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Mayor’s set‑aside charter amendment prompts debate over future ballot budgeting and trade‑offs
Summary
A mayoral proposal to require funding sources for new multiyear ballot set‑asides and to cap growth and sunset set‑asides drew sustained questioning from supervisors over potential conflicts with other mayoral ballot items and whether the measure meaningfully changes existing law; the mayor’s liaison urged the measure as a long‑term reform after a large deficit.
The Rules Committee heard a presentation and questions on the mayor’s proposal to send to voters either a charter amendment or ballot ordinance (Items 9 and 10) that would require new multiyear ballot set‑asides to identify a new funding source, limit annual growth to 2% and sunset the set‑aside within 10 years. The proposal would also expand the Controller’s statement to require analysis of tradeoffs and how a set‑aside affects other budget…
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