There has been some confusion about how the City's budget process works so I'm making this thread in the hopes of adding clarity and transparency:

1) No new amendments can be added to the City's budget at this time. There's a process for getting items on the agenda & we're past that point. We were past it last week during the first budget session, which is why no votes did not buy the community more time to make demands.

2) The budget last week needed 4 votes to pass. When Commissioner Eudaly voted it down, Mayor Wheeler also voted no so that an emergency could be called and the budget could pass with 3 votes on 6/18/20.

3) People have asked what would happen if a 2 to 2 stalemate on the vote this Wednesday were to occur, so here it is: The previous budget would be reinstated and we would lose the progress we made with the current amendments AND

The City would lose authorization to use the General Fund money as of July 1st. This would look like is a mass cut of services along with layoffs or furloughs for City employees (and not just the bureaucratic ones that are well off but low income employees as well).

4) So what can be done? Activists should keep an eye out for the Fall BMP, aka the Budget Monitoring Process. This happens in, you guessed it, the Fall. This is another opportunity before the yearly budget vote in which bureaus reassess how funds are allocated.

Systemic change neither begins nor ends with the budget. We have more work to do that has nothing to do w/ the budget to address centuries of systemic racism inflicted on BIPOC communities. This is not the last time we'll review the bureau’s budget/invest in our Black community.