Sacramento air board adopts FY2025–26 budget, amends Title V rule and approves transportation MOU

The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District Board of Directors on July 22 approved the district’s fiscal year 2025–26 budget and fee schedule, adopted amendments to District Rule 207 (the Title V federal operating permit program), and approved a memorandum of understanding with the Sacramento Transportation Authority on State Transportation Improvement Program subregional allocations.

The actions were taken during a hybrid public meeting at which the board also received the district’s statutorily required annual report on vacancies and recruitment under Assembly Bill 2561 and heard the Air Pollution Control Officer’s report on telework policy, an ozone-attainment celebration and other programs.

The board adopted the FY 2025–26 budget and a fee schedule that will take effect July 1, 2025. Staff presented proposed revenues of about $62.3 million and proposed expenditures of about $66.0 million, reflecting a planned use of fund balance of roughly $3.7 million and a projected combined ending fund balance of about $113.8 million. The district’s general fund was shown with approximately $26 million in revenues and about $29 million in proposed expenditures, a planned use of fund balance of about $2.8 million, and a projected year-end fund balance near $24.5 million. The board approved a 3.84% adjustment to the district fee schedule, effective July 1, 2025.

Mark Cooley, an air quality engineer in the district’s monitoring, planning and…