Extracted from Charlotte's own budget document — general fund gross expenditures. Every figure below adds up to the total the city printed in that document; nothing is estimated. A person still checks these numbers against the city's published pages before OpenGovs calls them verified data.
Off the map: Non-Departmental ($42.92M) — spending the document does not tie to a building.
- Police concentration
A single department holds 38.8% of the FY2026 budget. Concentration is not itself waste, but it deserves outcome-per-dollar scrutiny.
| # | Department | Amount | Share | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Police | $366.19M | 38.8% | +0.5% |
| 02 | Fire | $207.8M | 22% | +6.6% |
| 03 | Solid Waste Services | $91.21M | 9.7% | +5.6% |
| 04 | Innovation & Technology | $53.66M | 5.7% | +7.2% |
| 05 | Non-Departmental | $42.92M | 4.5% | +16.1% |
| 06 | Transportation | $37.61M | 4% | +2% |
| 07 | General Services | $34.37M | 3.6% | +27% |
| 08 | Housing and Neighborhood Services | $25.52M | 2.7% | -5.5% |
| 09 | Planning, Design, and Development | $17.02M | 1.8% | +3.9% |
| 10 | Finance | $12.11M | 1.3% | +0.4% |
| 11 | Human Resources | $8.64M | 0.9% | +5.9% |
| 12 | Contracting and Procurement | $8.57M | 0.9% | — |
| 13 | Economic Development | $7.56M | 0.8% | +2.2% |
| 14 | City Attorney | $6.75M | 0.7% | +6.3% |
| 15 | Special Initiatives | $4.4M | 0.5% | +96% |
| 16 | Communication and Marketing | $4.28M | 0.5% | -21.7% |
| 17 | City Manager | $3.54M | 0.4% | +2.7% |
| 18 | Strategy and Budget | $2.73M | 0.3% | -1.2% |
| 19 | Mayor and City Council | $2.7M | 0.3% | +144.3% |
| 20 | Community Relations | $2.55M | 0.3% | -6.5% |
| 21 | Internal Audit | $1.83M | 0.2% | +1.6% |
| 22 | City Clerk | $1.54M | 0.2% | +4.9% |
This city's budget book publishes department totals, not individual line items, so there is nothing finer to show. The figures in the league table are the document's own department rows and add up exactly to the total it prints. Cities that publish a machine-readable export — New York and Houston, for instance — get full line-item detail here.
- Fetched
Downloaded from the city's official website and fingerprinted with SHA-256
- Extracted
Read the FY2026 appropriation table out of the document
- Reconciled
Our department figures add up to $943.5M — the same total the city printed. Extraction is discarded if they disagree.
- Human reviewpending
Pending: a person checks these totals against the city's published pages before OpenGovs calls them verified
Verified Check
Charlotte can publish a live vendor register, itemized cards, and named payroll. While those files are current, the city carries a public Verified Check — the most transparent mark on the map. The badge comes off if a month is missed.
Open the monthly feed →Budget Simulator
We already hold Charlotte's adopted book. Upload proposed budgets A, B, and C, simulate vs estimated, then score the scenarios when actuals land so the next round is tighter.
Simulate A, B, C →- Open document →PDFcharlotte-budget-2026.pdf51.6 MB · fetched Sep 13, 2026sha-256 d9185699dd9eaa05f0745e0b3ce1caf223e2462f333c1eb6577a0a10eeaea08f
Retrieved directly from www.charlottenc.gov with the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded in the city's manifest.json
Verified provenance means we can prove where the file came from and that it has not been altered — it is not a claim that a person has checked the numbers yet.