Harrisburg City Council on Monday
The future of several of Harrisburg’s top administrative positions is unknown, as council has slashed salaries.
At a special meeting on Monday, City Council voted to override Mayor Wanda Williams’ vetoes on several of council’s 2026 budget amendments. Council’s vote reconfirmed its changes to the budget, which zeroed out salaries for several top officials.
Williams last week vetoed several amendments that council had previously made to the 2026 budget, which council passed earlier this month.
Most notably, council zeroed out salaries for the city’s interim business administrator, project director for business administration/LERTA and the police bureau’s director of community engagement and relations. Council also defunded the city’s portion of the salary for the interim director of building and housing development, which supplements the portion of the salary funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Council’s veto override means that their changes will be restored.
“The mayor is absolutely livid,” said Mischelle Moyer, the city’s communications director, following the meeting.
Each of the four overrides to the vetoes received votes of 5-2 in favor of the measure. For the funding changes to the housing director, business administrator and project director for business administration/LERTA, council members Crystal Davis and Ausha Green voted against overriding Williams’ veto. For the funding cut to the police bureau’s director of community engagement and relations, council members Davis and Shamaine Daniels voted no.
The future of the defunded positions is unknown. At a previous council meeting, City Solicitor Neil Grover said that he wasn’t sure where things would go from here.
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