EXCLUSIVE San Francisco mayor orders police, health and other departments to propose cuts of $206 MILLION in desperate attempt to reverse city's 'doom loop' spiral into economic collapse

Daily Mail ^ | 10-22-23 | LEWIS PENNOCK

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San Francisco's mayor has ordered city departments including police and public health to propose budget cuts of $206 million by next week in a desperate attempt to reverse the stricken city's 'doom loop' spiral into economic collapse.

Law enforcement budgets in the city, which is ravaged by homelessness, drugs and a downtown business exodus, face cuts of $27.6 million, while the public health department could lose a further $25.9 million, according to a DailyMail.com analysis.

The fire department must propose reductions of around $10.5 million to meet the mayor's demand, while city's crumbling Municipal Transport Agency must find savings of $15.5 million, a review of official figures suggests.

In a letter dated October 11, Mayor London Breed ordered departments to propose massive cuts to this year's budgets in order to prevent San Francisco reaching a $500 million deficit by 2025.

The radical cuts mark an embarrassing change of tack from Breed, who is now forced to tear up the record-breaking $14.6 billion annual budget she signed off just three months ago. Department heads across the city have until Thursday, October 26 to propose their cuts.

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Absolutely - my family in San Francisco tends to buy everything online now instead of going of going out shopping, with very very few exceptions.

I was walking my dogs in Chrissy Field not too long ago, down on the beach - when a clean-up official from the city stopped me and told me to be careful of letting my dogs sniff around washed up debris, like driftwood, etc. He was there to clean up needles that had washed up on the shore (where kids play) - he was using a metal detector. He showed me a pile of needles he’d picked up just that morning- around 15. He said testing showed the needles had blood in them. I read where most of the needles for the “needle exchange program” end up being tossed in the trash or on the street.