General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $450.4M adopted (FY2015)
Adopted budget (FY2015)
$450.4M
Share of city spending
5.0%
Budgeted revenue
$450.4M
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2015
Intrafund Transfers Out$287.2MDebt Service$250.8MOperating Transfers Out$205.0MMandatory Fringe Benefits$60.6MUnappropriated Revenue-Designated$41.1MUnappropriated Revenue Retained$31.4MServices of Other Depts$22.6MUnappropriated Revenue-Charter Reserves$19.1MNon Personnel Services$11.5MCity Grant Programs$8.1MCapital Outlay$5.1MProgrammatic Projects$100,000
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustments-Uses · Spending−$492.2M
Transfer Adjustments-Sources · Revenue−$492.2M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2015
Adopted vs executed — FY2025, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$591,092,608
Executed (operating)$624,508,020
Deviation$33.4M (+5.7%)
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 2015, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗