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Committee forwards $89 million intra‑budget overtime package to full Board
Summary
The committee approved amendments and forwarded an ordinance that reallocates roughly $89 million within the current budget to cover increased overtime across police, fire, sheriff, emergency management and the SFPUC; the ordinance relies largely on salary savings and some new ambulance revenue for fire.
The Budget & Appropriations Committee on March 20 unanimously approved an amended ordinance to reallocate funds within the city’s current budget to cover rising overtime costs across multiple departments and forwarded the ordinance to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
The ordinance shifts approximately $90 million within departmental budgets (with $4.8 million in ambulance service revenue counted as new revenue for the Fire Department) to increase overtime budgets for the San Francisco Police Department, Fire Department, Sheriff’s Office, Department of Emergency Management and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). The Budget and Legislative Analyst…
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