Department of Finance
915 L Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Executive Order S-09-08 — Additional Current Year Savings

In accordance with Executive Order S-09-08, issued by Governor Schwarzenegger on July 31, the Department of Finance has compiled a report of administrative savings achieved to date. The Executive Order targets administrative savings of $190 million by June 30, 2009. To date, state agencies and departments have achieved savings of $66.6 million.

Savings are displayed by agency and department in five categories:

• Freezing hiring
• Reducing or eliminating overtime
• Reducing, cancelling, disencumbering, or postponing contracts or agreements to lease or purchase equipment
• Reducing, cancelling, disencumbering, or postponing other contracts or agreements, including those for personal services and consulting services
• 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 savings or reductions from state operations appropriations not captured in one of the above

Below are two documents:

• Governor's Executive Order directing departments to achieve additional current year savings (www.gov.ca.gov)
• 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.