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Public Works Commission approves two-year budget as city faces widening shortfalls
Summary
The Public Works Commission approved a two-year operating and capital budget for FY27 and FY28 after presentations noted a growing structural deficit, mayoral directives to cut general-fund spending, and potential cost pressures from a pending "Clean Streets and Fair Wages Act" that could raise costs for nonprofit workforce grants.
The San Francisco Public Works Commission voted Feb. 12 to approve the department's two-year operating and capital budgets amid warnings about large projected shortfalls and a pending local ordinance that could increase costs to nonprofit grant programs.
Bruce Robertson, Public Works' director of finance and administration, presented the department's proposed budgets: $441.8 million for fiscal year 2026''27 and $361.0 million for fiscal year 2027''28. Robertson said the current-year Public Works baseline is about $428.5 million and described an ongoing structural mismatch between expenditures and revenues across the city.
"Expenditure growth is $1.8 billion while revenue growth is $617 million," Robertson told commissioners, saying those trends produce estimated deficits of just under $300 million for FY27 and about $640 million for FY28. He said the mayor's budget office has instructed departments to cut $400 million in citywide general-fund ongoing expenditures and to reduce work orders and overhead by 10 percent.
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