General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $755.6M adopted (FY2021)
In fiscal year 2021, San Francisco budgeted $755.6M for General City (unallocated), 5.6% of city spending, against $4.9B of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.
Adopted budget (FY2021)
$755.6M
Share of city spending
5.6%
Budgeted revenue
$4.9B
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2021
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$1.6B
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$1.5B
Adopted vs executed — FY2021, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$708.7M
Executed (operating)$671.1M
Deviation−$37.6M (−5.3%)
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 2021, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗