Daniel Lurie’s Wrong-Answers-only Budget - The San Francisco Standard

Daniel Lurie’s wrong-answers-only budget - The San Francisco Standard

Does he squander goodwill with necessary cuts? Or kick the can down the road with accounting trickery? Either way, budget season may end in tears.

San Francisco Mayor Lurie To Spare SFPD, Other Public Safety From Budget Cuts – California Globe

According to an updated San Francisco city budget plan on Tuesday, several city agencies will get to avoid the 15% mandatory cuts meant to eliminate the $876 million budget deficit, with the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD), the district attorney’s office and the public defender’s office all maintain funding amounts from the previous year. Earlier this year, new revised budgetary totals found that San …

Could a New York mayoral candidate have a solution to SF, state budget crisis?

Mayor Daniel Lurie and Gov. Gavin Newsom are facing budget crises that threaten basic services, and as they prepare for brutal cuts, they are also facing a serious adversary: Organized labor. In rallies at City Hall and at the last Board of Regents meeting, broad coalitions of local and statewide union members have opposed the deep cuts that have already impacted essential programs and may lead to layoffs. On May 14, more than 1,000 city workers…