Mayor Daniel Lurie signs $15.9 billion budget
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Mayor Daniel Lurie's budget boosts police spending and cuts nonprofit contracts. Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images
With Mayor Daniel Lurie and the Board of Supervisors approving San Francisco's $15.9 billion budget, the city's fiscal winners and losers are coming into focus.
Why it matters: The two-year plan signed by Lurie on Thursday marks the clearest signal yet of San Francisco's shifting priorities under his administration: leaner city government and a stronger public safety push.
- To close an $800 million deficit, Lurie is cutting jobs and slashing nonprofit funding.
What they're saying: "The budget that I signed today is responsible, balanced and focused on the priorities that will drive our city's recovery," Lurie said in a statement.
Between the lines: Funding for law enforcement rose, with police receiving a 3% boost to $849 million, the Sheriff's Department growing by 7% to $345 million and the District Attorney's Office climbing 3% to $96 million, as reported by The Standard.
- About 40 city workers will be laid off and roughly 1,300 vacant positions will be eliminated — down from the 100 positions that were initially proposed. The move is expected to save as much as $300 million every year in future budgets, per the mayor's office.
- The Board of Supervisors also granted Lurie expanded control over Proposition C, allowing him to redirect funds originally designated for homelessness services without securing supermajority approval.
Yes, but: Nonprofit grants and other contracts were cut by about $171 million, a move advocates say prioritizes policing over support for working-class families, immigrants and low-income residents — a friction point likely to resurface as Lurie's agenda moves forward.
- District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who is among the most progressive supervisors on the board, cast the lone no vote against passing the budget and did not attend the signing ceremony Thursday, citing opposition to such cuts.
- "We appreciate the mayor's dedication to address this budget crisis head on, but we are concerned at who these cuts target and who they spare," Anya Worley-Ziegmann, a coordinator at the People's Budget Coalition, which is made up of 150 local nonprofits and public sector unions, said in a written statement.
What's next: The budget could take a deeper hit if President Trump follows through on threats to cut federal funds from sanctuary cities.