Politicians lie. The Mayor of San Fran, a “Reformer” is just a well dressed, very rich, liar.
“Mayor Daniel Lurie dropped his long-anticipated budget proposal on Friday, proclaiming that over 1,400 San Francisco government positions would be eliminated in an effort to close the city’s $781.5 million two-year deficit. Of those, around 1,300 positions are vacant thanks to a January hiring freeze and the city’s glacial hiring process.
“A budget crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions,” said Lurie, during his budget remarks.
A closer look at budget documents, however, reveals that the true number of consequential eliminated positions is much lower: some 470 positions.”
Sadly, the people of San Fran are believing the lies of Mayor Lurie. In the end they will pay the price of a totally collapsed city.
Mayor Lurie wants to cut 1,400 positions. Only 470 are budgeted positions.
by Kelly Waldron, Mission Local, 6/3/25 https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/mayor-lurie-wants-to-cut-1400-jobs-but-only-470-budgeted-positions-would-be-nixed/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=39078bea99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_03_04_56&utm_source=Mission+Local&utm_term=0_-39078bea99-220954085
Mayor Daniel Lurie dropped his long-anticipated budget proposal on Friday, proclaiming that over 1,400 San Francisco government positions would be eliminated in an effort to close the city’s $781.5 million two-year deficit. Of those, around 1,300 positions are vacant thanks to a January hiring freeze and the city’s glacial hiring process.
“A budget crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions,” said Lurie, during his budget remarks.
A closer look at budget documents, however, reveals that the true number of consequential eliminated positions is much lower: some 470 positions. That’s according to the proposed “Annual Appropriation Ordinance,” which allocates the amount of money each department can spend on funding job positions (those are listed in the “Annual Salary Ordinance,” essentially a menu of job positions available to each department and their respective pay rates).
According to these underlying documents, all of this wrangling only results in a net change of some 470 budgeted positions. The savings represented by eliminating them will, naturally, be smaller than anyone seeing the mayor’s 1,400 figure would’ve initially assumed.
It is not yet clear how much this cost-cutting measure will save the city. The mayor’s office did not respond to requests for more detailed information. Labor sources previously told Mission Localthat they were informed of projected savings of $40 million over two years by eliminating the non-vacant positions. (That tracks with the average salary and benefits earned by a city employee: $222,242.) Only 100 or so of the jobs are actually occupied.
“It’s like throwing a penny down the hallway,” bemoaned Rudy Gonzalez, secretary-treasurer of the city’s Building & Construction Trades Council. “How much are you saving?”
The unions representing city workers are staunchly opposed to any layoffs. “We believe that there is no reason for the layoffs to have to occur,” said Kim Tavaglione, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council. She added that the city has the ability to make up the funding gap elsewhere.
The unions are currently gearing up to make their case to the Board of Supervisors, “to see if they are going to stand with working people or stand with DOGE-style tactics,” said Tavaglione. The supervisors can decide to reallocate some funds during the addback process.
Nonprofit and unionized workers are pledging to attend a rally at City Hall tomorrow before swarming the Board of Supervisors Budget Committee meeting.
Laying off workers is one piece of Lurie’s cost-cutting puzzle. The mayor has also proposed slashing allocations to nonprofit contracts by $200 million over two years and increasing charges for some services.
Meanwhile, some core functions will sustain, if not see an increase to, their budgets; namely, the police and sheriff departments, the fire department and street cleaning services.
