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Historic Preservation Commission unanimously recommends Planning Department budget, cites $5 million surplus
Summary
The commission voted 6–0 Feb. 3 to recommend approval of the Planning Department's proposed FY2016–18 budget and work program, highlighting a roughly $5 million fee revenue surplus, proposed new preservation and legacy-business staff, and one-time IT and preservation investments.
The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission on Feb. 3 unanimously recommended that the Planning Department's proposed fiscal 2016–18 budget and work program be approved by the Planning Commission.
The commission voted 6–0 to forward a favorable recommendation after staff presented revenue and staffing projections. John Grama, Planning Department staff, told the commission the department was "seeing close to a $5,000,000 surplus this year" and proposed using part of that revenue to add a legacy-business staff position. Tom DeSanto, who led the budget presentation, said the department is projecting continued permit-volume…
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