{"id":254535,"date":"2026-04-06T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254535\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:18:08","slug":"sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-cuts-127-city-jobs-as-more-layoffs-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254535\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Mayor Daniel Lurie cuts 127 city jobs as more layoffs loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/culture-events\/article\/sf-ballet-gala-2026-21320963.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Daniel\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/culture-events\/article\/sf-ballet-gala-2026-21320963.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lurie<\/a>\u2019s office issued layoff notices to city workers Monday, signaling what could be the beginning of broader cuts across the city workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The 127 layoffs include jobs in the City Administrator\u2019s Office, the Department of Public Health, the San Francisco Police Department, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and the Human Services Agency,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/04\/06\/city-layoffs-begin-lurie-hands-127-pink-slips\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the San Francisco Standard<\/a>. Charles Lutvak, spokesperson for the mayor\u2019s office, confirmed the layoff numbers in an email.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared with SFGATE, Lurie said the layoffs come amid budget shortfalls and setting up the city for \u201cdurable economic recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as I\u2019ve been mayor, our administration has worked to make government serve San Franciscans more effectively and support our economic recovery, now and for years to come,\u201d Lurie said. \u201cFacing a budget deficit that will rise to $1 billion, alongside significant cuts in federal and state funding, we have a choice: take action now or be forced to do twice as much in the coming years. The steps we\u2019re taking today are a painful but necessary continuation of the work we\u2019ve been doing since last year to manage taxpayer dollars responsibly and deliver the best possible services for San Franciscans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The California Employment Development Department did not respond to\u00a0SFGATE\u2019s request for information about the layoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sophia Kittler, director of the city\u2019s budget office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-calls-for-500-job-cuts-budget-deficit\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told KPIX-TV in March<\/a> that the city needs to cut at least 500 jobs to close the gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mayor Daniel\u00a0Lurie\u2019s office issued layoff notices to city workers Monday, signaling what could be the beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,1693,1692,3100],"class_list":{"0":"post-254535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news","14":"tag-sfglocal","15":"tag-sfgnews","16":"tag-sfgpolitics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}