The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 2, 2024 - To address the budget problem, the budget also makes several other funding changes: Postpones Infrastructure Funding for the City of Fresno. Last year ’s budget allocated $250  million for public infrastructure investments in the City of Fresno.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4934

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 2, 2024 - To address the budget problem, the budget also makes several other funding changes: Postpones Infrastructure Funding for the City of Fresno. Last year ’s budget allocated $250  million for public infrastructure investments in the City of Fresno.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4934/governors-office-of-emergency-services

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - This analogy can be easily extended to the state ’s reserve policy, which can fluctuate from year to year but should be constructed by examining a very long ‑time horizon in order to facilitate the stable provision of  services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

The 2022-23 Budget: State Appropriations Limit Implications

Mar 30, 2022 - (As of 2018 ‑19, cities and counties had over $150  billion in collective room under their limits. As a result, changing this definition is unlikely to result in very many local governments exceeding their limits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4583

The Definition of Qualified Capital Outlay for the State Appropriations Limit

Feb 18, 2022 - If the homes were scattered throughout a city, however, we think the argument is more tenuous. For this reason, in the case of vehicles, we think a vehicle represents an asset —not a fleet —and so the value of an individual vehicle must exceed $100,000 in order to count as an exclusion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4547

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 5, 2020 - Cities. The budget provides $ 500  m illion to cities for homelessness, public health, public safety, and other services to combat the COVID ‑ 19 p andemic. Of this total, $ 225  m illion is provided to cities with populations greater than 300, 000 t hat did not receive a direct federal allocation and $ 275  m illion is provided to cities with a population of less than 300,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4263

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - Ordered by bill number. Major Features of the 2024‑25 Spending Plan This section briefly describes the major spending actions in the 2024 ‑25 budget package, including some actions that were part of the early action package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

Flexible Funding to California in the American Rescue Plan

Mar 23, 2021 - Cities and counties will receive fiscal recovery funds based on a set of formulas that considers the jurisdiction ’s population, among other factors. The federal government will distribute funds directly to all counties and cities with populations greater than 50,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4407

The 2024-25 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2024 - For example, in 2026 ‑27, revenues would need to be at least $11  billion higher than the May Revision forecast in order for the budget to be balanced. Overall, this figure shows that the state budget is likely balanced over the next couple of years, but a budget problem becomes more likely in later years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4907

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Nov 8, 2023 - The program provides funding to local “host partner ” agencies —including cities, universities, tribes, and community-based organizations —to hire individuals who are at least 18 years of age to serve as fellows for up to 11 months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4814