Committee on Executive Administration and Labor approves FY26 budget report, adds transfers for senior services and Pathways workforce funds

Councilmember Anita Bonds, chairwoman of the Committee on Executive Administration and Labor, opened an additional committee meeting Monday and moved the committee's report and recommendations on the mayor's proposed FY26 operating budgets for agencies under the committee's purview. The committee recommended approval of budgets for the Executive Office of the Mayor, the Office of the City Administrator, the Office of the Secretary, the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel, the Department on Aging and Community Living (DACL), labor and workforce agencies, and election- and accountability-related offices, and the committee voted to approve the report unanimously with leave for staff to make technical and conforming changes.

The committee's report recommends the Executive Office of the Mayor (EOM) receive a FY26 allocation of $31,700,000 supporting 175 full-time equivalents (FTEs); the Office of the City Administrator, $10,230,000 supporting 64 FTEs; the Office of the Secretary, $5,400,000 and 29 FTEs; and the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel, $1,800,000 and 10 FTEs. Councilmember Bonds said the EOM increase of roughly 45% from the prior year largely reflects a rebalancing of personnel and shifts in subsidies and grants rather than a pure expansion of operating programs.

On senior services, the committee reported the mayor's FY26 proposal for the Department on Aging and Community Living at $62,200,000, a decrease Bonds described as about 4.3% (roughly $2.8 million) from FY25 funding and supporting about 121.8 FTEs. The committee said it accepted inter-committee transfers and other changes to restore and…