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SFPD budget briefing: salaries dominate and cuts risk reduced field staffing
Summary
Interim CFO Deborah Landis presented the SFPD 2011–12 budget: a $476 million base with roughly 90% for salaries and fringe. The department is working to meet a mayoral 10% reduction target largely through givebacks and administrative cuts; chief warns deeper contingency could require layoffs and end academy classes.
City and police officials told the commission that most of the San Francisco Police Department budget is personnel costs and that the department must find $8.5 million to meet the mayor’s 10% reduction target after previously returning about 2.5%.
Deborah Landis, interim SFPD chief financial officer, said the department’s base budget for 2011–12 is about $476 million, of which roughly $375 million is general fund. She…
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