General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $354.2M adopted (FY2013)
Adopted budget (FY2013)
$354.2M
Share of city spending
4.7%
Budgeted revenue
$354.2M
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2013
Debt Service$178.2MIntrafund Transfers Out$162.8MOperating Transfers Out$106.5MMandatory Fringe Benefits$62.7MUnappropriated Revenue Retained$24.1MUnappropriated Revenue-Designated$19.8MUnappropriated Revenue-Charter Reserves$17.8MCapital Outlay$14.1M
+ 3 smaller categories
Services of Other Depts$13.8MNon Personnel Services$13.8MCity Grant Programs$10.0MOffsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustments-Uses · Spending−$269.3M
Transfer Adjustments-Sources · Revenue−$269.3M
Adopted 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 2013, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗