Seattle City Council budget chair Teresa Mosqueda has unveiled her “balancing package” of amendments to Mayor Harrell’s proposed 2023 city budget. Her colleagues on the Council have until Wednesday to propose any further amendments, which will be discussed and voted on next week, with the final budget approval scheduled for …
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City of Seattle Revenue Forecast Update
Today the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic and Revenue Forecasts released its November update to its revenue forecast, which will provide final revenue numbers for the City Council’s 2023 budget. According to the forecast office, the 2023 General Fund total revenue forecast, according to their three economic scenarios: The …
Continue readingCity Council staff memo on 2023 budget “general fund” deficit
The Seattle City Council’s staff have published a budget memo detailing the issues with the predicted deficit for the General Fund. It summarizes where the deficit came from, the Mayor’s proposal to deal with it in his proposed 2023 budget, and various options for the Council to consider in building …
Continue readingMayor’s proposed 2023-2024 City of Seattle budget
This afternoon Mayor Harrell unveiled his proposed budget for 2023 and 2024. Here are some charts diving into the budget as a whole: And here are some drilling down on the SPD budget: Some of the more notable things in Harrell’s budget: I hope you found this article valuable. If …
Continue readingCity Council budget planning memo
Every August the City Council’s budget chair distributes a memo to colleagues and staff detailing the process that the Council will be using to construct and pass the following year’s city budget. Here is the memo that Budget Chair Mosqueda sent out last month for the 2023 budget process. I …
Continue readingCity of Seattle ARPA spending quarterly update
The City of Seattle’s budget office has submitted a new quarterly report on how federal ARPA funds have been spent to-date. I hope you found this article valuable. If you did, please take a moment to make a contribution to support my ongoing work. Thanks!
Continue readingSeattle city budget woes, spelled out
Last week the City Council was updated on 2022 city spending and the latest projections for revenues and expenditures for the next few years. The news was not good. In short: inflation has driven up expenses quickly, and the economic recovery is slower than prior forecasts predicted. So revenues are …
Continue readingSPD staffing update
This week the Seattle City Council’s central staff presented a mid-year update on SPD’s staffing and budget expenditures. Their slides contain all the details, including the latest SPD 911-call response times. I hope you found this article valuable. If you did, please take a moment to make a contribution to …
Continue readingContract to manage $30M Seattle participatory budgeting program
In April, the City of Seattle announced that it had selected the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) to manage the city’s $30 million participatory budgeting program, pending completion of a contract. Last Friday the contract with PBP was finally signed. PBP will be paid $2.75 million to run the program. PBP …
Continue readingSeattle Human Services Department “financial improvement plan”
For several years Seattle’s Human Services Department, which has one of the largest budgets in the city’s government, has had chronic issues with financial management. Last year the department began a “Financial Improvement PLan to address these issues. Below are the slides due to be presented by HSD to the …
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