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Supervisors continue MTA budget amid audit questions and push to restore service cuts
Summary
The Board's Budget & Finance Committee continued consideration of the SFMTA budget to June 2 after extensive testimony on a recent management audit, disputes over distribution of the agency's May 18 response, and debate over how to roll back proposed 10% service cuts toward a 5% restoration using TA funds and labor concessions.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Budget & Finance Committee on May 18 continued action on the Municipal Transportation Agency's budget after a lengthy hearing that mixed procedural disputes over a management-audit response with a substantive debate about service cuts, overtime and potential funding paths.
Chair Supervisor John Avalos opened the discussion after the budget analyst reported recommended PUC reductions. Supervisor Campos raised a procedural concern that a May 18 letter from the SFMTA executive director addressed to Board President David Chu had not been distributed to all supervisors; Budget Analyst Mr. Rose said his office had received the response late Tuesday and the distribution process was unclear. That exchange set the tone for the committee's review of the management audit and of the MTA's proposed operating budget.
SFMTA President Nolan (chair of the MTA board) told the committee the board welcomed outside review but pushed back on some…
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