Budget Initiatives

The Office of Management & Budget leads and participates in various policy initiatives in partnership with offices and departments across city government. Learn about the changes and special initiatives we're working on to bring the city closer to its goals of achieving fiscal sustainability.

A New Website: syr.gov

Learn how the city of Syracuse is redesigning its website and digital content to better deliver information, city self-services, and engage the public.

Balancing Act

Learn about the city's focus on public engagement and public education on city finances and budget using Balancing Act, budget engagement and simulation software.

Business Growth Accelerator Program

Learn how the City of Syracuse is accelerating growth among New York State minority-owned businesses (MWBEs) in the construction trades, known as the CNY/Mohawk Valley Business Growth Accelerator.

Community Violence Intervention Plan

A proposed policy for gang associates to address root causes and reduce violent crimes generated by gang conflicts. This policy also supports multiagency effort to tackle high-risk physical features in high-crime areas.

Connecting the Historic 15th Ward

Learn how the City of Syracuse and partners are dedicating resources, knowledge, and capacity to create a more connected and inclusively developed neighborhood in the core of the city.

Distressed Property Fund

Learn about the City of Syracuse's investment program supporting the redevelopment and improvement of vacant, distressed commercial, mixed-use, and historic properties.

Heritage Park

This is to support the Heritage Park Project

Municipal Sidewalk Program

Learn about resident responsibilities to maintain steps, sidewalks, and similar areas in good repair to assure safe travel under normal use and weather conditions.

Purple Heart City

Mayor Walsh proclaims the City of Syracuse a Purple Heart City.

ReLeaf Syracuse

ReLeaf Syracuse is a program that helps grow and nurture trees in Syracuse. It also sets goals and makes plans for how to keep our city's trees healthy and thriving in the future.

Resurgent Neighborhoods Initiative

Learn about the Mayor's Resurgent Neighborhoods Initiative (RNI), a citywide housing and business growth plan that aligns neighborhood investment planning and stakeholder engagement at a “block-level” in all four quadrants within the city.

ReZone Syracuse

ReZone Syracuse is the comprehensive revision of the City’s Zoning Ordinance and Map.

Speed Hump Pilot Program

Learn about how the City of Syracuse will be installing pilot speed humps to deter speeding on city streets and improve pedestrian safety.

Surveillance Technology Working Group

Learn how the city of Syracuse is ensuring the proper vetting and transparency of surveillance technology use by city government.

Sustainable Syracuse Initiative

Learn how the city of Syracuse is working with community and government agencies to accelerate progress toward a more inclusive and sustainable city.

Syracuse Build

In 2020, Mayor Ben Walsh launched Syracuse Build to create an inclusive and proficient infrastructure workforce.

Syracuse Hometown Heroes

In May 2024, Mayor Ben Walsh and the Syracuse Parks Conservancy launched the Syracuse Hometown Heroes banner program.

Syracuse Housing Strategy

Learn more about the Syracuse Housing Strategy, a multi-year framework for improving housing conditions in the City of Syracuse.

Syracuse Local Waterfront Revitalization Program

Learn how the city of Syracuse is re-imagining the City's waterfront area along Onondaga Lake and the Inner Harbor.

Syracuse STEAM School

The City of Syracuse, the Syracuse City School District, Onondaga County and Onondaga, Cortland and Madison County BOCES are collaborating on the region's first ever STEAM high school.

Syracuse Surge

Learn about Syracuse Surge, the Mayor's strategy for inclusive growth in the new economy.

Tick and Deer Management

The City undertakes targeted removal of deer in response to public health and safety concerns like deer-vehicle accidents; parks, gardens, and the ecosystem; and public health risks, like Lyme Disease.

Trash and Recycling Carts

Learn how the City of Syracuse rolled out new lidded trash and recycling carts for safer, cleaner, and more efficient semi-automated pickup.

Tree Ordinance Modernization

The goal of this project is to analyze current city codes and ordinances impacting trees, compile and review data, and solicit stakeholder and community feedback to develop a new, updated Municipal Tree Ordinance that will be used to carry out the recommendations of the adopted Syracuse Urban Forest Master Plan (2020) over the next 20 years.

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