Baltimore Mayor Scott Adds Infrastructure to Second-Term Plan
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott has released a second-term action plan that adds infrastructure modernization as a sixth governing pillar for city government. The change elevates the condition and improvement of Baltimore’s physical systems alongside public safety, economic development and responsible management of city resources.
The plan sets the administration’s stated priorities for its second term and is intended to guide work across city agencies. It continues several areas that were already part of the administration’s governing framework, while giving infrastructure a distinct place among the city’s top priorities.
Six priorities for city government
The six pillars identified in the plan are public safety; support for youth, older adults and vulnerable communities; clean, healthy and sustainable communities; economic development; responsible stewardship of city resources; and infrastructure modernization.
That structure puts physical improvements in the same governing framework as public safety and economic development. In practical terms, infrastructure can include the city systems and public assets that affect daily life, although the public announcement does not provide a project-by-project list under the new pillar.
The plan also keeps social supports and neighborhood conditions in view. Its priorities include services and assistance involving young people, older adults and vulnerable residents, as well as the goal of maintaining communities that are clean, healthy and sustainable.
Economic development remains a separate pillar, while fiscal stewardship reflects the administration’s responsibility to manage city resources. Together, the priorities describe a broad agenda covering public services, neighborhoods, economic activity and the government’s physical foundation.
Accountability and the budget context
City Administrator Faith Leach described the plan as an accountability framework for service delivery across city agencies. That description gives the document an operational purpose: It is meant to organize how departments pursue the administration’s priorities and assess their work during the second term.
The infrastructure focus comes as Baltimore is managing significant fiscal demands. The adopted fiscal 2026 budget addressed an $85 million shortfall and includes city spending for public safety, infrastructure and family-support programs.
The budget provides financial context for the new governing pillar, but the action plan itself is not a project award or a construction milestone. Naming infrastructure modernization as a priority does not establish that specific projects have been funded, started or completed.
For residents, the importance of the announcement will depend on how the administration turns the broad priority into agency work and specific improvements. Infrastructure decisions can shape the condition and reliability of public systems, while budget choices determine which efforts can move forward and when.
What comes next
The next visible steps are expected to come through city agency plans, budget decisions and individual infrastructure actions connected to the second-term framework. Those decisions will show how the administration defines modernization in practice and how it balances that work with public safety, social services, neighborhood conditions, economic development and fiscal responsibilities.
The action plan therefore marks a change in Baltimore’s stated governing structure rather than a final decision on a particular infrastructure project. It gives modernization a formal place among six citywide priorities and establishes the framework against which future agency work and spending choices can be measured.
Sources
- Mayor Scott releases his second term action plan, Baltimore Brew
- Summary of the Adopted FY2026 Budget, Baltimore City Bureau of the Budget and Management Research
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