The San Francisco
board of supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to
give preliminary approval to a fiscal 2005-2006 city budget
that includes an additional $1.5 million over proposed
levels for the city's AIDS programs, the San
Francisco Chronicle reports. The city's
budget now includes $58.5 million in AIDS funding,
which is about $3 million less than the fiscal 2004-2005
budget, but $1.5 million more than initial current
budget proposals included. Overall, the supervisors
restored $23 million in planned cuts to the city's
$5.3 billion budget that was initially proposed by
Mayor Gavin Newsom. A final vote on the city's
budget is scheduled for next week.