INDIANAPOLIS — Faced with declining property tax revenues due to changes in the state funding formula, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett will go before the City-County Council Monday night to propose a $1.7 billion 2026 budget that includes four percent spending cuts across many city agencies but protects public safety.

”The areas of public safety, like IMPD, like IFD, like IEMS, those agencies that are dedicated to keeping our people safe, they didn’t get budget increases,” said the mayor.

The proposed budgets for IMPD, IFD and the Marion County Sheriff's Office total approximately $800 million, while budgets for the courts, prosecutors, animal control and other public safety and criminal justice agencies add another quarter billion dollars to the plan, leaving a limited number of agencies

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