This week the Council passed the City’s budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year.
In nearly a month of Budget and Finance Committee meetings, the Mayor’s proposed budget was scrutinized, modified and adjusted where necessary. The budget adopted by the Council maintains the essential outlines and priorities of the Mayor’s proposal: emergency preparedness, protecting Angelenos from crime, reducing the cost of housing, bringing unhoused people indoors and preventing Angelenos from falling into homelessness in the first place.
The budget includes small increases to the Inside Safe program and the CIRCLE mental health response teams and provides for replacing LAPD officers as they retire to maintain a force of 8,555 officers.
Among the highlights of the Mayor’s proposed budget preserved in the final draft are:
- increased funding to address RV encampments
- increased funding for street and sidewalk repair, street sweeping, bulky item pickup and addressing illegal dumping
- funding for 700 lane miles of street repair
To these priorities, the Council added increased funding for Animal Services, Recreation and Parks, on-demand tree trimming services and graffiti abatement.
This year’s budget totals $14.85 billion, which is a 5.3 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. Revenues are expected to increase over last year’s, enabling the City to maintain a reserve of $515 million, well exceeding the City’s goal of five percent.
