SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego City Mayor Todd Gloria presented his final budget draft to city council Monday afternoon. Now the Fiscal Year 2026 budget is in the hands of city council ahead of its approval by June 10.
Mayor Todd Gloria says the budget still maintains a focus on his administration’s top priorities: public safety, fixing the roads, reducing homelessness and building more housing to address the cost of living.
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“I acknowledge that the reductions we’ve been forced to make in order to balance this budget are painful. Now, I’m not happy about it, and I don’t expect any of you to be happy about it,” Gloria said to city council members Monday afternoon. “We have had to make significant cuts to balance the budget amid a deficit that started at 258 million dollars in the winter and grew by another 100 million.”
As soon as the Mayor’s first draft of budget cuts were released, residents made their voices heard through petitions and protests, including protesting the closure of the Northwestern Division Police Substation.
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria reveals final budget proposal
In the mayor’s second draft, he restored funding to keep the substation, but is not cutting staffing a second fire helicopter for 6 months…