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SAFCA board adopts $134.1 million FY 2025–26 budget; drops two eminent‑domain items and honors retiring executive
Summary
The Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency board on May 15 adopted a $134.1 million budget for fiscal year 2025–26, approved the consent calendar, removed two resolutions of necessity from the agenda, introduced a new director of engineering and adopted a retirement resolution for Executive Director Richard M. Johnson.
The Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency board of directors adopted the agency's recommended fiscal year 2025–26 budget at its May 15 meeting and approved several routine agenda items, removed two resolution-of-necessity items from the agenda and adopted a resolution honoring outgoing Executive Director Richard M. Johnson.
Jason Campbell, SAFCA deputy executive director, presented the final budget for the coming fiscal year and said the combined budget across SAFCA funds totals approximately $134.1 million. Campbell told the board that the recommended sources included roughly $30 million of fund balance and reserve releases and that approximately $112.8 million—about 84% of the appropriation—was earmarked for project work and acquisitions. He said salaries and benefits are budgeted at about $4.2 million; services and supplies at about $13.9 million; and contingencies at about $5.4 million. Campbell described major project spending for Natomas and for common features work and said utility relocations and timing shifts account for part of the funding movements into 2025–26.
The board opened and closed the public hearing on the budget, received no public testimony on that item, and then adopted Resolution No. 2025051, the recommended FY 2025–26 budget. The motion and second were recorded; the board approved the resolution by voice vote. The meeting record does not show a roll‑call tally in the public portion of the transcript.
The board moved the consent calendar (agenda items 3 through 16) and approved it by voice vote. Two separate public‑hearing items—Resolution of Necessity No. 2025073 (APN 226-0010-000-2, 5625 East Levee Road) and Resolution of Necessity No. 2025074 (APN 226-0010-000-3, 5311 East Levee Road)—were removed from the agenda at staff request; the board voted to drop each item after no public comment was received.
At the meeting SAFCA also introduced Jose Gomez as the agency's new director of engineering; Gomez was identified as replacing Pete Yelphy and joining SAFCA after recent work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Elk Grove. The board adopted Resolution No. 2025075 recognizing Richard M. Johnson for his service; Johnson, SAFCA's executive director, gave a retirement statement and several board members spoke in tribute.
No additional formal actions or budget amendments were taken at the May 15 meeting. The board recessed for closed session and later returned with counsel reporting no reportable action.
