This afternoon, Mayor Adrian Fenty officially released his revised fiscal year 2011 budget, which reverses a $188 million deficit through several cuts in government spending and services. The budget eliminates about 125 “vacant and redundant” government jobs, the result of an agency-by-agency review conducted by the Fenty administration.

The proposal does not include any tax increases for D.C. residents. The proposal includes a $27.4 million revenue bump from consolidation of several accounts — including $6 million from the baseball fund — into the city’s General fund. The proposal recommends several cuts which will certainly be hotly debated, including, but not limited to:

• A “nominal” reduction to late-night service on the Woodley Park-McPherson Square D.C. Circulator route, and an $1 increase at Metro parking fees in the District of Columbia.
• Several cuts for the District Department of Transportation, to the tune of about $6 million. The proposal recommends a reduction in funding for sidewalk replacement, road and alley repaving and many other initiatives.
• The elimination of the Office of Planning’s Historic Homeowner Grant program which encourages low-to-moderate income residents to renovate their homes.
• The D.C. Commission of Arts and Humanities would be forced to slice sub grant amounts and condense all grants into one deadline.
• The Summer Youth Employment Program would be reduced to a six-week program for a maximum of 12,000 participants.
• A cut of $300,000 in funding for Healthy Grocery Initiatives through the Department of Small and Local Business Development.
• A delay of within-grade pay increases at the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department.