Fiscal Year 2025 Budget

FY 2025 Adopted Budget Document (one PDF for printing)(PDF, 28MB)

Document by Section

Introduction

• Title page - City Council(PDF, 2MB)
• GFOA Distinguished Budget Award(PDF, 269KB)
• City of Santa Cruz Organization Chart(PDF, 198KB)
• Administrative Staff and Board, Commission and Committee Chairpersons(PDF, 87KB)
• Guide to the Document(PDF, 184KB)

City Overview

• City Overview(PDF, 1MB)

Budget Discussion

• City Manager’s Budget Message(PDF, 561KB)
• General Fund Financial Outlook
• Budget in Brief(PDF, 2MB)
• Primary General Fund Budget and General Revenues(PDF, 281KB)
• Climate Action Plan(PDF, 168KB)
• Health in All Policies(PDF, 164KB)

Financial Summaries

• Fund Balance Projection(PDF, 643KB)
• Assignment of General Fund Balance and Explanation of Fund Balance Change of 10%(PDF, 236KB)
• Audited Net Position of Enterprise Funds(PDF, 258KB)
• Differences Between ACFR and Budget Actuals(PDF, 392KB)
• Summary of Projected Revenues and Other Financing Sources(PDF, 75KB)
• Summary of Projected Expenditures and Other Financing Uses(PDF, 85KB)
• Revenues and Other Financing Sources – Primary General Fund(PDF, 63KB)
• Operating Expenditures by Department – Primary General Fund(PDF, 77KB)
• Summary of Transfers(PDF, 107KB)

Personnel

• Personnel Profile – Overview of Changes(PDF, 89KB)
• Personnel Authorization(PDF, 159KB)

Department Summaries

• Guide to the Department Summaries(PDF, 434KB)
• City Attorney(PDF, 6MB)
• City Council(PDF, 7MB)
• City Manager(PDF, 3MB)
• Economic Development and Housing(PDF, 4MB)
• Finance(PDF, 4MB)
• Fire(PDF, 2MB)
• Human Resources(PDF, 4MB)
• Information Technology(PDF, 3MB)
• Library(PDF, 6MB)
• Parks and Recreation(PDF, 5MB)
• Planning and Community Development(PDF, 3MB)
• Police(PDF, 5MB)
• Public Works(PDF, 4MB)
• Water(PDF, 3MB)

Capital Outlay

• Capital Outlay(PDF, 106KB)

Financial Policies

• Overview of Financial and Budgetary Policies(PDF, 458KB)

Capital Investment Program (CIP)

• Guide to the CIP(PDF, 390KB)
• Projects that Support the Climate Action Plan and Climate Adaption Plan(PDF, 324KB)
• General Fund CIP Priority Criteria(PDF, 61KB)
• Unfunded and Underfunded CIP List(PDF, 71KB)
• Project Maps of Existing Projects(PDF, 6MB)
• Projects Summarized by Department/Fund and FY 2025 Fact Sheets(PDF, 134MB)

Department CIPs

• City Manager CIP(PDF, 8MB)
• Citywide CIP(PDF, 1MB)
• Economic Development and Housing CIP(PDF, 6MB)
• Fire CIP(PDF, 359KB)
• Information Technology CIP(PDF, 12MB)
• Library - Measure S CIP(PDF, 248KB)
• Parks and Recreation CIP(PDF, 22MB)
• Public Works CIP(PDF, 2MB)
• Water CIP(PDF, 829KB)

Appendix

• Budget Adoption Resolution(PDF, 412KB)
• Proposition 4 Appropriations Limit (Gann) Resolution(PDF, 46KB)
• Debt Service and Pension Obligations(PDF, 455KB)
• Legal Debt Limit(PDF, 92KB)
• Acronyms(PDF, 60KB)
• Glossary(PDF, 325KB)