General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $755.6M adopted (FY2021)
Adopted budget (FY2021)
$755.6M
Share of city spending
5.6%
Budgeted revenue
$4.9B
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2021
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$1.6B
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$1.5B
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2021
Property Taxes$2.4BBusiness Taxes$1.1BIntraFund Transfers In$1.1BOther Local Taxes$673.0MUnappropriated Fund Balance$526.9MTransfers In$330.7MIntergovernmental: Federal$82.1MCharges for Services$21.8MFines, Forfeiture, & Penalties$17.6MInterest & Investment Income$17.2MLicenses, Permits,& Franchises$15.6MIntergovernmental: State$4.6MOther Revenues$3.6M
Adopted vs executed — FY2021, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$708,745,388
Executed (operating)$671,125,430
Deviation−$37.6M (−5.3%)
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 2021, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗