General City (unallocated) — San Francisco budget 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

Intrafund Transfers Out$891.6M Debt Service$548.1M Transfers Out$396.8M Mandatory Fringe Benefits$80.2M Unappropriated Rev Retained$34.6M Services Of Other Depts$34.0M City Grant Program$32.0M Unappropriated Rev-Designated$29.9M

+ 3 smaller categories

Non-Personnel Services$12.0M Programmatic Projects$1.1M Salaries$153,664

Offsets & adjustments

Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$1.3B

Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$906.3M

Where this department’s money comes from — FY2020

Property Taxes$2.5B Other Local Taxes$1.1B Business Taxes$1.1B IntraFund Transfers In$846.0M Unappropriated Fund Balance$298.3M Interest & Investment Income$70.0M Transfers In$60.3M Fines, Forfeiture, & Penalties$20.4M

+ 4 smaller categories

Licenses, Permits,& Franchises$17.7M Charges for Services$12.9M Intergovernmental: State$4.6M Other Revenues$50,000

Adopted vs executed — FY2020, Operating funds

Adopted (operating)$739.3M

Executed (operating)$750.8M

Deviation$11.5M (+1.6%)

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 2020, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗