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Committee advances interim budget items and hears department briefings on parks, libraries, commissions and housing
Summary
The committee forwarded interim budget and appropriations items to the full board, adopted Budget Legislative Analyst recommendations on administrative provisions, and heard presentations from the California Academy of Sciences, Civil Service Commission, Human Rights Commission, Department on the Status of Women, Ethics Commission, Law Library, Rent Board and Board of Appeals about budgets and programs.
The Budget & Finance Committee moved multiple interim appropriation and administrative items to the full Board of Supervisors and heard extended presentations from several departments and commissions on program priorities, budget requests and workload trends.
Controller Ben Rosenfield described the purpose of the interim budget — an administrative measure that keeps government operating for the one‑month period at the start of the fiscal year — and said the committee should forward the interim appropriation and related salary ordinance so the city can make payments while the July budget process concludes. The Budget Legislative Analyst (BLA) asked for administrative amendments, including a requirement that the controller report by June 1, 2018 on operational savings allocated to the property tax system replacement project and that board approval be required for allocations from the sugar‑sweetened beverage tax. The committee adopted the BLA recommendations and forwarded the items as a committee report.
California Academy of Sciences: John Foley, executive…
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