{"id":2862,"date":"2011-06-01T23:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T07:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2019-03-26T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:19:43","slug":"mayor-lee-presents-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2862\/mayor-lee-presents-budget-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Lee Presents Budget Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/lee_budget_proposal_20110601\/_w2w5254_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee presented a balanced budget yesterday.  Included in the proposal is a 0.5 percent local sales tax extension. Photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 2, 2011<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee yesterday presented his $6.83 billion proposed budget for the next fiscal year, balanced by closing a $306 million deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This proposed balanced budget is about building a foundation to keep San Francisco moving in the right direction and keeping our City safe, solvent and successful,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;While our budget and economy are beginning to rebound, this budget includes a number of difficult decisions and sacrifices. We are not expanding programs\u2014we are scaling back and fighting to keep services stable. We cannot forget that we are asking for real sacrifices from our City employees and their families to restore stability to the budget, and once again they have stepped up to help their city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though some layoffs are to be expected, the budget was balanced without  the need for \u201cmassive\u201d layoffs, Lee said.  Police and firefighters will  not be subject to any layoffs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->To help balance the budget, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110906233039\/http:\/\/sfmayor.org\/index.aspx?page=415\">Lee\u2019s proposed budget<\/a> includes $106 million in reductions to city departments, including $32 million from the Department of Public Health, $26 million in salary increase deferrals and $14 million in cuts to Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news is our City is growing: the economy is beginning to recover, the population is growing and unemployment is down from over 10 percent last January to 8.5 percent today,\u201d Lee said. \u201cIt is critical that we put forth a balanced, responsible budget that can help us capitalize on these trends now and in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite a more positive economic outlook, the City will continue to face budget deficits in upcoming years unless pension reforms are enacted to correct a structural imbalance between revenues and ballooning employee pension costs.\u00a0 Two competing pension reform measures to correct the imbalance are currently being considered for placement on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of State funding cuts, Lee said he will propose a half-percent sales tax extension which is projected to raise as much as $30 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would only take effect if the sales reduction goes through and the state tax is unable to be extended,\u201d Lee said.  \u201cThis is a safety valve. It is one that will protect core city services against the uncertainty in Sacramento.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local tax measures must be approved by a two-thirds majority of voters.<\/p>\n<p>District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim said she appreciated Mayor Lee\u2019s efforts to make the budget process more collaborative and transparent and was hopeful cuts to programs that impact the most vulnerable will be restored during the budget process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are obviously still cuts that we would like to see restored,\u201d Kim said, \u201cbut I\u2019m really happy with the first iteration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell said he generally does not support taxes, \u201cbut if we\u2019re protecting to make sure that we don\u2019t have any unintended consequences from a lack of funding from California, and we face a massive budget shortfall unexpectedly, it\u2019s something to consider and I\u2019ll do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Supervisors will give final approval to the budget at the end of July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/lee_budget_proposal_20110601\/_w2w5243_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Lee presented his balanced budget proposal to the Board of Supervisors and department heads.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/lee_budget_proposal_20110601\/_w2w5239_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/lee_budget_proposal_20110601\/_w2w5196_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/lee_budget_proposal_20110601\/_w2w5265_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help balance the budget, Lee\u2019s proposed budget includes $106 million in reductions to city departments, including $32 million from the Department of Public Health, $26 million in salary increase deferrals and $14 million in cuts to Human Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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