News emerged in November that San Diego has been forced to .

The long-troubled project is running well over budget, and San Diego previously fired its original consulting firm in order to ink a deal with SAP's services arm, which is finishing the work.

"There were many timecard entry errors introduced by our employees (i.e time being charged to one account when it should have been charged to another account) when the new payroll system went live [in January]," a city official said in a memo at the time.

The IDG News Service