Fiscal Year 2027 Budget

Budget Webinar

The Finance Department will host a Budget Webinar on 5/19/26 to share information about the proposed fiscal year 2027 Annual Budget and to guide participants on possible ways to use our interactive budget tool. View the webinar.

Register for the City of Santa Cruz Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Webinar

Proposed Budget

FY 2027 Proposed Budget Document (one PDF file)(PDF, 29MB)

Introduction

• Title page - City Council(PDF, 3MB)
• GFOA Distinguished Budget Award(PDF, 136KB)
• City of Santa Cruz Organization Chart(PDF, 238KB)
• Administrative Staff and Board, Commission and Committee Chairpersons(PDF, 78KB)
• Guide to the Document(PDF, 84KB)

City Overview

• City Overview(PDF, 1013KB)

Budget Discussion

• City Manager's Budget Message(PDF, 182KB)
• General Fund Financial Outlook(PDF, 187KB)
• Long-Range Operating Financial Plans for Major City Funds(PDF, 282KB)
• Primary General Fund Budget and General Revenues(PDF, 146KB)
• Citywide Guiding Framework(PDF, 1MB), including:
  • Citywide Strategic Plan
  • Climate Action Plan
  • Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
  • Health in All Policies
• Budget in Brief(PDF, 9MB)
• Repuesto en Resumen (en español)(PDF, 9MB)

Financial Summaries

• Fund Balance Projection(PDF, 282KB)
• Explanation of Change in Fund Balance(PDF, 234KB)
• Audited Net Position of Enterprise Funds(PDF, 187KB)
  • Differences Between ACFR and Budget Actuals(PDF, 932KB)
• Summary of Projected Revenues and Other Financing Sources(PDF, 46KB)
• Summary of Projected Expenditures and Other Financing Uses(PDF, 47KB)
• Revenues and Other Financing Sources – Primary General Fund(PDF, 27KB)
• Operating Expenditures by Department – Primary General Fund(PDF, 27KB)
• Summary of Transfers(PDF, 162KB)

Personnel

• Personnel Profile – Overview of Changes(PDF, 460KB)
• Personnel Authorization(PDF, 170KB)

Department Summaries

• Guide to the Department Summaries(PDF, 137KB)
• City Attorney(PDF, 893KB)
• City Council(PDF, 2MB)
• City Manager(PDF, 2MB)
• • Homelessness Response Team(PDF, 3MB)
  • Office of Economic Development(PDF, 1MB)
• Community Development(PDF, 2MB)
• Finance(PDF, 1MB)
• Fire(PDF, 1MB)
• Human Resources(PDF, 3MB)
• Information Technology(PDF, 2MB)
• Library(PDF, 2MB)
• Parks and Recreation(PDF, 2MB)
• Police(PDF, 2MB)
• Public Works - City/General Funds(PDF, 2MB)
• Public Works - Enterprise Funds(PDF, 1MB)
• Water(PDF, 2MB)

Capital Outlay

• Capital Outlay(PDF, 88KB)

Financial Policies

• Overview of Financial and Budgetary Policies(PDF, 839KB)

Capital Investment Program (CIP)

• Guide to the CIP(PDF, 582KB)
• Projects that Support the Climate Action Plan and Climate Adaption Plan(PDF, 86KB)
• General Fund CIP Priority Criteria(PDF, 322KB)
• Unfunded and Underfunded CIP List(PDF, 211KB)
• Reprogrammed CIP Budgets(PDF, 504KB)
• Project Maps of Existing Projects(PDF, 12MB)

Projects Summarized by Department/Fund and FY 2027 Fact Sheets

• Proposed Capital Investment Program Budget FY 2027-2031(PDF, 741KB)
  • Fire CIP(PDF, 60KB)
  • Information Technology CIP(PDF, 67KB)
  • Office of Economic Development CIP(PDF, 106KB)
  • Parks and Recreation CIP(PDF, 136KB)
  • Police CIP(PDF, 46KB)
  • Public Works CIP(PDF, 329KB)
  • Water CIP(PDF, 154KB)

Appendices

• Proposition 4 Appropriations Limit (Gann) Resolution(PDF, 641KB)
• Debt Service and Pension Obligations(PDF, 200KB)
• Legal Debt Limit(PDF, 48KB)
• Acronyms(PDF, 433KB)
• Glossary(PDF, 640KB)