Department of Finance
915 L Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
 

Executive Order S-01-08 — Additional Current Year Savings

In accordance with Executive Order S-01-08, issued by Governor Schwarzenegger on February 19th, the Department of Finance has compiled a report of administrative savings achieved to date.  The Executive Order targets administrative savings of $100 million by June 30th.  To date, state agencies and departments have achieved savings of $37.149 million.

Savings are displayed by agency and department in five categories:

• Freezing hiring or any other personnel related savings, such as savings from holding a vacant position open
• Reducing, cancelling, disencumbering, or postponing contracts or agreements to lease or purchase equipment
• Reducing, cancelling, disencumbering, or postponing other or agreements, including those for personal services and media and outreach campaigns
• Reducing travel costs by cancelling or postponing discretionary travel for seminars, conferences or training; restricting the size of agency, department, division, and unit meetings requiring travel to essential participants only; using videoconferencing and teleconferencing, and; scheduling meetings at locations at or near headquarters offices.
• Other

Below are two documents:

• Governor's Executive Order directing departments to achieve additional current year savings
• Savings reported by each of the departments funded from the General Fund (.pdf, <1 MB)
  

This page will be updated monthly through the end of the current fiscal year.  Each update will be cumulative showing the total savings for the current and previous months.