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Planning Department unveils budget equity pilot as it outlines steep COVID-era cuts
Summary
At its Jan. 21 meeting the San Francisco Planning Commission heard a briefing on the Planning Department’s proposed FY2021–23 budget and a new pilot budget‑equity assessment that shifted resources toward a Community Equity division while the city faces a projected $653 million shortfall.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on Jan. 21 heard a presentation of the Planning Department’s proposed two‑year budget and a pilot budget‑equity assessment that staff say is intended to shift resources toward communities hit hardest by the pandemic.
Director Tom Hillis told commissioners that regional planning work on Plan Bay Area 2050 — and an apparent reallocation of regional household growth to San Francisco — has sharpened the department’s focus on equity. The office presented a new Community Equity division and a pilot equity tool designed to identify work‑program areas and contracts that serve priority issue areas,…
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