City Administrator warns of sharp fiscal pressures; highlights program work including Sun Bucks and gun violence grants

City Administrator Kevin Donahue told the Committee on Executive Administration and Labor on March 6 that the Office of the City Administrator will transmit a balanced FY26 budget to the Council in early April but that the administration faces ‘‘a difficult year’’ of revenue constraints and program reductions.

Donahue said the OCA coordinates the district’s operating and capital budgets, performance management, and several cross‑cutting offices such as the Lab at DC, the Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP), the Office of Racial Equity (ORE), the Office of Budget and Performance Management (OBM), and a newly organized Sustainable Urban Infrastructure team that now oversees Vision Zero and the Highway Safety Office. He described OBM’s routine ‘‘cap stat’’ performance meetings and said the office held 18 such meetings in FY24 and has continued them into FY25 to focus on budget formulation and operational issues.

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