The biggest dollar changes in stable five-year series.
The trend measure is the City’s Net Requirement Before Indirect Revenues: the amount left after direct service revenues, before allocated indirect revenue is applied. It is neither gross spending nor the final Net Tax Levy.
For example, the City’s 2026 table shows Police Services at $41.3M in Net Requirement Before Indirect Revenues, then −$2.7M in Allocated Indirect Revenue, producing a $38.5M Net Tax Levy. The five-year comparisons below deliberately use the first measure consistently.
Open the official 2026 table ↗Transit’s net operating requirement is roughly flat compared with 2022, even though ridership has been recovering.
The Airport's comparable net requirement is slightly lower in 2026 than it was in 2022.
Some City reorganizations cannot be compared cleanly across all five years.
Public Works, recreation/culture, planning and corporate administration have changed structure. The detailed explorer uses shorter comparison windows rather than pretending those reorganizations are real spending jumps.