Monday's budget workshop agenda (August 10, 9am) is one item for discussing the Mobility Funds - Transportation & Stormwater. These funds sit between the enterprise funds from the first workshop and the general fund departments coming at the third. Each has revenue of its own. Transportation is primarly funded through gas taxes and grants while stormwater relies on assessment assessments.
Also in this group is Infrastructure & Mobility Administration, the small administrative office over both departments — five positions and about $1.2 million for FY27. Its budget is nearly all salaries, so it is noted here without charts.
Jump to a department: Transportation · Stormwater Engineering
Transportation
The FY27 recommended budget is $65.7 million, down from $78.5 million in FY26. The decrease is on the capital side: $13.4 million in new project money, less than half of FY26's $28.6 million. Street resurfacing gets $5 million, the Tampa Multi-Modal Network and Safety Improvements program $4 million, and UNITE: Ashley Drive $2 million. Several annual programs have no FY27 money at all — Vision Zero, traffic signals, sidewalk construction. They are slated to return in FY28, funded by the renewed Community Investment Tax. Streetcar infrastructure, a $250,000-a-year line in prior budgets, is absent from the entire five-year plan.
Two notes for reading the charts. The gas taxes that help fund the department are levied per gallon, not per dollar, so that revenue sits flat at $11.4 million year after year while costs rise. And the FY26 spending bar is the city's projection, inflated by capital dollars carried forward from earlier years — the recommended budget that year was $78.5 million.
Source: City of Tampa budget books FY2024–FY2027 via OpenGov
| Category | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended budget | $69,539,362.00 | $61,586,839.00 | $78,507,730.00 | $65,699,691.00 |
| Actual (FY26 = city projection) | $57,614,904.00 | $76,003,000.00 | $211,755,331.00 | $0.00 |
Source: City of Tampa budget books FY2024–FY2027 via OpenGov
| Category | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personnel | $18,725,894.00 | $21,408,969.00 | $25,124,997.00 | $25,640,459.00 |
| Operating | $17,422,345.00 | $17,262,573.00 | $17,324,613.00 | $17,963,732.00 |
| Capital | $16,232,625.00 | $31,716,501.00 | $167,044,071.00 | $13,388,310.00 |
| Debt | $0.00 | $77,270.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Other | $5,106,330.00 | $5,533,388.00 | $2,209,392.00 | $8,357,190.00 |
| Grants | $127,710.00 | $4,299.00 | $52,258.00 | $350,000.00 |
Source: City of Tampa budget books FY2024–FY2027 via OpenGov
| Category | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intergovernmental | $14,256,608.00 | $42,396,643.00 | $24,801,811.00 | $27,042,096.00 |
| Other | $27,261,000.00 | $31,360,070.00 | $18,663,584.00 | $18,492,228.00 |
| Taxes | $11,113,010.00 | $11,058,424.00 | $11,060,000.00 | $11,424,000.00 |
| Licenses and Permits | $7,587,289.00 | $5,129,550.00 | $4,630,248.00 | $2,207,367.00 |
| Charges for Services | $340,955.00 | $502,280.00 | $522,814.00 | $434,000.00 |
Stormwater Engineering
Stormwater Engineering's $40.5 million recommended budget is the lowest of the four-year term. The department runs on the stormwater assessment collected with property tax bills, budgeted at $31.9 million for FY27. New capital money is $7 million, led by $4.5 million for pump station resiliency upgrades. The annual rehabilitation programs for box culverts and ditches are budgeted at half of what last year's book had planned for them this year. And South Howard flood relief — a $6 million-a-year fixture of earlier five-year plans — does not appear in the FY27 capital book at all.
The staffing cut from FY26 holds: 94 positions budgeted, down from the 103 the department carried the first two years of the term. On the revenue chart, note that grant money is never in the recommended budget but reliably shows up in actuals — $16.2 million in FY24, $11.4 million in FY25. That, plus capital carried forward year to year, is why actual spending runs well above the recommended budget every year.
Source: City of Tampa budget books FY2024–FY2027 via OpenGov
| Category | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended budget | $47,955,006.00 | $40,379,293.00 | $50,453,675.00 | $40,500,546.00 |
| Actual (FY26 = city projection) | $66,304,461.00 | $55,736,560.00 | $153,487,464.00 | $0.00 |
Source: City of Tampa budget books FY2024–FY2027 via OpenGov
| Category | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personnel | $11,720,538.00 | $12,347,263.00 | $12,596,307.00 | $13,430,368.00 |
| Operating | $6,945,146.00 | $9,039,532.00 | $8,863,242.00 | $7,756,655.00 |
| Capital | $35,981,108.00 | $23,134,400.00 | $120,440,843.00 | $7,000,000.00 |
| Debt | $911,795.00 | $565,879.00 | $855,000.00 | $855,000.00 |
| Other | $10,745,874.00 | $10,649,485.00 | $10,732,072.00 | $11,458,523.00 |
Source: City of Tampa budget books FY2024–FY2027 via OpenGov
| Category | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Licenses and Permits | $31,351,152.00 | $31,493,018.00 | $31,844,454.00 | $31,875,000.00 |
| Other | $41,887,299.00 | $9,499,164.00 | $8,066,440.00 | $8,625,546.00 |
| Intergovernmental | $16,163,308.00 | $11,372,412.00 | $3,709,752.00 | $0.00 |
Notes
You will see a lot of "other" buckets. Often these are transfers. Click through to the source to drill down deeper.
Budget figures are each year's recommended number from its own budget book — a consistent basis, but not what council ultimately adopted. FY26 has no actual yet; its spending bars are the city's in-year projections, which bundle capital carried forward from prior years. That is why the FY26 bars tower over every other year here, especially for transportation. This series is meant to provide overviews and entry points to the budget.
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