San Francisco Democrat Mayor London Breed cut the funding for the city’s first-ever Office of Reparations due to a massive budget deficit, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
Facing a $780 million budget deficit for the upcoming two fiscal years, funding for the office was pulled back amid Breed’s $75 million in budget cuts in preparation for the expected shortfall.
The establishment of the reparations office came after a much-publicized, years-long campaign that resulted in the approval of a city reparations plan.
The decision to cut the funding for the fledgling office comes after Supervisor Shamann Walton fought to include money in the budget for it earlier this year.
San Francisco officials had been considering reparations for long-term Black residents and had proposed providing $5 million per individual; California entered the Union as a free state in 1850.