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Clerk of the Board presents proposed FY15-16 and FY16-17 budgets; LAFCO and COLA requests highlighted
Summary
The committee heard the Clerk of the Board's proposed budgets for FY15-16 and FY16-17, including a current-year budget of about $13.5 million, a $149,000 general-fund request for LAFCO, and a proposed 3.25% COLA for the budget and legislative analyst contract; the committee deferred final action to allow the clerk to appear in person.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee reviewed the Clerk of the Board—s proposed two-year budget and asked for guidance on several open items, including LAFCO funding and a requested cost-of-living adjustment for the budget and legislative analyst contract.
Andy Bohannon Jones, administration and finance manager for the Department (presenting on behalf of the clerk), said the department—s current-year budget is approximately $13.5 million, roughly 75 percent of which funds employee salaries and fringes. He outlined proposed personnel adjustments (position substitutions and lower attrition targets), non-personnel changes (training stipends and leases for multifunction machines), a formal request for a $149,000 general-fund appropriation for LAFCO, and a 3.25 percent COLA requested by the budget and legislative analyst that would increase the analyst contract by roughly $50,213 in FY15-16 and annualize to a larger amount in FY16-17.
Supervisors questioned historical LAFCO funding levels and how the city—s community choice aggregation (CCA) funds from the PUC interact with the request; Jason Bridal, LAFCO staff, explained LAFCO maintains two separate funds (general fund and a CCA special fund) and that the MOU with PUC was scheduled to end this fiscal year pending possible extension. Public commenter Thomas Picariello urged earlier online publication of budget proposals and called for greater funding for the Sunshine Task Force, including televising its proceedings and allocating a deputy city attorney.
Chair Farrell proposed continuing the Clerk's budget item to the call of the chair so the clerk can attend in person; the committee agreed and continued the item without objection.
