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Mayor Newsom signs $6.6 billion budget after board restores health and human services funding
Summary
Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the FY 2009–10 city budget at a ceremony with the Board of Supervisors, highlighting preservation of public safety and health services after months of negotiations and add‑backs totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the city'and'county budget on the Board of Supervisors'dais after the board and the mayor reached compromises that restored funding for several social services programs and avoided layoffs for teachers, nurses, police and firefighters.
The budget the mayor signed allocates about $6.586 billion in city funds; officials said roughly $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion of that is discretionary. Newsom and board leaders said the city navigated a multihundred‑million dollar shortfall through midyear adjustments and a series of add‑backs negotiated with supervisors and department heads.
The budget process began more than a year earlier and included an $87.9 million midyear adjustment and multiple…
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