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Clerk presents FY2009–10 budget options; supervisors back targeted furloughs and ask for CAFR funding review
Summary
Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board, presented a draft FY09/10 budget and contingency options including voluntary furloughs, competitive budget analyst procurement and potential CAFR funding realignment; supervisors supported removing charter‑mandated positions from reduction targets and asked the Controller and city attorney to study legal and operational implications and return within a week.
Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board, presented the office's FY09/10 budget guidance at the Budget & Finance Committee meeting on Jan. 28, urging policy direction on how to meet mayoral reduction targets while protecting charter‑mandated services.
Calvillo said the department's current budget is approximately $1.1 million and that service demands have increased (public information requests up 30%, processed legislation up 13%). She proposed options to meet mayoral reduction goals without cutting charter‑mandated services: a voluntary work furlough program (12 days), competitive procurement for budget analyst services, and realigning the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) expense to the City Services Auditor fund as a potential savings measure.
"With the incorporation of legislative services, another $200,000 could be realized," Calvillo said, and she outlined a combination of measures that she said could meet the mayor's first 12.5% target while leaving charter‑mandated functions intact.
Supervisors broadly endorsed exempting charter‑mandated positions from reduction targets but asked staff to differentiate charter‑mandated positions from charter‑mandated services and to return with legal analysis and timelines. Several supervisors backed the voluntary furlough idea and discussed the feasibility of wage freezes at top levels as a symbolic measure.
Controller's Office staff (Monique Zamuda) and the city attorney were asked to analyze whether CAFR costs could be moved to the City Services Auditor budget without creating conflicts of interest or impairing audit functions; Zamuda said she and Calvillo would meet with the city attorney and return with options.
The committee opened for public comment and heard from budget staff and members of the public urging thorough audits and performance reviews. The committee set a follow‑up hearing for Feb. 4, 2009, asking Calvillo and the Controller to return with answers on mandated positions vs. services, CAFR realignment, and other policy clarifications.
