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Rules Committee weighs expanded rainy-day withdrawals, votes amendment to prioritize health services
Summary
The Rules Committee debated a charter amendment to expand withdrawals from San Francisco’s rainy day reserve to soften sweeping budget cuts; after heated debate the committee approved an amendment to limit uses toward mitigating cuts to health and human services and continued the measure for further work.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee spent a large portion of its meeting debating a proposed charter amendment to allow the city to draw more deeply on its rainy day reserve to blunt an anticipated multihundred‑million‑dollar budget shortfall.
Chair Chris Daley said the measure would permit the city to withdraw up to 100% of the current rainy day balance in certain extreme years, capped at 20% of a projected deficit, and require that one‑third of any withdrawal be passed on to…
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