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Supervisors back budget-transparency reforms, require department hearings and a public budget website
Summary
The Rules Committee advanced two measures aimed at increasing public scrutiny of San Francisco’s $12 billion budget: renaming the Budget & Finance Committee to Budget & Appropriations and requiring departments to hold hearings and publish budget documents before submitting proposals to the mayor and controller.
Supervisor Feuer introduced a package of changes Wednesday to make San Francisco’s budget process more transparent and to expand public input earlier in the budget cycle. The Rules Committee recommended the measures to the full Board of Supervisors.
The legislation would rename the five-member Budget and Finance Committee as the Budget and Appropriations Committee, extend the committee’s tenure to begin meeting in February, and require departments to solicit public input and hold at least one public hearing on their budget proposals before submitting them to the mayor and controller.…
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