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Mayor’s executive order reorganizes city divisions and shifts staff as council examines mayor’s office budget increase
Summary
City staff presented an executive order to reorganize the mayor’s office and several departments and described technical budget changes; councilors asked for line-item reconciliations and department-head names before approving final FY26 allocations.
City staff walked the council through an executive order that would revise the charter organization and reassign several functions across new divisions and departments, and discussed technical budget changes tied to the reorganization during a May budget hearing.
According to a presentation from the mayor’s office, the executive order creates two divisions: public administration (reported to cover roughly 61% of the budget and about 2,167 employees) and public safety (about 28% of the budget and roughly 2,067 employees). Staff said the two divisions together would manage about 89% of the city’s operating budget and roughly 4,200 employees.
The reorganization also establishes three departments the presentation named explicitly: a Department of Neighborhoods and Planning, a Department of Animal Services (moved under public safety) and a Department of Resilience and Equity (elevating the mayor’s prior Office of Resilience and Equity to…
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