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Palm Desert presents balanced $109M budget; Measure G revenue to fund public safety and major capital projects
Summary
City staff proposed a balanced FY 2025–26 budget with an estimated $312,000 surplus and roughly $109 million in total expenditures, driven largely by new Measure G sales-tax revenue earmarked for Fire Station 102, the library, NorthSphere park and other projects.
Veronica Chavez, director of finance, told the City Council that staff is proposing a balanced Fiscal Year 2025–26 budget with a modest surplus and an estimated $109 million in revenues and expenditures. "Most notable in the budget is the revenue from the passage of measure g," Chavez said, linking a year-over-year revenue jump to that new district 1% sales tax.
Staff identified sales tax (including Measure G), transient occupancy tax and property…
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