In her first budget as mayor, Mary Sheffield proposed new offices focused on homelessness services and older residents, expanded youth programming, a living-wage standard for city employees, money for legacy pension retirees, and millions of dollars for long-overdue sidewalk repairs.
Sheffield presented the more than $1.5 billion general fund budget in a packed City Council meeting room, the first time in more than a decade that a newly elected mayor has set the city’s spending priorities.
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