During his mostly cheery inauguration speech in January, Mayor Daniel Lurie shared some grim but unsurprising news. 

City Hall’s finances are in the red. “Painful decisions” — as he put it — must be made.

Less than two months into his tenure, those words appear to have fallen flat with a significant swath of the city’s departments, which have been tasked with 15% reductions to fill an $840 million budget deficit — the largest in San Francisco’s history. 

A whopping 22 city agencies submitted budget proposals to the mayor’s office that did not hit that benchmark. Some came close, while others proposed no cuts whatsoever. A handful — the sheriff’s, elections, and fire departments, along with the Asian Art Museum and public defender — are even asking for more money.