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Salinas adopts $285M budget for FY25–26 with higher CIP spending and reserves; council flags public-safety staffing and reporting needs
Summary
The council unanimously adopted the FY2025–26 operating and capital budgets and appropriation limits on June 17. The approved plan keeps departments largely level-funded while increasing capital investment — notably streets and sidewalks — and sets reserves at about 20.7% of the general-fund operating budget.
The Salinas City Council voted unanimously June 17 to adopt the fiscal-year 2025–26 operating and capital budgets and the city’s appropriation limits. Finance staff described the proposal as largely status quo on operations while significantly increasing the capital-improvement program (CIP) investment.
Celine Andrews, finance director, summarized the proposed citywide budget totaling about $285 million. The package includes a general-fund operating budget of approximately $184.5 million, enterprise and other funds, and a proposed CIP of roughly $29.4 million in new-year allocations plus significant carryover from prior years. Andrews and Assistant Finance Director Abe Pedrosa highlighted that salaries and benefits represent about…
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