{"id":306,"date":"2008-04-15T14:38:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/15\/newsom-moves-to-restrict-budget-set-asides\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:38:37","slug":"newsom-moves-to-restrict-budget-set-asides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/306\/newsom-moves-to-restrict-budget-set-asides\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom moves to restrict budget set-asides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/anti_gang_summit_061023\/mw2w0816_std.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nMayor <span class=\"searchterm1\" id=\"high_1\">Gavin<\/span> <span class=\"searchterm2\" id=\"high_2\">Newsom<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>File photo by Luke  Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Communications<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 15, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Today, I submitted to the Board of Supervisors a Resolution declaring it to be official City policy that no new set-asides or other mandatory appropriations be added to the City Charter unless the measure also identifies or provides a specific, adequate new source of funds.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of these set-asides has limited the ability of both the Mayor and Board of Supervisors to effectively respond to budget deficits, and has led to reductions in important public services due to the declining portion of the budget available for discretionary spending.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As a result of these budget set-asides, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors only have discretion over approximately 39 percent of the General Fund portion of the annual budget and 18 percent of the overall City budget.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation would make it the official policy of the City and County of San Francisco that no new set-asides or other mandatory appropriations be added to the City Charter unless the measure also identifies or provides a specific, adequate new source of funds, thus returning greater capacity to the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors to carry out one of their most important functions &ndash; allocating the City&#8217;s limited resources so as best to serve the public interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Gavin Newsom File photo by Luke Thomas From the Mayor&#8217;s Office of Communications April 15, 2008 Today, I submitted to the Board of Supervisors a Resolution declaring it to be official City policy that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[194,4,696],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-budget","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-set-asides"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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