Solano County adopts $1.65 billion recommended budget, draws reserves to balance

The Solano County Board of Supervisors on a 5-0 vote adopted the county's fiscal year 2025'26 recommended budget, a package the county said totals about $1.65 billion in governmental funds and relies on one-time draws from reserves to balance near-term capital needs.

County budget staff emphasized that while steady property-tax growth helped stabilize revenue, rising costs for pension and health insurance, increased services-and-supplies expenses and a decline in certain sales-tax streams required using reserves. Emily (county budget staff) told the board, "This budget does rely on draws from reserves to cover some of our most pressing capital needs," and said the recommended draw from the capital renewal reserve is $7.8 million, which would reduce that reserve to about $13 million if approved.

The board packet shows the general fund portion of the recommended budget at about $417 million. Special-revenue funds total roughly $1.17 billion; health-and-social-services and public-safety programs together…