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Fargo residents press commission over 2026 budget cuts to transit, public safety and social services
Summary
At a public hearing on the preliminary 2026 budget, residents urged alternatives to proposed cuts that they say would disproportionately affect low‑income people, mass transit and frontline public‑safety services.
The Fargo City Commission opened a public hearing on the city’s preliminary 2026 budget and heard multiple speakers urging alternatives to proposed cuts to mass transit, social services and public‑safety programs. No budget vote was taken; staff said the commission will consider final adoption in two weeks.
City staff displayed a preliminary general fund balanced at just over $140,000,000 and said the hearing would inform the final budget. Christopher Cohn, a Fargo resident, urged the commission to avoid deep…
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