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San Ramon opens FY 2025–26 budget process; city projects reserve near policy target
Summary
Finance staff presented a kickoff for the FY 2025–26 budget on March 25, showing midyear FY25 projections (revenues $66.2M, expenditures $65.2M) and a projected June 30, 2025 fund balance close to the reserve target. Staff outlined a calendar for a high‑level review next month, a full budget and five‑year forecast in May, and adoption in June.
Jennifer Wakeman, finance division manager, presented the city's FY 2025–26 budget development kickoff to the council on March 25 and summarized the midyear FY25 projections and the timeline for the next three months.
Midyear snapshot and reserves Wakeman said the FY25 midyear general‑fund projections show revenues of about $66.2 million and expenditures of about $65.2 million, with net transfers out of roughly $3.1 million. Combined with the audited FY24 ending fund balance, staff estimates the June 30, 2025 general‑fund balance at roughly $25.1 million. The city's reserve policy target — 36 percent of combined general‑fund budgeted expenditures plus an assumed transfer to the Doherty Valley fund — calculates to about $24.8 million, leaving the projected balance approximately $300,000 above the target.
Budget process and schedule Wakeman outlined the development steps: departmental submissions of revenues, expenses and position requests; verification and synthesis of the data; and analysis of the capital improvement program. She said the council would receive a high‑level budget summary next month, a full proposed FY26 budget and five‑year forecast in May, and a proposed budget for adoption in June. Staff said Measure N (recently approved local sales tax) and its projected revenues will be shown discretely in the budget materials so the council and public can track how the additional revenues may be allocated.
Public comment and priorities During public comment Johannes Tillahan, who said he completed the city's Government 101 program and had been on a police ridealong, urged the council to make public safety a top budget priority. "We all believe in Chief Dunton's leadership. Now let's give him the resource he needs to protect all of us," Tillahan said.
Next steps Wakeman said staff will return with detailed budget documents and scheduled workshops; the council directed staff to plan public outreach and to present the Measure N revenue forecast and proposed uses during the upcoming budget review process.
Ending The council received the kickoff as an informational item; staff will proceed to the detailed review and return to the council with full proposed budget documents for public hearings and adoption in May–June.
