Boston Streets Cabinet Presents $206 Million FY26 Budget to City Council

BOSTON — May 20, 2025 — Boston's Streets Cabinet pitched a $206.2 million FY26 operating budget to the City Council Committee on Ways and Means, up $12.8 million from the prior year. Streets Cabinet Chief Yasha Franklin-Hodge and a panel of department officials told Chair Brian Worrell and colleagues including Sharon Durkan, John FitzGerald, Erin J. Murphy, and Gabriela Coletta Zapata that the increase is driven almost entirely by new residential trash contracts with Capital Waste Services that guaranteed 66 trucks and 129 workers daily and produced a 27 percent drop in 311 missed trash complaints in their first year. BTD Commissioner Nick Gove reported that a Sunday parking enforcement pilot generated nearly $3.7 million in revenue and more than 70,000 violations over the past year, with the division now at its highest staffing level in a decade at 151 filled positions. Franklin-Hodge warned that roughly $100 million in discretionary federal transportation grants to the city are at risk from federal funding uncertainty, with projects in Roxbury, Allston, and along the Green Line potentially affected. The capital plan, which at $1.3 to $1.4 billion represents about a third of the city's entire capital budget, funded a record 24 miles of repaving and 1,650 ADA curb ramps in 2024.