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192070

Ordinance

Adopt the annual budget of the City and establish appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026

Passed
Amended by Council

The City of Portland ordains.

Section 1.  The Council finds:

  1. The Multnomah County Tax Supervising and Conservation Commission (TSCC) held its public hearing on the City’s FY 2026-26 Approved Budget on June 10, 2025 and certified the budget and approved tax levies.
     
  2. The FY 2026-26 Adopted Budget document will provide specific position and expenditure authorization and revenue detail for all City bureaus and funds. 
     
  3. It is advisable to update the estimates of resources and requirements contained in the Approved Budget prior to final adoption, as allowed under Oregon Revised Statutes.
     
  4. The significant changes to be incorporated in the Adopted Budget are included in Attachments B, C, D, and E.
     
  5. This ordinance includes updates to the City’s Classification and Compensation plans in accordance with approved Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA). Attachments F, G, and H provide detailed information for specific updates.
     
  6. Any of the organizational units named in the Budget Appropriations Schedule that are not expressly codified as City Bureaus in City Code Title 3 “Administration” are considered organizational units pursuant to ORS 294.456 Section (3)(a) which states "the appropriations required […] must contain: One amount for each organizational unit or program of each fund.”

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

  1. The FY 2025-26 Budget for the City is hereby adopted in the total amount of $8,638,585,121.
  2. In accordance with the FY 2025-26 Budget adopted in Section 1.A of this ordinance and ORS 294.456, expenditure amounts are hereby appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, from the funds and for the purposes listed in Attachment E, Appropriation Schedule – FY 2025-26 (Volume One, Table 2 in the budget document). This schedule of appropriations incorporates the changes referenced in Attachments B and C.
  3. The Mayor and the Auditor are hereby authorized to draw warrants on the appropriations made in Section 1.B of this ordinance as provided in Section 2-105 of the City Charter.
  4. The number of authorized positions is hereby limited to the number of such positions listed for each bureau in the FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget (Volume One, Table 8 in the budget document) unless otherwise authorized by Council. The Mayor, the Commissioners, and the Auditor, within their respective jurisdictions, are authorized to fill vacant positions in accordance with the Bureau of Human Resources’ administrative rules unless otherwise directed by Council. Salaries for each appointee shall be set in accordance with the City Compensation Plan unless otherwise directed by Council.
  5. Special expenditure limitations are hereby established as follows:
    1. Expenditures may not exceed the amounts listed for the appropriation categories in Attachment E, Appropriation Schedule – FY 2025-26 (Volume One, Table 2 in the budget document), as amended throughout the fiscal year by the appropriate authority. The appropriation categories include bureau program expenses, contingency, interfund cash transfers, and debt service.
    2. Bureaus and organizational units may adjust their line-item budgets as needed, subject to the following limitations:
      1. Adjustments may not change the appropriation amounts shown in Attachment E, Appropriation Schedule – FY 2025-26 (Volume One, Table 2 in the budget document) except with approval from Council as provided for in ORS 294.463, 294.338, or 294.481, or through the supplemental budget process provided for in ORS 294.481 and ORS 294.471.
    3. Any budget adjustment that changes an internal materials and services amount or an interfund transfer amount must be agreed to by both parties.
    4. Expenditures on federal and state grant projects are limited to those grants that have been accepted and approved by Council.
  6. The City Budget Office is directed to prepare reports to Council regarding budgetary performance and fiscal status and is authorized to require City bureaus to submit such information as is necessary to prepare these reports, including the status of budget notes included in the FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget.
  7. The FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget will include the budget notes as presented in Attachment D. Council directs bureaus to ensure proper attention is given to compliance with budget notes.
  8. The Council directs that the salary rates for non-represented classifications be increased by 2.4% on or up to the first $100,000 of salary effective July 1, 2025 within the constraints of the classification rates reflected in Attachments F, G, and H.
  9. The actions adopting the annual budget of the City and establishing appropriations contained in this ordinance are binding City policy.


An ordinance when passed by the Council shall be signed by the Auditor. It shall be carefully filed and preserved in the custody of the Auditor (City Charter Chapter 2 Article 1 Section 2-122)

Passed as amended by Council

Auditor of the City of Portland
Simone Rede

Impact Statement

Purpose of Proposed Legislation and Background Information

The ordinance must be passed by Council to prepare the City for the beginning of a new fiscal year on July 1, 2025. This item adopts the annual budget of the City in the total amount of $8,638,585,121 and establishes appropriations for FY 2025-26. 

Financial and Budgetary Impacts

The ordinance adopts a total budget of $8,638,585,121 including program expenses of $4,491,210,534. The ordinance anticipates a variety of revenues and expenditures but does not directly generate those revenues or incur the expenses. The ordinance also creates, eliminates, and reclassifies positions. In total, a net of 41.9 FTE positions are reduced in the FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget compared to the FY 2024-25 Revised Budget. 

Economic and Real Estate Development Impacts

Not applicable.

Community Impacts and Community Involvement

The City’s annual budget includes multiple programmatic changes that will impact the community. These programmatic changes invest resources and reallocate internal resources into bureau programs as articulated in the Adopted Budget. A three-member Community Budget Advisory Board was invited to sit in on budget discussions with the Mayor and Council as the budget was developed. There were Council work sessions held to discuss the FY 2025-26 Budget process in April and May of 2025. Council conducted four listening sessions in March and April of 2025 as well. Public comment has been solicited on the City Budget Office website, and in accordance with Oregon Local Budget Law, live public testimony was received on May 7th, 2025 during the Mayor's Proposed Budget Hearing and will be heard again on May 21st, 2025. Council members receive weekly emails from the CBO compiling the written comments received by the public through the online portal. 

100% Renewable Goal

This action does not directly impact the 100% renewable goal. 

Financial and Budget Analysis

Analysis provided by City Budget Office

The ordinance adopts a total budget of $8,638,585,121. Of this amount, $8,479,992,777 exists in the legally-binding appropriation schedule, with the remaining $158,592,344 existing in unappropriated ending fund balance and debt service reserve budgets—neither of which are appropriated by the Council per state budget law.
 
The appropriated budget includes program expenses totaling $4,491,210,534. A breakout of program expenses will be detailed in Volume 3 of the Adopted Budget book, expected to be published in late July.
 
The ordinance anticipates a variety of revenues and expenditures but does not directly generate those revenues or incur the expenses. This budget contains new fees and surcharges that have never been collected and thus their actualization will be groundtruthed as part of analysis of FY 2025-26 revenue actuals via budget-to-actuals monitoring. There exists some risk that projected revenues and planned expenditure reductions will not be actualized, resulting in a need for budget and policy flexibility which can be reviewed and processed through the City Budget Office's Budget Monitoring Processes and addressed by the Council via supplemental budgets.
 
The ordinance also creates, eliminates, and reclassifies positions. In total, a net of 41.9 FTE are reduced in the FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget compared to the FY 2024-25 Revised Budget. CBO notes that position figures do not represent staffed positions but rather position authority and may include limited-term positions budgeted by bureaus.
 

Economic and Real Estate Development Analysis

Analysis provided by Prosper Portland

An Economic and Real Estate Development Impact Analysis was not submitted for this proposed action. Pursuant to City Council Resolution 37664, Prosper Portland staff has reviewed the action and agree that it does not require an Economic and Real Estate Development Impact Analysis.

Document History

Document number: 2025-240

President's referral: City Council

Agenda Council action
Regular Agenda
City Council
Continued
Motion to adopt the changes as reflected in Attachments A through H: Moved by Kanal and seconded by Koyama Lane. Vote not called.

Continued to June 11, 2025 at 9:30 a.m.
Regular Agenda
City Council
Passed to second reading as amended
Motion to adopt the changes as reflected in Attachments A through H: Moved by Kanal and seconded by Koyama Lane. Motion withdrawn.

Appeal to sustain the Council President's ruling on the point of order: Morillo, Avalos, and Green. (Aye (5): Ryan, Novick, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (7): Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Clark, Green, Avalos, Dunphy). Motion failed to pass.

Motion to adopt Attachments B through H: Moved by Dunphy and seconded by Morillo. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)

Passed to second reading as amended June 18, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Regular Agenda
City Council
Passed As Amended

Votes
  • Aye (11):
    • Kanal
    • Ryan
    • Koyama Lane
    • Morillo
    • Novick
    • Clark
    • Green
    • Zimmerman
    • Avalos
    • Smith
    • Pirtle-Guiney
  • Abstain (1):
    • Dunphy

Document number

2025-240

Introduced by

City department

Contact

Ruth Levine

Director, City Budget Office

Agenda Type

Regular

Date and Time Information

Meeting Date
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