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Finance director: no frontline staffing cuts in mayor—s proposed budget; facilities and equipment funding included

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Mark Corso, the department's deputy director for finance and planning, told the commission the mayor's proposed budget preserved frontline suppression and EMS staffing, included $3 million for equipment and $4.1 million for facilities, and that the department negotiated smaller reductions with Board staff.

Mark Corso, deputy director of finance and planning for the San Francisco Fire Department, told the Fire Commission on Aug. 13 that the Mayor's proposed budget preserved frontline staffing for suppression, EMS and community paramedicine and kept the department's hiring plan intact.

Corso said the proposed budget included an equipment allocation of roughly $3 million and approximately $4.1 million for facilities in the next fiscal year (an increase of about $1.5 million from the prior year). He also described a $500,000 one-time allocation in year two of the proposed…

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