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With the Mayor’s priorities and City Budget Office forecasts as guidance, City staff work with the City Administrator to develop budget options. These options include estimates of current service level costs and potential scenarios for addressing gaps and issues.
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March 2026 General Fund Forecast Update
Budget Concepts
In preparation for another challenging budget year, Mayor Wilson directed city service areas last November to outline the costs of maintaining current services, as well as producing 3% and 10% reduction options for the General Fund and 5% options for rate-charging bureaus.
This process was designed to identify a range of potential options to inform the important decisions facing the City of Portland in the upcoming budget cycle.
The options included in this document illustrate impacts and tradeoffs that could be considered – they are not intended to represent final decisions or the only possible approaches.
Some of the items may move forward in the Mayor's Proposed budget as originally presented. Others may move forward, but with significant modifications. Many will not move forward at all. Their purpose is to offer a sense of the potential impacts under different options.
Scenario-based planning in budgeting is a common practice. Many municipalities prepare reduction scenarios to help leadership and the community understand trade-offs and make informed decisions, particularly during challenging fiscal years.
Mayor Wilson will continue to meet with Councilors to gather input and understand their priorities as part of the process of information-gathering and prioritizing. This information will be incorporated into the first iteration of a balanced budget for the City, as mandated by Charter.