Mayor Lurie wants to close S.F. budget deficit by cutting roughly 1,400 city jobs

Mayor Daniel Lurie plans to close San Francisco’s massive budget deficit by slashing about 1,400 city jobs and eliminating about $100 million in grant and contract spending.

The vast majority of the positions that Lurie seeks to cut in his first two-year budget proposal, which he was set to unveil Friday, are vacant. But as many as 150 are filled.

Some of the filled jobs are expected to be lost through retirement and attrition while some would be eliminated outright under the mayor’s proposal. However, it remains unclear how many or exactly which departments will see job cuts…

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