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San Francisco Chronicle - July 19, 2005
Rachel Gordon, rgordon@sfchronicle.com.
Other services facing funding cuts, including a popular tree-planting program, also may be spared as the Board of Supervisors takes up the city's proposed $5.3 billion spending and revenue package for the first time today. City officials had to close a projected $59 million deficit.
"There will always be things that aren't perfect, but given that, I feel pretty good about the budget,'' said Supervisor Tom Ammiano, chairman of the board's Budget & Finance Committee, who has spent two weeks negotiating with his colleagues and the mayor's office to find additional money for the services.
The budget committee voted June 30 to undo $16 million in cuts that Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed in his spending plan. Further tweaks since then have restored several million dollars more, Ammiano said Monday.
The 11-member board is expected to approve the revised plan or a version of it today, with the final vote scheduled for next week. Six votes are needed for passage.
Many of the most contentious issues were removed before the full board got a chance to debate the proposal. One battle that may linger, however, is over funding for AIDS and HIV initiatives.
The revised budget also includes fee increases for everything from golf to autopsies. The regular fare for a Municipal Railway ride is set to increase 25 cents in September to $1.50.
The supervisors also will decide whether to agree to a plan endorsed by Ammiano and Newsom to pump an additional $13.2 million into the public schools, money made available to the city earlier this month through an unexpected windfall from the state.
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