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Mayor's budget director outlines large deficit; hundreds of youth and community groups urge restoring DCYF funding
Summary
With a projected $482.7 million general fund gap and department targets of 20% plus contingency, the Budget & Finance committee heard a two-part afternoon session: (1) mayor's budget director Greg Wagner outlined options including a tentative labor agreement; (2) the youth commission presented priorities and dozens of organizations and young people testified in force urging restoration of after-school, employment and violence-prevention programs.
The Board's full Budget & Finance Committee convened in the afternoon for a sustained hearing on children, youth and family services after an extensive morning agenda. Greg Wagner, the mayor's budget director, said the city faces a general fund deficit of roughly $482.7 million driven by property tax declines, loss of one-time revenue and rising costs. Departments were asked to propose 20% reductions in discretionary general fund support plus a 10% contingency; that exercise alone would produce about $230 million in savings, Wagner said.
Wagner also described a tentative package negotiated with major city labor organizations (the Public Employees Committee) that, if ratified, would yield roughly $50 million a year in general-fund savings through a combination of furlough days, limited "minimum-staffing" days and changes in health-plan mechanics, plus protections and conditional layoffs tied to budget…
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