and are instead remaining at the local Growth in Inmate and Parole Population Figure
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/crim_justice/crimjust_anl09.pdf

^[PDF] 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Proposition 98 Education Programs

(Though some savings also would be gener‑ ated in non‑CalWORKs child care, the adminis‑ tration assumes the savings would be redirected to funding additional child care slots.) Also Proposes to Increase Family Fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/education/ed_anl09.pdf