Public Utilities Commission (water, power, sewer)
Department PUC · Public Works, Transportation & Commerce · $1.9B adopted (FY2026)
Adopted budget (FY2026)
$1.9B
Share of city spending
11.8%
Budgeted revenue
$1.9B
Service area
Public Works, Transportation & Commerce
Spending by category — FY2026
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$648.9M
Overhead and Allocations · Spending−$103.7M
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$648.8M
Adopted vs executed — FY2025, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$1.3B
Executed (operating)$758.9M
Deviation−$513.2M (−40.3%)
Every comparable year
2019−41.9%
2020−42.9%
2021−43.5%
2022−42.8%
2023−41.9%
2024−42.4%
2025−40.3%
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. The SFPUC's budget sits across a fund structure where part of the Operating-fund budget is executed in other fund categories (debt service, capital), so large under-execution (for example −42% in FY2024) is a fund-structure artifact, not money left unspent.
Source
Adopted budget lines for department PUC, fiscal year 2026, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗