San Francisco Mayor, Supes Agree To Budget Deal

The Board of Supervisors budget committee unanimously passed the budget late Wednesday, which included $43.7 million in changes to the $6.6 billion budget, according to board president David Chiu's office and the mayor's office.

Some of the supervisors, including Chiu and Budget Committee Chair John Avalos, had complained cuts in the budget Newsom presented on June 1 -- aimed at closing an estimated $575.6 million deficit for the coming fiscal year -- unfairly targeted services provided by the Department of Public Health and the Human Services Agency.

They claimed the cuts should be spread out more evenly among the departments, including to the police, fire and sheriff's departments.

The board then proposed $82.9 million in cuts to those departments, which public safety officials condemned, warning they could result in layoffs of hundreds of police officers and closures of several fire stations.

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