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Supervisors press mayor's office on layoffs, vacant positions, jail pods and funding assumptions; budget review continued
Summary
The committee spent the bulk of the meeting on a broad review of the mayor's FY 2008-09 balancing plan. Staff described a mix of one-time fixes, vacant-position deletions and enterprise fund shifts; supervisors requested extensive follow-up on net position counts, jail pod closures, Prop H treatment, mental-health bed changes and capital project details. The item was continued for next week's hearings.
Greg Wagner of the mayor's budget office presented a high-level summary of the administration's approach to balancing the FY 2008-09 budget, listing line items that include CPI/contract adjustments, elimination of vacant positions, midyear cuts, enterprise fund cost shifts and one-time uses of reserve and fund balance.
"This is our, sort of summary of the deficit and the, individual line items," Wagner said, describing how line-item changes and enterprise fund reassignments contributed to the proposed balance. He told the committee that 300 vacant positions were highlighted because they had been announced earlier, but that position changes are mixed across the budget.
Supervisors pressed the mayor's staff and controller representatives for clarity on several topics:
- Net position changes: Controller and mayor's office staff said the mayor's proposed budget shows a net…
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