Overview
- San Francisco issued 127 layoff notices and is planning for about 500 job cuts as the city works to close a $643 million two‑year deficit.
- City workers and labor groups rallied against the cuts and warned that shrinking staff will slow frontline services in clinics, hospitals, and senior programs.
- Advocates flagged a potential $3 million reduction for the Department of Disability and Aging Services, saying the loss would strain nonprofits that help seniors and people with disabilities.
- Mayor Daniel Lurie called the moves “incredibly painful” but said they are needed to prevent deeper reductions given a five‑year shortfall projected at $1 billion.
- Unions back Proposition D, which raises the city’s “overpaid executive” tax, while Lurie opposes it and prepares a June 1 budget that supervisors can later revise.