# 2027 City Council Budget Meeting


**Body:** City of Shreveport
**Date:** November 12, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Construction & Infrastructure, Public Safety, Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding


The City of Shreveport’s 2027 City Council budget meeting on November 13, 2026, reviewed proposed departmental budgets and capital needs; no budget or procurement votes were recorded. Major facilities and infrastructure items included the Convention Center’s $13 million five-year capital needs list, with a proposed $350,000 interior painting project, a boiler replacement, and a chiller quoted at $680,000; the city’s $2 million Riverfront Fund contribution to the Convention Center was proposed to continue. The hotel reported a $2.5 million elevator replacement underway, an estimated $150,000 phone-system replacement for which bids were being sought, and an $85,000 fire-panel upgrade. IT identified $825,000 in server replacements and additional switch replacements as unfunded needs. The airport reported more than $30 million in FAA and state grants for a new air traffic control tower, with no local match, and said a new parking-lot management company had been selected.

Council members discussed potential additions or changes for the budget, including a police staffing study, a possible drone-as-first-responder program (estimated at about $1 million annually, with costs and staffing still being developed), two additional police trucks, and pricing for City Court garage doors and Property Standards vehicles. Property Standards said its demolition and care-premises funding was just under $4 million and discussed roughly $500,000 in truck needs. Public Works raised a possible future garbage-fee increase to address a General Fund subsidy of about $7.1 million; council members emphasized service quality and consideration for residents on fixed incomes, but no increase was approved. Finance reported an RFP underway for property-lien collections, while the City Attorney’s office said it had issued an RFP to renew its third-party administrator contract. The proposed budget also includes approximately $20 million for water and sewer capital work and anticipated bond-funded street and drainage projects; several specific project amounts remained contingent on bond sales and later budget amendments.

**Source:** City of Shreveport