General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $772.0M adopted (FY2020)
Adopted budget (FY2020)
$772.0M
Share of city spending
6.3%
Budgeted revenue
$5.1B
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2020
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$1.3B
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$906.3M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2020
Property Taxes$2.5BOther Local Taxes$1.1BBusiness Taxes$1.1BIntraFund Transfers In$846.0MUnappropriated Fund Balance$298.3MInterest & Investment Income$70.0MTransfers In$60.3MFines, Forfeiture, & Penalties$20.4MLicenses, Permits,& Franchises$17.7MCharges for Services$12.9MIntergovernmental: State$4.6MOther Revenues$50,000
Adopted vs executed — FY2020, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$739,305,441
Executed (operating)$750,803,149
Deviation$11.5M (+1.6%)
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 2020, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗