Philadelphia’s budget director, Sabrina Maynard, and treasurer, Jackie Dunn, tell us how the city’s nearly $7-billion budget is set, who sets it, and who decides how the money is allocated.
Maynard encourages anyone who is interested in Philly’s budget to attend an upcoming community town hall. For more information on the budget, you can read the city’s quarterly finance reports and its five-year plan.
Maynard and Dunn spoke to the Hall Monitor on our Feb. 18, 2026, weekly livestream.
For more coverage of the budget, and to see which projects get funded and why, watch the Hall Monitor’s livestream every Wednesday at 6pm EST on our YouTube channel.
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