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Police commission OKs $1.18 million shift to overtime and approves SFPD budget submission
Summary
The San Francisco Police Commission approved a $1,176,768 intra-departmental budget modification to move salaries and fringe savings into overtime to cover mutual aid costs from North Bay fires, and approved the SFPD’s FY2018–19 proposed budget for submission to the mayor.
The San Francisco Police Commission on Feb. 7 approved a budget modification to reallocate $1,176,768 from salaries and fringe savings to an overtime line item to cover mutual aid overtime costs tied to the North Bay fires and approved the department’s preliminary 2018–19 budget for submission to the mayor.
Director Catherine Maguire told the commission the overtime costs are expected to be reimbursed by FEMA and the state but cautioned that reimbursement can take years. “Once we submit the billing…after they have reviewed it and certified that it has all of the documentation necessary,” the city will be reimbursed, she said. Maguire said the reallocation is a timing and cash-flow fix, not new revenue.
Commissioner Mazuko moved to approve the modification and Commissioner Hirsch seconded; with no public comment the motion passed.
Maguire then presented the SFPD’s proposed FY 2018–19 budget, describing a roughly $611 million baseline on the sources side and explaining the department’s larger $623 million expenditure projection in the deck. She said about $481 million of the budget comes from the general fund, roughly $52 million from state sources and nearly $61 million from the Airport Enterprise Fund. Personnel costs make up about 86 percent of the department’s spending, she said.
The proposal requests funds for new vehicles (the department asked for 169 replacements, an estimated $10.4 million), capital outlay tied to the Forensic Services build-out ($6.5 million), and ongoing IT and case-management projects. Maguire also said the department will include funding for TASER implementation in the Feb. 21 submission and estimated a TASER-related request of $3.5 million (about $500,000 for IT integration and $3 million for equipment phased over multiple years).
A member of the public questioned whether the Board of Supervisors was aware of mutual aid protocols; Maguire replied that supervisors were briefed and the reallocation is intended to prevent a fiscal shortfall while reimbursement is pending. After public comment, the commission voted to accept the budget submission and the overtime reallocation.
What happens next: the department will file the preliminary budget with the mayor and controller on the charter-mandated Feb. 21 deadline; the controller and mayor will review and the Board of Supervisors will consider the budget in June.
