As Mayor Cherelle Parker works to get her $6.7 billion proposed budget passed by the end of June, she and her entire cabinet have been barnstorming around the city, holding a series of town halls to explain the spending plan to residents.

There’s little doubt that the budget, which covers the 2026 fiscal year that starts next month, will win City Council approval during a series of hearings over the next three weeks.

But Parker said she nonetheless wants officials to get out of City Hall and into Philly’s neighborhoods, to lay out to the public how tax dollars are being spent and what they’re trying to accomplish.

Mayor Cherelle Parker spoke at a town hall at Deliverance Evangelistic Church in North Philadelphia. June 2, 2025. (Meir Rinde/Billy Penn)

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