Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability – BGA Policy 2027 Budget Snapshot

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability was created by the July 2021 Empowering Communities for Public Safety ordinance. As of passage of the 2022 budget, the commission was still in its interim form, although it received some initial funds for start-up operations in that year's budget.

The commission operated under interim appointed leadership for its first years, with 2024 and 2025 the first budget cycles for which the commission came into its role as a fully-operational department with leadership elected via the process laid out in the 2021 ordinance. Its budget and headcount grew as the commission ramped up to full operations, largely levelling off from 2024 onwards.

The 2027 proposal recommends a 1.9% increase in CCPSA's budget, compared to an overall citywide increase of 5.1%.

Estimated Fringe Costs

City budgets do not break out "fringe" pension and benefit costs for non-grant positions by department, instead grouping them together as citywide expenses under the Finance General section of the budget. To better reflect the real cost of service for departmental operations, BGA Policy has included an estimate of pension and benefit costs for the years 2018-2026, using Department of Finance fringe memos from each relevant year. An estimated fringe cost for the 2027 proposal uses the average annual rate of increase for each of the inputs into the fringe formulae.

Based on the city's fringe formulae, the CCPSA fringe cost for nongrant employees averaged 40.1% from 2018-2026, compared to a citywide average of 26.8%.

Local Fund Actual Spend

Since 2024, CCPSA has spent on average 77.2% of its locally funded budget, compared to the citywide average 88.1% local fund spend for the same years.

Budgeted Positions & Vacancies

CCPSA's budgeted headcount climbed during the department's first ramp-up years and have remained relatively stable since 2024, with this year's budget retaining the same 29 budgeted positions as last year.

From January through September of 2026, the months for which full-time position vacancy data is currently available, CCPSA averaged a 15.7% vacancy rate, compared to the citywide average of 11.2%.

Only one of the department's budgeted full-time positions was a persistent vacancy (defined as the number of positions within the same combination of title, subsection, section, division, department, and fund codes that remained vacant in all nine months of available data):