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Committee adopts clarifying amendments and continues contentious set-aside reform to allow more community consultation
Summary
Supervisor Tang introduced a charter amendment to pause growth of voter-adopted set-asides when a projected deficit exceeds $200 million and to return certain unspent funds to the general fund with capital and children's-fund exceptions; the committee adopted clarifications after lengthy public testimony and continued the item for further refinement.
Supervisor Tang presented Item 8, a charter amendment aimed at set-aside and baseline reform. The proposal contains two core provisions: (1) when the city's projected budget deficit exceeds $200 million at the point of the joint report, planned growth in certain voter-adopted set-asides would be suspended (not the base amounts already in the charter), and (2) unspent baseline and set-aside funds could be returned to the general…
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