General City (unallocated)
Department GEN · General City Responsibilities · $636.3M adopted (FY2022)
Adopted budget (FY2022)
$636.3M
Share of city spending
4.8%
Budgeted revenue
$5.2B
Service area
General City Responsibilities
Spending by category — FY2022
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$1.0B
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$780.8M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2022
Property Taxes$2.5BBusiness Taxes$992.1MOther Local Taxes$786.4MUnappropriated Fund Balance$777.5MIntraFund Transfers In$722.2MTransfers In$58.5MIntergovernmental: Federal$49.5MInterest & Investment Income$30.0MCharges for Services$23.6MFines, Forfeiture, & Penalties$21.9MLicenses, Permits,& Franchises$14.3MOther Revenues$8.8MIntergovernmental: State$4.6M
Adopted vs executed — FY2022, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$594,515,026
Executed (operating)$1,094,386,558
Deviation$499.9M (+84.1%)
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 2022, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗