Right now, local agencies can pick up $100 for processing a CCW app.
Even if you doubled that, it wouldn't make any difference...the departments that are acting like they are now (zero-issue, or corrupt/racist/cronyist) aren't going to change.
And we don't have the political capital to pass shall-issue. IF Arnold is hugely successful with the economy over the next 2/3 years, and the GOP manages a comeback in the legislature, then it becomes thinkable.
But.
There are things we can maybe do now. One possibility is to set up "oversight" somehow, possibly based on the Connecticut model (denial appeals panel), or a model where the panel can only act when presented with evidence of misconduct (which God knows there's enough of!). The situation today is that the courts won't act unless there's absolutely proven racism...plain illegality or cronyism, they don't care. There are high-level influencial Dems in the legislature who know that the CCW system we have today is just utter doggie doodoo and might support some sort of oversight program. If done right, and complaints of illegality/racism/corruption and such get investigated properly, we'll generate the data we need for more complete reforms down the road.
Can't say more yet.