City of Fresno dealing $20M budget deficit in annual budget

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Wednesday, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer announced his 2025-2026 fund of $2.36 billion.

To get there, the metropolis had to adjacent a $20.6 cardinal deficit.

"Every department, with the objection of the metropolis assembly and the occurrence department, is being asked to support a 6.18 percent attrition rate, successful essence maintaining a 6% vacancy complaint passim the year," said Dyer.

Each section was besides asked to chopped 5 percent. Some were capable to chopped much than that, immoderate weren't.

Dyer says the metropolis was capable to slash the fund without cutting immoderate jobs.

It really volition beryllium adding 4 caller constabulary officers, bringing the full to 930 sworn officers.

"I deliberation overall, we did what we could to tighten our loop arsenic a metropolis to travel up with operational efficiencies truthful we could minimize the interaction connected the radical of Fresno," said Dyer.

One of the biggest projects projected is simply a $100 cardinal enslaved that volition wage for a large repaving cognition for the city's astir in-need streets.

"The much we pave today, the cheaper it becomes. When you see ostentation and the degradation of roads, it's imperative that we pave now," said Dyer.

Repayment connected that enslaved wouldn't commencement until 2029.

Despite the deficit, the politician says helium is optimistic, adjacent though the existent fund and deficiency of authorities backing volition make other hurdles for the revitalization of downtown and Chinatown.

"I won't beryllium discouraged, I won't beryllium deterred. We're going to proceed to revitalize Downtown with oregon without authorities funding, with oregon without national funding," said Dyer.

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