San Francisco's fiscal outlook is 'Up shit creek.' SF lost its paddle with the announced departure of controller Ben Rosenfield.
Controller Ben Rosenfield, left, in 2008 at the goodbye party for his predecessor Ed Harrington, right. The fella in the middle, Mayor Gavin Newsom, appointed Rosenfield, who was re-appointed to a 10-year term in 2018 by Mayor Mark Farrell.
But, according to a handful of Rosenfield confidants, City Hall higher-ups across San Francisco’s political spectrum and Rosenfield himself, the number spurring the controller’s departure isn’t the city’s stratospheric budget or troublesome burgeoning deficit but, rather,Believe it or not, Rosenfield won’t turn 50 until January 27; other than a schoolteacher gig a year out of college, working for San Francisco is the only job he’s ever had.
“There is no one who knows every drawer, every nook and cranny like Ben does,” Elsbernd continued. “He knows every single account, he knows the revenue, he knows what revenue goes into what account. He is a computer. You ask him what happened in 2017 to this fund and he can tell you.” computer.” Rosenfield “knew what his duties and responsibilities were. He would, calmly and respectfully, not challenge your ideas but make them better.
But that doesn’t mean he was thrilled with this year’s budget process, during which difficult decisions were punted to 2024 and the city remained solvent in large part because of fiscal legerdemain and dipping into the prodigious reserves Rosenfield in years past pushed to establish. He expressed as much to his City Hall colleagues and also“In that letter we noted that the budget very heavily relied on one-time sources, drew on reserves and on remaining federal relief,” Rosenfield said.
“Not many people in this building have the kind of universal credibility, charm and nerdy know-how,” said Rudy Gonzalez, the secretary treasurer of the city’s Building & Construction Trades Council. “Having been part of a few rounds of ballot and budget negotiations, I can say I will miss his technical expertise and, above all else, his commitment to the city of San Francisco — no matter the audience, be they a business, a mayor or a union worker.
Rosenfield, the father of 13- and 16-year-old girls, emphasizes that he “isn’t going anywhere.” He wants to “downshift” for a little while and then move into something “in public service and for the public good. That’s as far as I’ve gotten.”
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