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Before you get too involved please realize that these numbers are what the Legislature authorized and the Governor approved, not what California government actually spent during the fiscal year.

The California Constitution codifies the enacted budget as a hard limit with the exception of supplemental emergency expenditures at the Governor's discretion . The Legislature and the Governor treat them as general guidelines. This common disregard for the law was one of the chief reasons that the budget got into a significant structural imbalance under the Davis administration.

I had initially pulled the numbers I posted some time ago. I am now finding better sources. At the time, I couldn't find expenditures, so I posted the "enacted" value for the year for a rough comparison. The exact source of that info is here:

http://www.lao.ca.gov/2003/spend_plan_03/1003_spend_plan_main.html#budget%20totals

"Total State Spending

The state spending plan for 2003-04 authorizes total state expenditures from all funds of $100.9 billion. As indicated in Figure 1, this total includes budgetary spending of $93.5 billion, reflecting $71.1 billion from the General Fund and $22.3 billion from special funds."

There is also a table that includes the values I posted, using the term "enacted".

Thank you for the explanations. I always learn alot form your posts.

Maybe you can help on this one. I pulled down the pivot tables from the DOF site linked from this page:

http://www.lao.ca.gov/LAOMenus/lao_menu_economics.aspx

State of California Expenditures,
1984-85 to 2004-05 (Updated May 2004)

From the database, I pulled the following expenditure numbers :



DOF Agency	                               2003-04       2004-05
---------------------------------------      -----------   -----------
Legislative, Judicial and Executive            2,548,255     2,724,858
State and Consumer Services                      471,221       507,976
Business, Transportation and Housing             516,282       376,453
Trade and Commerce Agency                          6,227             0
Resource Agency                                  966,983       973,843
California Environmental Protection               90,819        68,839
Health and Human Services                     22,967,304    25,195,608
Youth and Adult Corrections                    5,423,717     6,214,700
K-12 Education                                29,778,374    33,920,871
Higher Education                               8,795,141     9,264,316
Labor and Workforce Development Agency           112,041        84,732
General Government                             5,947,337    -1,754,500
                                             -----------   -----------
Total General Funds                           77,623,701    77,577,696
                                             -----------   -----------

Special Funds                                 19,432,330    22,240,915
Bond Funds                                    10,258,167     2,978,650
                                             -----------   -----------
Combined                                     107,314,198   102,797,261

In retrospect, I probably left out the bond funds in my prior comparison.

But this doesn't look right either.
I am assuming the $102,797,261 reflects the May Budget Revision (Arnold's $103 Billion).
They include as expenditures in '03/'04 the bond sales for costs that were recorded and resulted in the deficit from prior years?

Also, how can they run "General Government for a negative $2 Billion??
Is that where the shell game landed?
That would then convert to an "$8 Billion savings" for that one line item alone?
And K-12 and HHS certainly don't seem to be hurt to much from the (cough) "reductions".