Bradley OKs $3.9-Billion City Budget : Finances: The retiring mayor approves all but one measure. He expresses concern over governor’s proposal to move property tax funds from local governments to schools.

Mayor Tom Bradley on Thursday approved the city’s $3.9-billion budget for the next fiscal year, a spending plan that calls for the first layoffs of city employees in years and trims several programs and departments.

In his last of 20 city budgets, the retiring mayor did make one technical change in the City Council’s proposed budget passed this week. He vetoed the transfer of $75,000 from a special parking fund to pay for sidewalk cleaning and the construction of a parking lot, saying the move appeared to violate city rules.

But he signed off on the rest of the 1993-94 budget, which takes effect July 1.

“We’re pleased with the mayor’s decision,” Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, said through a spokeswoman. “But we’re mindful that this is just the first round in our budget process. The second round takes place in Sacramento when the state takes its budget action.”

To deal with state budget woes, Gov. Pete Wilson has proposed transferring more than $2 billion in property tax money from local governments to schools. Los Angeles stands to lose as much as $350 million if the state follows through with such cuts.

“If the state proceeds with the governor’s proposal to withhold property taxes from us,” Bradley said in a statement, “the city will be plunged into the worst financial crisis in its history.”

The budget continues a hiring freeze in all city departments--except police, fire and sanitation--and calls for the layoffs of more than 100 building inspectors and planners, most of whom are expected to be transferred to other city jobs.

Among the revenue sources in the budget is one new tax. Cellular telephone users will begin paying the city’s utility users tax, expected to generate $4.5 million a year.