Overview
- The Board of Supervisors’ budget committee finalized the plan Thursday after accelerated negotiations and approved roughly $27–28.5 million in targeted add‑backs to community programs.
- Add‑backs reversed some planned layoffs at the 311 call center, Laguna Honda Hospital, and the Human Services Agency and preserved funding for Free City College, HIV prevention, senior services, youth internships, and case management.
- The restored funds amount to less than 0.2 percent of the $16.9 billion budget and were found largely by trimming line items in Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposal, such as vehicle estimates.
- Several nonprofits and programs did not have grants restored and will face cuts, including a Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights program that expects to sharply reduce services to small businesses.
- The revised budget moves to a full Board vote on July 21 and then to the mayor for signature before the August 1 deadline while longer‑term revenue choices and future deficits remain unresolved.