General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $436.4M adopted (FY2017)
In fiscal year 2017, San Francisco budgeted $436.4M for General City (unallocated), 4.3% of city spending, against $436.4M of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.
Adopted budget (FY2017)
$436.4M
Share of city spending
4.3%
Budgeted revenue
$436.4M
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2017
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustments-Uses · Spending−$798.4M
Transfer Adjustments-Sources · Revenue−$798.4M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2017
GFS$971.5MProperty Taxes$182.8MContributions (Ret, HSS, Health Care)$54.7MFines, Forfeitures & Penalties$15.2MUnappropriated Fund Balance$8.6MOther Financing Sources$881,000Intergovernmental Revenues-State$800,000Operating Transfers In$410,000
+ 1 smaller categories
Interest & Investment Income$15,000Adopted vs executed — FY2025, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$591.1M
Executed (operating)$624.5M
Deviation$33.4M (+5.7%)
Every comparable year
2020+1.6%
2021−5.3%
2022+84.1%
2023+3.2%
2024+73.2%
2025+5.7%
Outline = adopted budget · fill = actual spending · ochre = spent above the adopted figure.
Operating funds only, transfer characters and related government units excluded — the one perimeter where adopted and executed are the same thing (measured; capital and multi-year project funds spend across years by design).
This deviation is a perimeter artifact. GEN is the citywide unallocated bucket, not an operating department: items budgeted here are often spent from line departments, so large deviations (for example +73% in FY2024) are a perimeter artifact of where money is parked, not overspending.
Source
Adopted budget lines for department GEN, fiscal year 2017, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗