View the FY 2025-2026 Adopted Budget

On February 6, 2025, the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget was submitted to the Mayor and City Council. Over the following weeks, the City held three budget hearings to receive feedback from residents. On March 20, 2025, Ordinance 250175 was passed which adopted the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget with amendments. Please reference the Adopted Budget Transmittal Letter near the front of the budget document to find a list of changes from the submitted to the adopted budget. 

Learn more about the 2025 budget process and timeline

The 2024-25 Budget was submitted to the Mayor and City Council on February 8, 2024. After several public hearings to gather community feedback, the final budget was adopted by Council on March 28, 2023. 

The 2023-24 Budget was submitted to the Mayor and City Council on February 9, 2023. After several public hearings to gather community feedback, the final budget was adopted by Council on March 23, 2023. Amendment B lists programmatic changes from the Submitted to the Adopted Budget as requested by the Mayor and Council, while Ordinance 230175 details  the final appropriations of the FY 2023-24 Adopted Budget - including amendments and PIAC distributions - for each fund by department and requisitioning authority (i.e., how much funding each department receives and who is authorized to spend it).

The Adopted 2025-2029 Citywide Business Plan includes the City’s Strategic Plan, Financial Strategic Plan, and the Five-Year Planning Model. The City’s Strategic Plan includes five City goals, with 25 departmental objectives and 122 strategies. This plan adds a fifth goal of Inclusive Growth and Development to the prior plan’s goals of Finance and Governance, Housing and Healthy Communities, Infrastructure and Accessibility, and Public Safety. Through the development of strategies, city departments can define what steps that they will need to take to achieve the objectives. Departments are also responsible for the tracking of milestones and actions, which serve as collection of steps that will work together to complete objectives within the time frame of the Citywide Business Plan and individual tasks to be completed.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a division of the Finance Department, develops the budget in alignment with the Citywide Business plan – which includes public input and performance-based priorities – creating a financial strategy for Kansas City that maximizes its resources to accomplish its near and long-term goals. A successful budget funds City programs, services, and initiatives to best serve the City of Kansas City’s mission, vision, and values, and ultimately improve quality of life for residents.

OMB also manages and coordinates the activities of the Public Improvements Advisory Committee (PIAC). The primary function of PIAC is to solicit resident input and make recommendations regarding both the citywide and neighborhood portions of the capital budget.