INDIANAPOLIS — The City-County Council’s passage of the 2025 City-County operating budget. It represents the eighth consecutive fully balanced budget. All of the recent budgets have been approved without tax increases or the selling of public assets.
The 2025 budget is more than $1.6 billion and includes funding of critical investments in public safety, violence reduction, road infrastructure, traffic and pedestrian safety, quality of life and quality of place. The 2025 budget will also better support the City and County employees who serve Indianapolis residents through updated collective bargaining agreements currently being negotiated with local labor unions and cost of living adjustments for non-union employees across the enterprise.
Some highlights of the budget include:
• A continuation of the five-year, $1 billion infrastructure plan that will allow the Department of Public Works (Indy DPW) to continue repaving streets, resolving traffic issues, improving safety for vulnerable road users and fixing stormwater issues in the public right-of-way.
• At $338 million, IMPD’s budget represents a 4% increase from the previous year. This budget sustains the funding for 1,743 officers and adds seven new professional staff positions to enhance the department’s efficiency and transparency. It also prioritizes investments in technology, including the maintenance of body-worn cameras, license plate readers, and public safety cameras.
• Indy Peace will continue to be fully funded in the 2025 budget after first being transitioned from ARPA funding to sustainable City budget dollars in the 2024 budget. Indianapolis saw a 32% reduction in criminal homicides during the first two years of this strategy’s implementation.
• After existing for nearly a decade as a division of the Department of Business and Neighborhood Services (DBNS), Indianapolis Animal Care Services (IACS) will become its own independent agency starting January 1, 2025. As a standalone agency, IACS will see its budget increase by more than one $1 million.
More information about the budget and budgeting process is available at indy.gov/activity/city-and-county-budget.