Based on projections, the City is facing an approximate $8 million deficit for the next budget year. During the next few months, residents, council members and staff will meet to discuss options for balancing this budget.
Please use this site to review materials and actively participate in this collaborative process. 
The Community Budget Process portion of the Overall Budget Process for 2010/11 is now complete. The archive of materials can be found here
This website will now focus on the traditional Budgeting Process that runs until February, 2010
The Proposed FY 2010/11 City of Evanston budget was released on December 31, 2009. The budget that is proposed contains a deficit of $9,532,100. The budget document includes the City Manager’s proposed changes to eliminate the deficit (summary worksheet starting on Page 13 of the “Proposed FY 2010-11 Budget” below). However, the detail pages of the proposed budget do not include these changes.
New documents can be found on the Documents page