How Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s budget affects you [Pictures]

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

During negotiations with union officials, the city hopes to cap leave at 45 days for new employees and workers who have not yet accumulated more than that. Some employees can receive as many as 192 days now.

Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun

City workers will receive a 2 percent pay raise.

Jeffrey F. Bill, Baltimore Sun

The city's 10,000-person workforce will shrink by 23 positions by eliminating long-term vacancies and consolidating Human Resources staff. This is part of the mayor's goal to reduce the city's workforce by 10 percent over 10 years.

Kenneth K. Lam, Baltimore Sun

The city will spend another $10 million toward the demolition of blighted and vacant properties and the relocation of families.

Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun

The proposed budget will keep all the library branches open, which budget officials say is intended to help the city's improve third-grade reading and support life-long learning.

Lloyd Fox, Baltimore Sun

Under the first full budget year, the city will continue a new pilot program to fight litter and rats by giving out 9,000 huge plastic trash cans on wheels that will be tracked for theft prevention. The rolling trash bins will go to residents in Belair-Edison and the greater Mondawmin area.

Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun

Police will receive tablets and software to file reports from the field, as part of $5 million in technology upgrades from seized drug contraband.

Brian Krista, Baltimore Sun Media Group

Roosevelt Park in Hampden will receive a skate park for $100,000 as part of an infusion of $3 million to the recreation and parks department. Latrobe Park will get a field house for $600,000 and the trail at Herring Run Park will receive $850,000 in upgrades. Additionally, community service center will be added at Druid Hill Park for $500,000.

Chiaki Kawajiri, Baltimore Sun

Property tax bills will be down to $2.13 per $100 of assessed value, which is a 6 percent reduction since 2012. The proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 adds a 2.5 cent reduction to the tax rate, or about 1.2 percent.

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Of $26 million in new capital investment, the city will pour another $4 million into street repairs.

Christopher T. Assaf, Baltimore Sun

Investments in Innovation Fund grants will help modernize the police department's crime lab with new digital cameras to replace film, among other upgrades.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

The city intends to make room for another 1,100 children to attend after-school programs by transitioning two day care centers to year-round Head Start centers.

Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun

Under the mayor's Better Schools initiative, the city will spend $38 million on school construction. This is part of a plan to spend $1 billion on school construction.

Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 is nearly $2.5 billion, a 3.5 percent increase over the current spending plan. The administration also wants to spend $897 million on capital improvements, of which 72 percent would go toward water and sewer upgrades. Overall, the budget aims to knock millions off the long-term structural deficit -- once projected to be $750 million over 10 years -- and make the city's property taxes more competitive by continuing to reduce the rate homeowners pay. "Time and time again what I have done during my time in office is tackle some persistent problems," Rawlings-Blake said in an interview Tuesday. "While I am very proud, we're not done. We've made significant reductions in the structural deficit, and there is a lot more to be done. I am going to continue to talk straight about what needs to be done." Read more about the budget.