General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $442.2M adopted (FY2016)
Adopted budget (FY2016)
$442.2M
Share of city spending
4.6%
Budgeted revenue
$442.2M
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2016
Intrafund Transfers Out$413.1MOperating Transfers Out$232.5MDebt Service$206.8MMandatory Fringe Benefits$57.7MUnappropriated Revenue-Designated$49.0MServices of Other Depts$40.2MUnappropriated Revenue Retained$29.8MTransfer Out for Capital Expenditures$25.9MCity Grant Programs$25.0MUnappropriated Revenue-Charter Reserves$19.4MNon Personnel Services$11.9MCapital Outlay$2.1MProgrammatic Projects$300,000
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustments-Uses · Spending−$671.5M
Transfer Adjustments-Sources · Revenue−$671.5M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2016
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 2016, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗