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Rules Committee advances package of charter budget amendments, tables or continues several items
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The San Francisco Rules Committee reviewed a package of charter amendments on budget reform — including two-year budgeting, MOU deadlines, and financial policy thresholds — forwarding selected changes to the full Board and tabling or continuing other items after debate over scope and timing.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on Monday reviewed a package of charter amendments intended to reform the city’s budget process, forwarding some changes to the full Board while tabling or continuing several companion items.
Vice Chair Carmen Chu presented a set of proposed amendments to a ballot charter measure covering five main areas: the vote threshold required to adopt financial policies; timing and process for a two-year budget cycle; definitions for what constitutes a “significant” revenue or expenditure change; language on set-asides; and procedures for coordinating memoranda of understanding (MOUs) so that mayoral and Board budget decisions can account for labor agreements. “These changes were proposed based on the conversation last Thursday,” Chu said while walking the committee through the package.
The deputy city attorney and the city’s labor-relations manager described several specific edits proposed for the MOU sections. Under the changes, the deadline in subsection K of charter section A8409-4 would shift from an…
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