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Shreveport council adopts 2026 budgets, approves pay increases and equipment purchases
Summary
The City Council passed a package of 2026 budget ordinances and amendments across multiple funds, authorizing roughly $331 million in spending, pay adjustments for many city employees and capital purchases including police vehicles and sanitation equipment.
The Shreveport City Council completed adoption of a broad set of 2026 budgets, passing multiple ordinances and amendments that together the mayor described as an approximately $331,000,000 budget. Council members approved amendments to fund pay raises, equipment purchases and capital projects across the capital improvements, general, enterprise and special revenue funds.
Among the changes approved were provisions to provide 3% pay increases for many city employees (a phased implementation in May for most staff, with some police and fire changes described separately), funding for vehicle and equipment purchases (including patrol cars and garbage packers financed through certificates of indebtedness), and allocations to several special revenue funds. Council debated and voted on multiple numbered amendments before passing the ordinances as amended in a sequence of recorded votes.
Council members and the mayor framed the package as a negotiated result of a multi-day budget review and multiple amendments: "First of all, you passed a balanced budget. It's approximately $331,000,000 now," a city official said during closing discussion. Amendments included transfers to cover parity pay, appropriations for an HBCU classic football game, neighborhood planning funds, and appropriations to address pay increases in specific funds. Specific items approved include authorization for an external audit contract (Resolution 1 43), funding for the AMI water meter rehabilitation change order, and a transfer for purchase of sanitation packers.
Council members said staff and outside agencies will present additional details and that the administration will publish the changes and timelines. The ordinances and amendments were taken in sequence with floor discussion on specific items and were recorded as passing with required tallies.
