The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - As Figure  2 shows, the number of applicants exceeded 10,000 in 2024-25. Despite this level of demand, California Volunteers shared that at its current funding level, the program cannot expand the number of slots for Fellows.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Integrated Contact Center This project seeks to modernize the department ’s contact center through (among other improvements) additional self ‑service options, enhanced voice recognition, and multi ‑language functionality.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - For each workstream, the contract outlines a series of deliverables or milestones that the contractor would be required to meet over the course of a 28-week period as well as the amount of payment it would receive in exchange for doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—California State Payroll System

May 14, 2018 - SCO Would Complete PAL Process With Requested Resources. Based on the Governor ’s request, SCO now anticipates completing Stage 2 of PAL in March  2020, about 1.5 years later than previously expected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3836

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Data do not seem to support the department ’s explanation for why it is unable to use salary savings to cover some costs as it has in the past. As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement [Publication Details]

Mar 11, 2025 - This post contains assessments and recommendations related to two proposed budget augmentations: the College Corps program and a new Belonging Campaign.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - For example, when CDTFA seizes a retailer ’s noncompliant products, this counts as one seizure, regardless of the total amount of product seized. Can the administration provide workload measures that account for some of these limitations?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2020 Census: Potential Impacts on California

Dec 13, 2018 - Under the Constitution, each state is guaranteed one seat in the House and the remaining 385 seats are apportioned based on the Census population counts. Based on the 2010 Census, California has the largest delegation of Representatives in the House with 53 seats —accounting for 12  p ercent of the seats.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3909

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - The hearings also can be used to set expectations of DOF so that the Legislature can hold DOF accountable whenever it identifies the specific savings by funding source and program. Ask Each Department Questions to Better Understand Identified Savings and Their Effects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2017-18 Budget: Secretary of State Spring Finance Letter

Apr 25, 2017 - In 2007, the Secretary of State sued a vendor for selling to counties voting systems with modifications not yet authorized by the Secretary of State. In 2009, the state and a vendor reached a settlement agreement whereby the vendor provided the state $3.25  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3656