SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — After weeks of public scrutiny and council pushback, the City of San Diego finally has a budget for 2026.<\/p>\n
The $6 billion budget plan had been highly contested for months, from community members to public officials.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the City Council voted 6-3 to override some of Mayor Todd Gloria\u2019s vetoes. A full override didn’t get the votes it needed, so the council picked and chose a few items to keep in the mayor’s vetoes.<\/p>\n
The stormwater contingency and brush management items are to keep a part of the original funding. Library hours, beach fire pits, and operation hours at Lake Miramar and Lake Murray will stay.<\/p>\n
The council is keeping the mayor’s vetoes on homelessness outreach funding, and the chief operating officer position which will be held by Gloria.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of these restorations are certainly better than none,\u201d said Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera.<\/p>\n
Gloria fired back at the overrides in a statement, saying, \u201cIf their assumptions don\u2019t hold, they\u2019ll be responsible for the fallout: midyear cuts, layoffs, facility closures, brownouts, and broken promises to the communities we all serve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier, he spoke to the council, threatening not to sign the budget if the council overrides all vetoes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be crystal clear. Should this council choose to override my veto entirely, you are endorsing a level of risk that I cannot support and that I will not support. That budget will not carry my signature,\u201d said Gloria.<\/p>\n
Now, with a partial override, it’s unclear if the budget will have his support.<\/p>\n
It’s still set to go into effect on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — After weeks of public scrutiny and council pushback, the City of San Diego finally…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,11880,11881,11882,7264,11883,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-10981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-2026-budget","13":"tag-san-diego-budget","14":"tag-san-diego-city-budget","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-todd-gloria","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114738911516866266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}