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Board advances budget package with restorations, technical adjustments and contingency reporting rule
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the city's fiscal 2010—1 budget package, adding restorations for health and youth programs and adopting a new controller-reporting process that requires the mayor and the board to respond if updated revenue estimates create a mid-year shortfall.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the city's fiscal 2010—11 budget package late Tuesday, adopting a set of restorations to human services and adding language that requires the controller to monitor revenue and notify the mayor and board if updated estimates create a shortfall.
The board approved technical adjustments presented by the mayor's budget office that add roughly $7.8 million in revenue and a second technical adjustment of about $6.8 million that folds a pending supplemental appropriation into the main budget. Greg Wagner, the mayor's budget director, told the board the adjustments were intended to restore programs in the Department of Public Health, youth services, workforce development and public financing of elections.
Why it matters: Supervisors and department directors said the restorations preserve public health and safety programs that city leaders had identified as priorities during months of deficit work. The board also approved a new procedural safeguard in the Annual Appropriation…
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