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Environment Department outlines $50 million, five‑year strategic delivery plan and flags budget risks
Summary
Department staff presented a draft strategic delivery plan requesting roughly $50 million over five years (about $10 million per year) to implement Climate Action Plan priorities, detailed operating budget differences and warned of general‑fund reductions and timing risks tied to grants and the refuse rate process.
The San Francisco Environment Department presented an outline of its fiscal priorities and a five‑year Strategic Delivery Plan to the Commission on the Environment on Jan. 7, detailing a $50 million request to support building and transportation electrification, small business incentives, workforce development and equity‑focused community engagement.
Charles Sheehan, Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer, and Tyrone Jun, Department Director, joined program managers in a multi‑part presentation that explained the department’s operating budget, funding sources and outstanding grant requests. Joe Salem, the department’s budget manager, said the department’s operating budget is “essentially flat,” and that a draft submission to the mayor’s office would be completed by Feb. 21 with a final proposed city budget due June 1 and Board of Supervisors adoption by July 31.
Staff distinguished between the Annual Appropriation Ordinance (AAO) — the city’s formal new funding request —…
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