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Mayor Parker presents $6.7B city budget proposal touting $800M housing plan, 'historic' tax cuts, extended-year Philly school pilot expansion
What you need to knowMayor Cherelle L. Parker delivered her second budget address Thursday to Philadelphia City Council.The speech kicks off three months of negotiations between the Parker administration and lawmakers over the fiscal year 2026 city budget,
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker's 2026 budget includes tax cuts, preparations for 2026
Mayor Cherelle Parker is introducing her 2026 budget for the city of Philadelphia in a City Council session Thursday.
Mayor Parker spends big in $6.7B Philly budget plan
Mayor Cherelle Parker laid out a $6.7 billion budget blueprint Thursday that would hike spending and overhaul city taxes. Why it matters: Parker is keeping her foot on the gas, seeking to boost spending by nearly 6% over last year to check items off her ambitious agenda.
Mayor Cherelle Parker will propose cutting taxes and borrowing $800 million for housing in Philly’s next city budget
Parker will deliver her budget address to City Council on Thursday.
Mayor Parker unveils $6.7B budget in major investments for Philadelphians
Mayor Cherelle Parker is offering a nearly $7 billion budget as she proposes major investments in housing and pushes ahead with her plans to clean up Kensington.
Mayor Parker’s second budget proposal puts focus on housing, tax cuts
Mayor Cherelle Parker, in her second budget address, proposed borrowing $800 million for affordable housing programs and cutting the city’s business and wage taxes. The $6.7 billion spending plan, unveiled Thursday,
D.C. parents protest Congress' funding bill over a $1B cut to the city's budget
Parents are mobilizing to persuade senators to reject a Republican funding bill because it would deal a blow to the D.C. city ...
NYC public schools boss says mammoth $41.2B budget ask still isn’t enough — wants ‘hundreds of millions’ more
The Department of Education’s mammoth $41.2 billion budget plan for next year is a whopping third of the entire city’s — but ...
D.C. Families, Facing Lost Jobs and a Gutted City Budget, Beseech Republican Lawmakers
With signs made from crayons and colored markers, children rallied on Capitol Hill with their parents on Thursday, protesting ...
DC mayor treads carefully as Trump and Hill GOP threaten capital city’s budget, autonomy
As DC Council members roamed the halls of Congress on Monday, lobbying GOP lawmakers against a federal funding bill that ...
Overtime spending in city agencies killed Baltimore’s $53.8 million budget ‘windfall’; city preparing for deficit
Excessive overtime spending in city agencies all but erased Baltimore’s fiscal year 2024 surplus, and now the city is ...
They’re ‘hogging our money’: D.C. kids tell Senate not to gut city’s funding
The window narrowed to reverse the $1 billion in cuts to D.C.’s budget as senators prepared to vote on the continuing ...
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Marietta City Council: Committee, special meetings held Thursday evening
Marietta City Council met on Thursday evening to hold a finance committee meeting and a special utility and special city ...
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City controller says LA is in financial trouble, raises alarm on state of budget
What is the state of the Los Angeles city budget? The city's controller is raising the alarm, saying it's in dire shape.
Tamil Nadu Budget 2025 LIVE: TN finance minister announces a 2,000-acre global city
Live News Updates: The Tamil Nadu government will present its Budget for 2025-26 in the Legislative Assembly today at 9:30 ...
Portland eyes tapping flush clean energy fund, again, as budget shortfall looms
Amid a staggering budget gap, Portland leaders are again eyeing the city’s one-of-a-kind clean energy fund – still awash with ...