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Committee reallocates $3 million of workforce funding to lower projected budget deficit

Neighborhoods Committee · January 10, 2026

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Summary

Committee approved bill 20250873 to set aside $3 million from a previously authorized workforce grant to reduce the city's projected $68 million budget deficit to $65 million next year.

The Neighborhoods Committee approved bill 20250873, reallocating $3,000,000 from a previously authorized $15,000,000 workforce-development package to address an anticipated budget shortfall.

Vice President Nick Howland described the measure as using $3,000,000 of previously authorized funds—part of a $15,000,000 package in which UNF had been allocated $6,000,000—to reduce a projected $68,000,000 budget deficit next year to $65,000,000. "This bill takes that 3,000,000... to reduce that $68,000,000 budget deficit to $65,000,000," Howland said. Council staff confirmed the funding source and several members asked clarifying questions about reserves and the original appropriations. Multiple members added themselves as cosponsors and the committee approved the bill by unanimous voice vote.

The action sets aside the funding to meet a known obligation next fiscal year and is intended as a fiscally conservative measure to reduce the projected gap.