California’s state budget has fluctuated wildly in the past several years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, California saw the largest surpluses in state history, including anunprecedented $31 billion surplus in 2022-2023. However a weakening economy, a massive loss of the state population and bus...
The past two years have seen budgets withdeficits papered overwith direct and indirect borrowing, tapped emergency reserves, vague assumptions of future spending cuts, and accounting gimmicks. For instance, the current budget“saves” several billion dollarsby counting next June’s state payroll as a...
Over the last 30 years, California dejure (legislated) mental health policy has been based on deinstitutionalization and outpatient care through community mental health systems. But by the end of the 1970s, there was a growing concern over whether deinstitutionalization had successfully occurred, ...
Moreover, though the Constitution and statutes encourage maximum local program and spending authority consistent with State law (Cal. Const., art. IX, § 14; Ed. Code, §§ 14000, 35160, 35160.1), the degree of supervision voluntarily retained by the State over the common school system is h...
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So if you want information on how any governmental body operates in the state of California you can simply request it under the CPRA. This includes stuff like budgets, bidding processes for contracts, salaries of government employees and even government records on UFO sightings....
The George Floyd killing and subsequent 2020 protests demanding defunding the police, Harris was supportive of the defunding. “This whole movement is about rightly saying we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” Harris said in a 2020...
eliminatingthe⅔ requirementsforbudgetsandtaxes,aswellastorestrictthescopeoffutureballot initiativestoexcludebudgetappropriationsandrevenuerestrictions.Withsucha dealinplace,thestatewouldbeabletogetsomeadditionalfinancingtocoversome oftheshort-andmedium-termneeds,asitworkedoutitslong-termsolvency.So, whatarethe...
"Astronomical housing costs are straining family budgets and stressing employees who can’t afford to live where they work. That's unacceptable." On Thursday, California Treasurer John Chiang urged state lawmakers to quickly pass the package as well as to increase the general obligation bond...