Baltimore City budget

Overtime hours are expected to be lower this year at below 900,000.

Councilwoman Odette Ramos demands Mayor Brandon Scott to more than double the budget to cover legal services and wraparound support.

Last year two sanitation workers died on the clock, including Ron Silver II’s death from heat stroke.

Released early Wednesday morning, Mayor Brandon Scott’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2026 tries to close an $85M budget gap without cutting services.

Nearly half of that, about $33 million, went to the Baltimore City Fire Department to cover overtime for sworn positions and unexpected contracting costs for fire and EMS services.

The Baltimore City Council on Monday passed Mayor Brandon Scott’s 2025 budget without amendments.

Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry, who sits on the city's financial decision-making committee, joins Midday to discuss the critical components of the proposed 2025 city budget, which the City Council has until June 26 to adopt.

Mayor Scott called reforming electronic home monitoring his “biggest priority” for this session.

For the first time in 125 years, the council has the power to cut and add from the budget proposal.

Mayor Scott gives an update on Baltimore City's Summer youth engagement strategy, the need for new hires in his administration and the 2024 city budget.