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Rec and Park warns of two-year deficit as PUC rate changes and lost baseline funds bite
Summary
Department finance staff told commissioners Rec and Park faces a projected $5 million deficit in FY26–27 and larger gaps thereafter, driven by changes in PUC stormwater/sewer and water rates, reduced baseline Prop B funding and rising health-care costs; commissioners pressed for a joint meeting with the PUC.
Recreation and Park department finance staff presented a two-year budget outlook that projects a $5 million shortfall in fiscal year 2026–27 and a larger structural gap over subsequent years, with the department’s five-year plan showing growing pressure from utility and pension costs.
Antonio Guerra, the department’s director of administration and finance, told the Jan. 8 commission meeting that San Francisco faces a citywide structural shortfall and that three changes in particular are driving pressure on the parks budget: the loss of a guaranteed Prop B…
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