Departments that do not draw from San Francisco's general fund are caught up in plans to tackle the city's massive general fund deficit. Why?
San Francisco’s beleaguered parents of teens — is there any other kind? — received a strange and terrible message from the city on Thursday.
At the vast Public Utilities Commission, which brings water and power to this and other cities and pipes away and treats your sewage, Mission Local has learned that the hiring freeze abruptly curtailed the filling of, a situation involving literally thousands of potential applicants.
The $876 million gap is a general fund deficit. But the PUC — or, for that matter, the port, the airport, and others — are not. To varying degrees, they do not receive much if any money from the city’s general fund . breaking the news of the hiring freeze. In them, he explicitly stated that “this includes non-General Fund departments.” So, this was no boating accident. It was a deliberate decision.
Yes, there were headlines generated by a broad and confident and sudden hiring freeze — and the gravitas of the city’s problems was emphasized. That’s important, but a more gradual and nuanced approach would have spared many of the unintended consequences that will add even more time to San Francisco’s already marathon hiring process and may well drive qualified candidates away from the city.
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