Mayor Gloria's $4.89B proposed budget looks to boost San Diego infrastructure
SAN DIEGO — Mayor Todd Gloria Friday released his $4.89 billion Fiscal Year 2023 proposed budget, with a focus on repairing aging infrastructure, improving city services, enforcing new regulations, increasing pay for first responders and other city employees and reducing homelessness.
"We're making sure we have personnel to perform the work to address the backlog of repairs to streets, park facilities, and sidewalks, and to fix the storm drains that keep our beaches and waterways clean. However, Gloria's budget faced a shortfall this year and will use American Rescue Plan Act funds to replace lost revenue -- $123.5 million in ARPA funds this year, with the remaining balance of $55.8 million held back for next year.
The plan funds improvements to parks and recreation services, with an additional $4.3 million over the prior year's budget dedicated to recruitment and training of workers and addressing high staff turnover and vacancies by converting hourly staff to salaried positions. The budget will add $8 million to improve streets with upgraded traffic signals, sidewalks and curb ramps, traffic management, tree maintenance and graffiti and weed removal, as well as more than $77 million to resurface streets -- an increase of $27.6 million over the current budget.
The proposed budget lays out spending to continue to address homelessness, with an additional $13.6 million dedicated to increasing shelter capacity, services, and coordinated street outreach. Total funding for homelessness services is $63.3 million in this budget, with two-thirds of that sum coming from state and federal grant programs.
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