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MobileGR outlines FY26 priorities: Vital Streets investments, staffing and parking maintenance
Summary
At the July 10 MobileGR Commission meeting, staff and city engineers reviewed fiscal year 2026 transportation and parking priorities, including staffing hires, grant-funded safety projects, sidewalk ownership under Vital Streets and multi-year planning requests.
MobileGR staff and city engineers briefed the MobileGR Commission on July 10, 2025 about fiscal year 2026 priorities and example investments tied to the city's Vital Streets program, budget constraints from a financial systems transition and planned follow-up reporting in September.
Director Jessica Smith told the commission she had planned to bring detailed numbers but could not access all line-item data because the city's financial system was undergoing a transition. "Instead of giving you something that could be inaccurate, I decided not to go super detailed," Smith said, and she pledged a more detailed September briefing when the systems are available.
Smith and staff outlined key FY26 example investments and staffing requests. Items identified in the presentation included recurring and grant-funded safety and multimodal investments: $200,000 annually for pedestrian push-button…
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