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Mayor's budget director says May Revise and revenue reports will shape June budget amid uncertainty
Summary
Greg Wagner, the mayor's budget director, told the committee the Governor's May Revise (due May 16) and a controller 9-month revenue report will inform San Francisco's FY2011-12 budget; because state decisions may arrive late, the mayor's June 1 submission will include assumptions about state actions.
Greg Wagner, the mayor's budget director, told the Budget & Finance Committee the Governor's May Revise is due May 16 and that the administration is tracking updated revenue estimates closely. "The Governor's May Revise is due out on the May 16," Wagner said, and the administration expects to begin seeing ideas and indications of changes in the coming week.
Wagner said the mayor must submit a budget by June 1 and that the administration will likely have to make assumptions about the remainder of the state budget because the governor's proposal will be followed by legislative action over the summer. "By the time we have to submit the mayor's budget on June 1, we will not know, with much certainty what's gonna be in the remaining portion of the governor's budget," he told the committee.
The mayor's office said it is preparing a 9-month revenue report with the controller's office that could bring some modestly positive news on current-year revenues, and a draft five-year financial plan will be released next week for committee discussion. Wagner said a supplemental appropriation coming before the Board next week is intended to correct the current fiscal year's budget and operate through July; the mayor's office does not view that supplemental as covering next year's population adjustments related to criminal-justice realignment.
Wagner told supervisors the administration is working closely with the sheriff's department, adult probation, public defender, district attorney and the health department to estimate the local impacts of AB 109 and said the mayor's office will need to make an "educated guess" about jail population assumptions within roughly two weeks so that budget numbers can be prepared for the June submission.
The committee will review the five-year plan draft and the mayor's proposed budget in the coming weeks; supplemental budget adjustments will be considered by the Board of Supervisors next week.
