The mayor's proposed 2027 budget is $1.898 billion, about 11% more than 2026. This page lines up nine years of spending and six years of revenue from the city's own budget books, then breaks the 2027 proposal down department by department so you can click into any one of them.
The budget books group every agency into five functions. Public safety is IMPD, IFD, the Office of Public Health & Safety and 911. Criminal justice is the Sheriff, courts, prosecutor, public defender, Community Corrections, coroner and forensics. Community development & infrastructure covers DPW, Parks, DMD, Business & Neighborhood Services and Animal Care.
A = actual spending, AD = adopted, P = proposed. Not adjusted for inflation. 2020–2021 debt includes one-time debt and pension transactions, and 2022–2024 executive/administrative spending is inflated by one-time money run through those accounts, most likely federal pandemic relief (ARPA). Compare those years with care.
Almost every function grows. The biggest jump by far is infrastructure, driven by the new state road program: $50M from the state, contingent on a $50M local match that has to grow every year through 2031. That match is the fight behind the wheel tax veto and override.
Local property and income taxes are more than half of revenue. Intergovernmental money (state gas tax, state road dollars, federal grants) is the swing factor: it spiked in 2022 with pandemic relief, dropped, and is climbing again with the state road match.
"Everything else" is charges for services, licenses and permits, fines, other taxes such as the wheel tax, investment earnings and other receipts. Investment earnings alone fell from $54M in 2024 to a projected $30M in 2027.
All 35 departments and agencies in the 2027 budget book. Click one to see where its money comes from, what it pays for, what changed for 2027, and what the department says it's working on. Numbers are all funds, including grants and pensions, so they're higher than the general-fund figures you sometimes see quoted.
The city sorts all spending into five categories it calls "characters." Definitions below are from the budget book (page 55), in plain language.
| Item | 2027 proposal | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Roads, bridges and greenways | $267M | state road match program begins |
| Stormwater projects | $39.2M | |
| Housing initiatives | $72M | spread across DMD, OPHS and others |
| Low-barrier shelter operations (150 beds) | $2.7M | Housing Hub opens summer 2027 |
| IMPD North District HQ + DPW facility (bonds) | $27.5M | bonds, outside the operating totals |
| Flock license plate cameras | ≈ $1M a year | up to $6M over 4 years, ~400 cameras, under the contract approved in late 2024. Likely inside IMPD's "Other Services and Charges"; not broken out in the budget book. |
From news coverage of the Aug. 10 presentation and committee hearings, not the budget book.