Pittsburgh 市长 Corey O'Connor 提交 2027 年预备预算：7.28 亿美元、不加税不裁员，五年缺口约 2.5 亿美元
位于宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼县的匹兹堡市，Pittsburgh 市长 Corey O'Connor 9月30日向市议会提交 2027 年度预备预算与五年财政计划，这是他今年1月上任后的首份预算草案。运营预算总额约 7.28 亿美元，资本预算约 1.45 亿美元，两者合计比本年度减少近 1,300 万美元；草案不加税、不裁员，并削减 27 个空缺职位。
预算草案动用约 2,650 万美元市府储蓄（雨天基金）实现账面平衡，并把养老金缴款每年减少约 700 万美元。O'Connor 在提交声明中说，经过十个月逐项审查，市府发现此前预算的五年计划「缺失了数亿美元」，财政危机「比我们担心的更严重、来得更快」；五年预测显示支出增速约为收入的两倍，雨天基金将在五年内基本耗尽。
O'Connor 在记者会上表示，他不愿削减核心市政服务：「如果不这样做，社区活动中心和泳池就会被关掉。我们不能在那样的地方养育家庭，我们不会退到那一步。」他表示，市府将靠增长策略、创造新机会与争取州、联邦和外部伙伴支持来收窄缺口。
市议会随后展开对草案的审议，10月上旬多名议员提出配套的预算透明改革法案，O'Connor 公开表示支持，称透明是扭转局面的长期关键。
据 Pittsburgh 市政府官网（pittsburghpa.gov）9月30日发布的市长声明及 WESA 报道。
Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O'Connor Submits 2027 Preliminary Budget: $728 Million, No Tax Increase or Layoffs, Five-Year Gap Near $250 Million
Pittsburgh is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O'Connor submitted his preliminary 2027 budget and five-year plan to City Council on September 30, his first budget draft since taking office in January. The $728 million operating budget and a companion $145 million capital budget amount to nearly $13 million less in expenditures than the current year. The plan includes no tax increases or layoffs and cuts 27 vacant positions.
The technically balanced draft covers costs by withdrawing about $26.5 million from the city's rainy-day savings and reduces the city's pension contribution by roughly $7 million a year. In his submission statement, O'Connor said a 10-month, line-by-line review found the inherited budget was "missing hundreds of millions of dollars from the five-year plan," and that the fiscal crisis "is worse than we feared and will hit sooner than expected." Five-year projections show expenditures growing at twice the rate of revenues, all but depleting the rainy-day fund within five years, with a cumulative gap of about $250 million.
"If we didn't do what we're doing right now, you're looking at rec centers being closed, pools being closed. We can't raise families if we don't have those amenities, and we're not gonna stoop to that level," O'Connor told reporters, saying growth, new partnerships and outside support must help close the deficit.
City Council has since taken up the draft, and in early October several councilors introduced companion budget-transparency reform bills, which O'Connor publicly supported.
Sources: Mayor's statement published by the City of Pittsburgh (pittsburghpa.gov) on September 30, 2026; WESA reporting.
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