Mayor Jenny Durkan delivered her first budget address today at Fire Station 10. While the mayor had broadcast her desire to trim department budgets by 2% to 5%, ultimately her budget proposal increased the City’s budget to $5.9 billion, with police and transportation spending leading the way.

The budget includes $1.32 billion in general-funding spending, which is a $60 million jump from this year’s budgeted $1.26 billion in general-funding spending on a $5.6 billion total. A big chunk of the remainder is devoted to city-owned utilities like Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities. Mayor Durkan said the budget does reflect $50 million in cuts she found, such as eliminating 150 open positions and tightening up discretionary spending on travel and consultants.

Public safety spending would jump 10% to $695 million, allowing the City to recruit 120 firefighters, hire 40 new police officers, and give police officers a raise–their first since 2014. The budget would also fund the Community Service Officer program, which replaces armed officers with plainclothes ones who focus on community needs.

Meanwhile, spending on housing and homelessness would get a modest $2.8 million increase to $89.5 million. The housing fact sheet also promised “[l]ater this year, Mayor Durkan will announce more than $70 million for affordable housing development.” That’s down from $100 million the Seattle Office of Housing brought in this year, buoyed by $29 million in bonding and a strong year for incentive zoning.

Transportation spending would increase $130 million to $609 million next biennium under Mayor Durkan’s plan, although some of that money is Move Seattle levy dollars leftover from earlier years.

The transportation funding surge includes a 63% increase in adaptive signals or Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) which urbanists have criticized for kicking pedestrians to the curb and extending wait times and frustrating people walking, biking, or taking transit.

On the other hand, both Vision Zero and transit corridor improvements appear conspicuously left out of the mayor’s budget bump. Vision Zero and “Safe Routes” gets $26.7 million in the Mayor’s 2019 budget, down from $28.4 million in 2018. And transit corridor improvement funding–which dovetails with Vision Zero in an ideal world–is also down, at $29.7 million proposed next year compared to $42.7 million this year.

The Mayor’s Office listed the follow investments on its transportation budget factsheet (emphasis and links mine).