General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $436.4M adopted (FY2017)
Adopted budget (FY2017)
$436.4M
Share of city spending
4.3%
Budgeted revenue
$436.4M
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2017
Intrafund Transfers Out$506.4MOperating Transfers Out$254.0MDebt Service$206.8MUnappropriated Revenue-Designated$74.6MMandatory Fringe Benefits$61.0MTransfer Out for Capital Expenditures$38.0MServices of Other Depts$36.4MUnappropriated Revenue Retained$27.5MNon Personnel Services$14.4MCity Grant Programs$12.4MCapital Outlay$2.6MProgrammatic Projects$550,000
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustments-Uses · Spending−$798.4M
Transfer Adjustments-Sources · Revenue−$798.4M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2017
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 2017, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗