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Supervisors hear grim budget outlook; departments outline deep cuts and children's services reductions
Summary
At a May 6, 2009 Budget & Finance Committee hearing, the mayor's budget office and controller presented a $438.1 million joint shortfall and a 9-month report showing $10.8 million in current-year revenue weakness offset by federal stimulus funds; departments outlined steep reductions to recreation, children's services and human services and the Board debated language on possible firefighter staffing changes.
San Francisco's Budget and Finance Committee opened its May 6 hearing with bleak numbers and hard choices for the coming fiscal year.
Nani Kallaretti, the mayor's budget director, told the committee "The joint report shortfall is 438,100,000.0," and outlined the administration's balancing assumptions: drawing half of the projected $98 million rainy-day fund, a Prop H payment deferral to the schools worth roughly $15 million, $8 million from a renegotiated contract and an estimated $90 million in labor contributions. Kallaretti warned that state actions ' including a suspension of Prop 1A ' could create an additional one-time hit she estimated at "$80 to $100 million." The mayor's office also signaled the need for more department-level savings to close the gap.
Controller Ben Rosenfield provided the board's 9-month projection, reporting an additional $10.8 million of revenue weakness in the current fiscal year but noting $35.8 million in…
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