SpendingDepartmentsPublic Works – Street Services

What does StreetsLA, the Bureau of Street Services cost?

In FY2025-26, the most recent complete fiscal year, the City Controller's records show $176.0M spent from this budget, against a final budget of $199.2M (adopted at $168.8M). The adopted budget for FY2026-27 is $193.4M.

Budget and spending by year

What the City adopted for the department each fiscal year, the budget after changes made during the year, and what it spent. Fiscal years run July to June.

$193.4MAdopted budget, FY2026-27 (in progress) History
$176.0MSpent in FY2025-26 History
$199.2MFinal budget, FY2025-26
Public Works – Street Services: spent by fiscal year
Fiscal yearValue
FY2016-17$171.0M
FY2017-18$182.0M
FY2018-19$196.5M
FY2019-20$225.9M
FY2020-21$195.9M
FY2021-22$222.1M
FY2022-23$254.4M
FY2023-24$275.4M
FY2024-25$199.6M
FY2025-26$176.0M

Spent, complete fiscal years only.

Public Works – Street Services: adopted budget, final budget and spending by fiscal year
Fiscal yearAdoptedFinal budgetSpent
FY2026-27in progress$193.4M——
FY2025-26$168.8M$199.2M$176.0M
FY2024-25$208.0M$233.4M$199.6M
FY2023-24$229.4M$291.1M$275.4M
FY2022-23$230.1M$270.4M$254.4M
FY2021-22$205.2M$232.7M$222.1M
FY2020-21$167.6M$208.8M$195.9M
FY2019-20$208.9M$234.3M$225.9M
FY2018-19$168.6M$200.9M$196.5M
FY2017-18$165.5M$184.4M$182.0M
FY2016-17$181.6M$189.8M$171.0M
FY2015-16$172.6M$187.8M$155.6M
FY2014-15$164.9M$189.8M$158.4M
FY2013-14$171.0M$190.9M$158.5M
FY2012-13$166.8M$181.7M$159.6M
FY2011-12$146.0M$181.7M$161.1M

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“Adopted” is the budget as first adopted; “final budget” adds the changes and transfers made during the year, such as grants received; “spent” is actual expense recorded against that year's budget. All funds, as the Controller's budget data files them under this department. Most employee benefits, pension contributions and liability payouts are budgeted in citywide accounts outside any department (see non-departmental accounts), and some special-fund work for departments is budgeted there too, so they are not included. The year in progress shows only its adopted budget.

People and pay

Pay year 2025, the most recent complete calendar year in the Controller's payroll data, with 2024 for comparison.

995Full-time employees with active status, 2025
$127.3MTotal pay, 2025
$10.4MOvertime pay, 2025
Public Works – Street Services: employees and pay by pay year
Measure20242025
Full-time employees with active status1,008995
Everyone paid during the year1,1861,273
Total pay$129.3M$127.3M
Overtime pay$15.4M$10.4M
Pay per full-time employee$103,453$108,020

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“Full-time employees with active status” counts distinct people whose full-time job was active when the Controller extracted the data, the measure the payroll page uses. “Everyone paid” also counts part-time, seasonal and per-event workers and people who left during the year. Total and overtime pay cover everyone paid. “Pay per full-time employee” is those employees' total pay divided by their number. Pay excludes the City's pension and benefit contributions.

Payments to outside vendors

Payments the department made to outside vendors for goods and services, from the Controller's checkbook. Spelling variants of one firm are combined. FY2026-27 is a partial year, through Sep 9, 2026, and is compared with the same point of FY2025-26.

Controller checkbook · Updated Sep 22, 2026Latest payment in scope · dated Sep 9, 2026
$64.9MPaid to 145 outside payees in FY2025-26
$11.2MPaid in FY2026-27 through Sep 9, 2026; $12.4M by the same point of FY2025-26 (−9.6%)

Largest payees, FY2025-26

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Largest payees so far in FY2026-27

Public Works – Street Services: largest outside payees in FY2026-27 to date, with the same point of the year before
PayeeTo Sep 9Same point FY2025-26
Petrochem Materials Innovation, LLC$2.9M$1.8M
ALL American Asphalt Inc$2.1M$1.9M
USA Waste of California Inc$1.3M$1.6M
Herc Rentals Inc.$1.1M$886.5K
Robertsons Ready MIX$423.0K$643.7K
Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc$374.5K$0
Enterprise Rent-A-Car/leasing$367.7K$422.3K
Arakelian Enterprises Inc$319.7K$0
San Joaquin Refining Co Inc$225.2K$204.4K
United Site Services of CA in$222.8K$73.0K

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By fiscal year

Public Works – Street Services: payments to outside vendors by fiscal year
Fiscal yearPaidPayees
FY2025-26$64.9M145
FY2024-25$91.9M159
FY2023-24$107.6M250
FY2022-23$115.5M271
FY2021-22$103.1M251
FY2020-21$75.3M247
FY2019-20$101.9M287
FY2018-19$94.9M253
FY2017-18$90.7M257

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Outside vendors means payments for goods and services from the City's governmental funds, leaving out payroll, benefits, debt, taxes, transfers to other governments and employee benefit insurers (the same scope as the checkbook page). Complete fiscal years only in the yearly table. Names link to a payee's page where one exists; people paid only lawsuit or claim settlements have no page. Every payment is in the payment register.

Lawsuit and liability payouts

Settlements and judgments the checkbook charges to the public works, street services liability payouts account. They are paid from the City's citywide Liability Claims budget, not from the department's own budget above.

Controller checkbook · Updated Sep 22, 2026Latest liability payment · dated Sep 9, 2026
$49.7MPaid in FY2025-26
$13.6MPaid in FY2026-27 through Sep 9, 2026; $4.9M by the same point of FY2025-26
Public Works – Street Services: liability payouts by fiscal year
Fiscal yearPaid
FY2026-27to Sep 9, 2026$13.6M
FY2025-26to Sep 9, 2025 (same point)$4.9M
FY2025-26$49.7M
FY2024-25$43.7M
FY2023-24$25.3M
FY2022-23$16.6M
FY2021-22$8.7M
FY2020-21$7.5M
FY2019-20$17.0M
FY2018-19$18.0M
FY2017-18$16.9M

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Totals only. Payments are net of cancelled checks and can change as late entries post. Individual payments are not listed here: the payees are often the people who brought the claims. Every payout account is on the obligations page.

311 requests assigned to the department

Requests in MyLA311, the City's 311 system, assigned to StreetsLA, the Bureau of Street Services or one of its units, so far in 2026 (through Oct 2), excluding information-only calls.

127,043Requests in 2026 through Oct 2
82,472From Mar 28 through Oct 2, 2026, against 78,959 in the same stretch of 2025 (+4.4%)
Public Works – Street Services: most common 311 request types, 2026 to date
Request type2026 to date
Street Pavement Issues34,606
Landscape Maintenance18,292
Obstructions14,653
Tree Emergency9,851
Street Sweeping7,383
Street Tree Inspection6,630

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The comparison starts on Mar 28 because MyLA311 began recording requests on Mar 28, 2025. Earlier requests are in the City's previous 311 system, which records the assigned department differently, so the comparison uses only the stretch both years have in MyLA311. Both years are cut at the same moment.

See all request types and council districts on the 311 page.

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