The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - Background In this section, we provide background on the State Library ’s operations and funding, along with describing how local libraries are funded. State Library Oversees Both State Activities and Local Assistance Programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Assessment Key Factors to Consider in Deciding How Much Proposition  2 Funding to Commit Now. Under the Governor ’s budget, the state would commit roughly half of CCC Proposition  2 funding. (The Chancellor ’s Office intends to request about $400  million in Proposition  2 funding for additional projects in 2026-27 and the remainder in 2027-28.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - How much additional funding is needed to address each of the identified workload  issues? If CSAC provides clear answers to these questions by early May, the Legislature could consider approving an associated augmentation as part of its budget closeout activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - This ratio is much higher than the state average. As of March  2024, the average statewide ratio of supervisorial positions (such as SSMIs) to non-supervisorial positions (such as AGPAs) is one-to-six.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - Each year, the Board of Regents determines how much UC contributes to the pension program. For the last ten years, the UC employer contribution rate has increased gradually, from 14.6 percent of payroll in 2015‑16 to 17.72 percent in 2024‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - This is because both agencies already need to collect much of the specified data for other purposes. For example, CDCR already knows which prison spaces it uses for rehabilitative purposes and how much time is scheduled for each rehabilitative program in that  space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Given the non‑Proposition 98 side of the budget is much more constrained at this time than the Proposition 98 side of the budget, supporting CSU and UC enrollment growth is much more challenging than supporting CCC enrollment growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - In addition, it does not specify how the Chancellor ’s Office is to allocate the funds among interested colleges, including how much grant funding each college would be eligible to receive. The administration indicates that the Chancellor ’s Office would have flexibility to make these types of decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - As such, if the Legislature wishes to have substantively more reserves available when responding to downturns or other emergencies, we would recommend also changing the formulas that set aside funds each year to increase how much is saved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - Legislature Decides How to Allocate Proposition 98 Funding. Once the state has calculated the guarantee, the Legislature decides how to allocate the available funding among school and community college programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940