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Fire Department agrees to modest budget cuts, secures vehicles and pursues behavioral‑health crisis response pilot
Summary
At the Aug. 26 Fire Commission meeting, officials said they negotiated roughly $300,000 in annual reductions (about $600,000 over two years) largely from overtime while securing funding to keep a ladder truck, an engine and command vehicles. The department also described a mayoral $2 million pilot to expand a behavioral‑health crisis response team modeled on EMS‑6.
At its Aug. 26, 2020 meeting, the San Francisco Fire Commission heard a budget overview from Mark Corso, deputy director of Finance and Planning, who said the department and the board’s budget analyst narrowed an initial proposed reduction and reached an agreement the department can absorb without affecting frontline services. "We are essentially done with our process," Corso said, summarizing the negotiations.
The department said the initial analyst reduction proposal had been about $2.2 million and focused on one‑time fleet and equipment allocations. After talks with the…
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