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A second $10 million payment will be available Sept. 1, and the remaining $90 million will be paid in three more installments before June 2026.[aside postID=news_11987568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-1020x670.jpg']The Oakland Police Officers Association said it was “doubtful the sale of the Oakland Coliseum will solve the mayor’s and city council’s epic mismanagement,” according to a statement from Sgt. Tim Dolan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply concerned for the safety of residents, businesses, and our police officers,” Dolan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Thao said the deal was not a short-term solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a deal that will lead to a multi-billion-dollar investment in East Oakland,” she wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MayorShengThao/status/1818079165150798269\">post on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said in May that the city would be working with AASEG to create housing, along with an entertainment, retail and sports destination at the site of the Coliseum. 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The first, introduced by Mayor Sheng Thao’s office on May 24, includes $63 million in one-time funds that could \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">come from the Coliseum sale\u003c/a> as well as a contingency plan in the event those funds aren’t available by September. The second proposal, requested by some council members, cuts those funds from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the speedy sale of the Coliseum, both proposals outline broad spending reductions and significant cuts to public safety departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the sale not go through, council members will have to choose between “stepping on the brake pedal versus pulling the emergency brake,” budget administrator Bradley Johnson said during the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor Sheng Thao’s contingency plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposal introduced by Thao’s office uses one-time funds from the Coliseum, helping reduce Oakland’s existing budget deficit, which is more than $100 million. 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Council members acknowledged that the pay hikes for city employees could lead to growing budget shortfalls in the years ahead, but approved an agreement that avoids large cuts to city services in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did here collectively as a council was push beyond our comfort zone,” said Councilmember David Cohen, who co-authored the budget agreement. “But it’s important, I believe, that our employees feel valued and are compensated as well as possible. 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To avoid larger cuts, Council members agreed to trim $100,000 each from their office budgets — and $200,000 from Mahan’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen what some would do with this money and I fail to see how hiring content creators for our offices would help the families of our district,” said Councilmember Peter Ortiz. “I don’t think we need more IG reels and TikTok videos.”[aside postID=news_11960306 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg']A recommendation by city staff to enact larger cuts to the Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services department drew criticism from dozens of residents and workers at Tuesday’s meeting. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of a rise in working from home and empty downtown office buildings and storefronts. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 26, San Francisco Mayor London Breed signed a $14.6 billion budget, after weeks of negotiations with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors over how to address a projected $780 million two-year deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that’s an eye-popping number compared to the budgets of San José and Oakland, it’s helpful to remember San Francisco is a county, as well as a city, and therefore funds additional expenses that Oakland and San José do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11957666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png\" alt=\"A graph that shows San Francisco's 2023-24 $14.6 Billion Budget\" width=\"1788\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png 1788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-800x186.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1020x237.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-160x37.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1536x357.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1788px) 100vw, 1788px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest budget battle in San Francisco centered on redirecting permanent housing funds to homeless shelters and temporary housing, similar to a controversial budget proposal in San José over homelessness spending. Breed proposed using $60 million earmarked by voters for permanent housing to fund her plan. Similarly, she also proposed dipping into a voter-approved tax that funds early childhood education and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors tussled with the mayor’s office over those proposed changes in negotiations for weeks. Ultimately, they reached a compromise using money they only later realized was available, using accrued interest from those two tax measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like San José, San Francisco’s budget also includes funding to increase the city’s police force. The police department budget grew by 8.5%, enough to hire 220 officers in the coming years. Public pressure to address a feared rise in crime prompted most lawmakers to back the mayor’s plan to increase the police department, one of the largest expansions in San Francisco’s spending plan, even as other departments were asked to take a cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Time Funding Solutions in San Francisco's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cD4o8\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cD4o8/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s shrinking daytime population and vacant office space blew a $780 million hole in San Francisco’s budget. Escalating health insurance costs and pensions contributed, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way lawmakers plugged that hole won’t hold for long. The city’s two-year budget was balanced using nearly $1 billion in one-time funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This funding comes from a number of sources, including an opioid lawsuit settlement against Walgreens, FEMA reimbursements for emergency pandemic spending and various reserve funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of one-time sources to meet a budget need isn’t unheard of. And according to the City Controller’s Office, the use of one-time funding falls within the city’s legally mandated limits. But in a budget briefing letter, the controller also warned, “The use of one-time or nonrecurring sources to support ongoing operations creates a future budget shortfall, requiring expenditures to be reduced or replacement resources identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s the budget equivalent of using chewing gum to plug a leak. If downtown doesn’t boom like a Gold Rush in the near future, then San Francisco lawmakers will need to make drastic cuts in future budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year budget is often revised in its second year so lawmakers can adjust it to the realities of tax revenue projections. If the projections don’t hold, Breed can look forward to a bitter fight over what departments to cut during her mayoral re-election bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco's Projected Deficit in Upcoming Fiscal Years \" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cMZn6\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cMZn6/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s budget process didn’t turn into the bloodbath many predicted it would. But that could happen soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A five-year estimate issued by the City Controller’s Office, Mayor’s Office and Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Legislative Analyst foresees growing budget shortfalls in the coming years, starting at $488.9 million in 2024–2025 and reaching $1.3 billion in the 2027–2028 budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some good news for the city, San Francisco’s tourism tax dollars are already rebounding. But it’s not enough money to offset a shrinking tax base from a massive dip in office use. A variety of taxes are tied to how many people work in San Francisco, from property taxes to various business taxes, and all of those have taken a hit post-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing this all coming down the pike, Mayor Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin passed legislation to foster economic growth downtown. Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. Now the city is trying to attract new businesses downtown to generate more city revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under-the-Radar Projects Funded in SF's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-0ampp\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0ampp/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"729\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the mayor and Board of Supervisors clash over the budget, it’s actually over a very small slice of the overall $14.6 billion pie. Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors reallocated $70 million after their weeks-long negotiations with the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that into perspective, that’s less than 1% of the budget.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101893348,news_11953006,news_11954871\"]And while it may be a small piece of the pie, the impact on the people and programs who need it is incalculable. Here are some of the program investments that caught our eye:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sisterhood Gardens near the Ocean View neighborhood received $115,000 to continue operating a community garden that serves the area’s large population of seniors and monolingual immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $4.8 million went to the SRO Collaborative to keep up its code enforcement efforts in single-room occupancy hotels. 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Public pressure to address a feared rise in crime prompted most lawmakers to back the mayor’s plan to increase the police department, one of the largest expansions in San Francisco’s spending plan, even as other departments were asked to take a cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Time Funding Solutions in San Francisco's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cD4o8\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cD4o8/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s shrinking daytime population and vacant office space blew a $780 million hole in San Francisco’s budget. Escalating health insurance costs and pensions contributed, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way lawmakers plugged that hole won’t hold for long. The city’s two-year budget was balanced using nearly $1 billion in one-time funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This funding comes from a number of sources, including an opioid lawsuit settlement against Walgreens, FEMA reimbursements for emergency pandemic spending and various reserve funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of one-time sources to meet a budget need isn’t unheard of. And according to the City Controller’s Office, the use of one-time funding falls within the city’s legally mandated limits. But in a budget briefing letter, the controller also warned, “The use of one-time or nonrecurring sources to support ongoing operations creates a future budget shortfall, requiring expenditures to be reduced or replacement resources identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s the budget equivalent of using chewing gum to plug a leak. 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Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of turmoil in Silicon Valley and changing commuter habits. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, when San José’s City Council passed its budget for the 2023–24 fiscal year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">debate largely centered on how the city should spend\u003c/a> $87 million in earmarked funds left over from previous years to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan led a controversial push to prioritize funding temporary shelter, while other Council members urged a continued focus on paying for more permanent affordable housing. The compromise reached will shift a quarter of the unspent money toward temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the budget, the Council broadly agreed on increasing police staffing and setting aside the city’s modest budget surplus to deal with potential shortfalls in future years.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-800x210.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1020x267.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-160x42.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1536x403.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco and Oakland — which have both suffered from a steep decline in downtown commuters — San José is less reliant on a surge in daytime population, helping to land the city in a projected budget surplus of $35.2 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its proposed operating budget, the city manager’s office wrote that “key economic areas remain strong, including robust employment figures, rebounding hotel occupancy and room rates, and growing sales tax activity levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan said the city’s diversified economy also helped shield the budget from the fallout of tech layoffs that began surging at the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost one in five jobs in the city are in manufacturing, so when you see these big top-line layoff numbers, they aren’t actually impacting San José as much,” Mahan told KQED. “We’re also a very residential-heavy city, which gives you a bit more stability in terms of revenues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-800x438.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1020x559.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1536x841.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is not planning a spending spree with its $35 million surplus. Again, in the grand scheme of things, it’s a pretty modest windfall — just 2% of the entire general fund — and city leaders are opting to use it conservatively, putting the majority of it, $19 million, into a reserve to prepare for an anticipated $18.8 million \u003cem>deficit \u003c/em>next fiscal year (more on that below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are setting dollars aside, and have consistently, in rainy day funds,” Mahan said. “We have not overextended ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next largest surplus expenditure, $8 million, is for the BeautifySJ program. That initiative, launched in 2017, funds neighborhood clean-ups and staffing to respond to graffiti and illegal dumping complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-800x242.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1020x308.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-160x48.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1536x465.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José budget officials aren’t expecting the good times to last for long. The City Manager’s office is projecting this year’s surplus to be followed by a $18.8 million deficit next year, followed by roughly balanced books in the fiscal year beginning in July of 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current projections, according to the city’s operating budget document, are “built on the assumption of a moderate recession beginning in summer 2023, which impacts several economically sensitive categories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, things can (and have) changed. Despite a long-feared recession, the national and local economy has continued to motor along. On the flip side, the city’s ongoing labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956630/thousands-of-san-jose-city-workers-to-vote-next-week-on-strike-authorization\">tensions with its largest employee unions\u003c/a> could add some unforeseen costs in future budgets. Unlike the federal government, cities and states are not allowed to pass budgets with deficits, so if San José faces a shortfall, the books will need to be balanced with cuts or taxes — or as bureaucrats lovingly refer to them: savings and revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-800x582.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/0q52a-how-san-jos-spent-its-american-rescue-plan-arpa-money-nbsp-nbsp-2-1536x1118.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address economic uncertainty during the pandemic, San José city services were bolstered by an unprecedented level of aid from the federal government — most notably, the American Rescue Plan Act, signed by President Joe Biden in March of 2021, which delivered some $213 million to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two years, those funds have allowed the city to maintain its staff, while expanding waste pickup, rental assistance, housing for people experiencing homelessness and food distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, those federal dollars are running out, with: only $38 million remaining in the pot.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11957602,news_11952913\"]In budget terms, the sunsetting of funds like these is not technically a cut. But it feels that way for organizations like Loaves and Fishes Family Kitchen, a nonprofit meal provider that relied on that money to ramp up its delivery service to residents in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That contract that we were asked to create meals for, it represents about 500,000 meals,” said David Hott, the group’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hott said that infusion of funding allowed his organization to deliver meals to a variety of service providers, including the Alum Rock School District, churches and local housing groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic activities have lessened and the funding has ceased,” Hott said. “That does not mean the need has ceased, and that’s the struggle that we face now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with no more federal relief coming in, Hott said they could be forced to scale back, and stop these expanded services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of turmoil in Silicon Valley and changing commuter habits. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, when San José’s City Council passed its budget for the 2023–24 fiscal year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">debate largely centered on how the city should spend\u003c/a> $87 million in earmarked funds left over from previous years to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan led a controversial push to prioritize funding temporary shelter, while other Council members urged a continued focus on paying for more permanent affordable housing. The compromise reached will shift a quarter of the unspent money toward temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the budget, the Council broadly agreed on increasing police staffing and setting aside the city’s modest budget surplus to deal with potential shortfalls in future years.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-800x210.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1020x267.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-160x42.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Uon0q-san-jos-2023-2024-budget-1-1536x403.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco and Oakland — which have both suffered from a steep decline in downtown commuters — San José is less reliant on a surge in daytime population, helping to land the city in a projected budget surplus of $35.2 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its proposed operating budget, the city manager’s office wrote that “key economic areas remain strong, including robust employment figures, rebounding hotel occupancy and room rates, and growing sales tax activity levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan said the city’s diversified economy also helped shield the budget from the fallout of tech layoffs that began surging at the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost one in five jobs in the city are in manufacturing, so when you see these big top-line layoff numbers, they aren’t actually impacting San José as much,” Mahan told KQED. “We’re also a very residential-heavy city, which gives you a bit more stability in terms of revenues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-800x438.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1020x559.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/ghwys-where-is-san-jos-s-surplus-going-1-1536x841.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is not planning a spending spree with its $35 million surplus. Again, in the grand scheme of things, it’s a pretty modest windfall — just 2% of the entire general fund — and city leaders are opting to use it conservatively, putting the majority of it, $19 million, into a reserve to prepare for an anticipated $18.8 million \u003cem>deficit \u003c/em>next fiscal year (more on that below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are setting dollars aside, and have consistently, in rainy day funds,” Mahan said. “We have not overextended ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next largest surplus expenditure, $8 million, is for the BeautifySJ program. That initiative, launched in 2017, funds neighborhood clean-ups and staffing to respond to graffiti and illegal dumping complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11957437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-800x242.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1020x308.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-160x48.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Pn8ak-san-jos-s-projected-surplus-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-years-1-1536x465.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José budget officials aren’t expecting the good times to last for long. The City Manager’s office is projecting this year’s surplus to be followed by a $18.8 million deficit next year, followed by roughly balanced books in the fiscal year beginning in July of 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current projections, according to the city’s operating budget document, are “built on the assumption of a moderate recession beginning in summer 2023, which impacts several economically sensitive categories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, things can (and have) changed. Despite a long-feared recession, the national and local economy has continued to motor along. On the flip side, the city’s ongoing labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956630/thousands-of-san-jose-city-workers-to-vote-next-week-on-strike-authorization\">tensions with its largest employee unions\u003c/a> could add some unforeseen costs in future budgets. 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