Daily News | Five takeaways from Mayor Jim Kenney’s final budget proposal
, kicking off a four-month process known in City Hall as “budget season.”
Kenney’s plan would continue the city’s practice of incrementally decreasing the city’s wage tax, lowering the rate for Philadelphia residents from 3.79% to 3.7565%. It also asks Council to approve lowering the net income portion of the business income and receipts tax from 5.99% to 5.83%.
Kenney’s proposal includes a $55 million increase to the police budget, bringing the department’s total allocation to $855 million. The increase is to cover contractually obligated labor costs and new forensic specialists. The capital budget also includesThe mayor is also proposing to allocate nearly $10 million for the department to hire additional analysts to carry out its hotspot patrol strategy, which aims to shift resources in real time to areas where crime is spiking.
The plan also includes a $25 million increase to antiviolence programs outside law enforcement, bringing the allocation to those programs to about $233 million. The increase will fund stipends forwhich aims to connect people most likely to shoot or be shot with city services.
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