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Commission presses for details as SFMTA proposes to cover 87% of SFPD traffic costs
Summary
The Police Commission examined a proposed work order and MOU with the SFMTA that would shift most traffic-company costs (staff estimated $12.9M of ~$14.8M) to the agency and change day-to-day reporting lines; commissioners asked for a draft MOU and city-attorney advice before any vote.
City and SFPD officials presented a proposal to the Police Commission to formalize a work-order/MOU under which the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) would assume the bulk of the traffic company’s costs and responsibilities while police command authority on public-safety incidents would remain with SFPD.
Ken Bukowski, the department’s chief financial officer, summarized the fiscal analysis and described the MTA’s accounting: "MTA believes that approximately 87% of the functions the traffic company performs are transportation related and could be covered by MTA," and using that share the MTA-proposed work order would cover roughly $12.9 million of an estimated $14.8 million total traffic company cost…
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