A coalition of dozens of nonprofit, labor and community groups organizing to push back against a range of proposed cuts to San Francisco’s budget are warning the soon-to-be-finalized two-year plan sets the stage for even more drastic slashing down the line.
A key budget committee of San Francisco supervisors signed off on a $15.9 billion budget late last month that restored tens of millions of dollars worth of cuts from Mayor London Breed ’s proposal, which was released at the end of May.
The mayor’s budget seeks to balance a $780 million deficit over the next two years, a funding shortfall that has developed as post-pandemic economic shocks batter once-reliable funding sources for The City. When all was said and done, the proposal released from the final day of budget-committee deliberations June 26 reversed roughly $33 million in cuts for the upcoming year. Such funding restorations are a routine part of the annual budgeting process.
The People’s Budget Coalition estimated those cuts total roughly $100 million, a figure that the group said it painstakingly compiled using publicly available information as well as correspondence with city agencies. U.S. Supreme Court justices cite The City in homelessness ruling The decision addressed constitutional limits on cities’ ability to address the widespread issue
Still, People’s Budget Coalition organizer argue that far more budget savings could have been found. For example, they have demanded that the mayor do more to reign in the salaries of high-earning city employees.
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