Mayor Exercises Veto Power to Trim Almost $5 Million From Budget Passed by Council

Mayor Gloria vetoes several items in San Diego's 2026 budget

San Diego City Council passes budget SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Ahead of the 2026 budget that is slated to go into effect on July 1, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria announced he will be vetoing several line items in the 2026 fiscal year budget passed by City Council earlier in June. Part of the line items that are being nixed are recreational programming at lakes, except for at Lake Miramar and Lake Murray, and brush management enforcement, among fund…

Mayor exercises veto power to trim almost $5 million from budget passed by council

Funding for recreation centers was at issue in the 2025-26 city of San Diego budget talks. Here is the Carmel Valley Recreation Center. (File photo courtesy of the city of San Diego) Mayor Todd Gloria on Tuesday issued line-item vetoes of several items included in the 2025-26 budget approved by the City Council last week. Though he supported restoring hours at recreation centers, libraries and two reservoirs, in a statement, Gloria’s office said…

‘Shaky assumptions’: Gloria vetoes millions in spending from council-approved budget

San Diego’s most turbulent budget season in at least a decade took another turn Tuesday when Mayor Todd Gloria vetoed some last-minute cuts and expenditures the City Council added to the budget a week ago. Employing a controversial and rarely used tool known as a line-item veto, Gloria rejected millions in council cuts — including $1.4 million in middle-management layoffs — and canceled nearly $5 million in new council spending. The nine-member …

Mayor Gloria line-item vetoes some city council-restored services, positions

The San Diego City Council voted 7-2 on June 10 to approve a $6 billion budget that sustained cuts to library hours on Sundays while not filling certain executive positions.

Mayor Gloria vetoes portions of City Council budget, keeps library and rec center hours

The mayor used his line-item veto power to trim the council's spending plan by roughly $5 million. He accepted the council's more modest cuts to library hours.