Public Utilities Commission (water, power, sewer)
Department PUC · Public Works, Transportation & Commerce · $1.5B adopted (FY2023)
In fiscal year 2023, San Francisco budgeted $1.5B for Public Utilities Commission (water, power, sewer), 10.5% of city spending, against $1.5B of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.
Adopted budget (FY2023)
$1.5B
Share of city spending
10.5%
Budgeted revenue
$1.5B
Service area
Public Works, Transportation & Commerce
Spending by category — FY2023
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$442.3M
Overhead and Allocations · Spending−$95.6M
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$442.3M
Adopted vs executed — FY2023, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$1.2B
Executed (operating)$684.6M
Deviation−$493.7M (−41.9%)
Every comparable year
2019−41.9%
2020−42.9%
2021−43.5%
2022−42.8%
2023−41.9%
2024−42.4%
2025−40.3%
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. The SFPUC's budget sits across a fund structure where part of the Operating-fund budget is executed in other fund categories (debt service, capital), so large under-execution (for example −42% in FY2024) is a fund-structure artifact, not money left unspent.
Source
Adopted budget lines for department PUC, fiscal year 2023, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗