Every spring the Council publishes its response to the Mayor's Preliminary Plan. The current view is the Fiscal Year 2027 cycle. Use the year picker to also view Fiscal Year 2026. The final budget is negotiated and adopted by the end of June.
The Council's read on the Mayor's Preliminary Plan, plus where they'd find the resources to balance it differently.
Three places where the Council's response takes a different approach to balancing the Plan, before getting into the line-item asks below.
$3.7B over FY26 + FY27
The Mayor's Preliminary Plan baselines a 9.5% property-tax rate increase to raise about $3.7B over FY26 and FY27. The Council proposes balancing the budget through re-estimates, efficiencies, and other revenue actions in lieu of the rate increase.
$980M proposed drawdown
The Plan proposes a $980M drawdown from the Revenue Stabilization Fund. The Council proposes preserving the fund and instead drawing on the resources it identifies elsewhere in the response.
$229M proposed drawdown
The Plan proposes a $229M drawdown from the Retiree Health Benefit Trust as part of a broader $1.2B in reserve actions. The Council proposes leaving the Trust intact.
Every ask in the response is one of five kinds: restoring something that was cut, growing something that works, starting something new, fixing budget mechanics, or asking for capital. Here are the four most-funded kinds this year, with the top dollars in each.
Each tile is one ask in the response. Tiles are sized by dollar amount and colored by area of city government. Pick a topic to narrow things down. Click a tile to read the details. Open as many as you want.
The Council's response is one half of the negotiation. The Executive Budget drops in late April, hearings run through May, and the Adopted Budget is signed by the end of June.
The Council's response to the Mayor's Preliminary Plan for FY27. Includes financial-plan analysis and the Council's identified resources alongside its priorities.
The prior year's Council response to the Mayor's Preliminary Plan, organized as restorations, enhancements, capital asks, and structural fixes.
The Council's own interactive dashboards — agency budgets, headcount, contract spending, and historical financial-plan changes — built by their Finance Division.
Budget hearings and adoption votes happen at the Council. Your member's office takes constituent input.
OMB publishes the Preliminary, Executive, and Adopted Budgets, plus the financial plan updates the Council is responding to.
Each committee holds a hearing on its piece of the budget. Hearings are public and you can sign up to testify in person or by video.
The IBO is the city's nonpartisan budget watchdog. Their analyses are cited throughout the Council Response.
The Comptroller publishes its own analysis of the Mayor's plan and tracks revenue and spending throughout the year.