SFGTV August 3, 2010
being laid off soon. that's just one department. police and fire, we cut them dramatically. police took a $3 million hit from a recommendation from the budget committee that we also cut back. their overtime budget from say a couple years ago, about $25 million to $7 million for the police department budget, incredible. you have to give the chief a lot of credit for bringing it down that much and the work he's done to make sure that's happened so we've been across the board, a lot of work done to bring this budget into balance, and it's only in the balance for a short period of time. ...
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