General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $636.3M adopted (FY2022)
In fiscal year 2022, San Francisco budgeted $636.3M for General City (unallocated), 4.8% of city spending, against $5.2B of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.
Adopted budget (FY2022)
$636.3M
Share of city spending
4.8%
Budgeted revenue
$5.2B
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2022
Intrafund Transfers Out$722.8MDebt Service$379.5MTransfers Out$280.5MMandatory Fringe Benefits$86.9MUnappropriated Rev Retained$55.6MServices Of Other Depts$38.8MCity Grant Program$22.4MNon-Personnel Services$20.0M
+ 3 smaller categories
Programmatic Projects$15.0MCapital Outlay$12.0MUnappropriated Rev-Designated$6.1MOffsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$1.0B
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$780.8M
Adopted vs executed — FY2022, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$594.5M
Executed (operating)$1.1B
Deviation$499.9M (+84.1%)
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 2022, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗