Overview
Anniston's adopted FY2027 General Fund budget spends more than it takes in, by design: adopted revenue of $50,106,308 against adopted expenditures of $51,810,575, a gap of $1,704,267 that the portal describes as $1.704M in planned use of accumulated fund balance, "primarily for one-time capital and strategic investments." The adopted budget includes no increase in the city's property-tax rate, and public safety remains the largest claim on the General Fund: Police ($10,211,235) plus Fire ($7,761,080) total $17,972,315, about $18.0M as the portal states. The city reports 336 full-time positions in FY2027.
Source: City of Anniston transparency portal, FY2027 Budget, Revenue & Spending Dashboard.
At a glance
Source: City of Anniston transparency portal, FY2027 Budget, Revenue & Spending Dashboard.
Revenue
Sales tax alone is $29,730,600 — 59.3% of adopted General Fund revenue. The eight largest lines below total $44,586,175; all remaining lines total $5,520,133; together they re-add exactly to the adopted total of $50,106,308.
| Revenue source | FY2027 adopted |
|---|---|
| Sales tax | $29,730,600 |
| Business license | $4,747,700 |
| Ad valorem taxes — tax collector | $4,369,000 |
| PARD revenues | $1,720,025 |
| Special 5-mill school tax — tax collector | $1,718,500 |
| Anniston Water Works / Sewer Board | $853,850 |
| Insurance licenses | $737,200 |
| Interest income | $709,300 |
| All other revenue lines | $5,520,133 |
| Total adopted General Fund revenue | $50,106,308 |
Disclosure — scope of the revenue total: this is General Fund revenue only. The portal's revenue table is the General Fund line-item list; transfers in from other funds that appear as lines in that list (for example, gas tax and the Alabama Trust Fund) are included in the $50,106,308 as published.
Source: City of Anniston transparency portal, FY2027 revenue source table.
Spending
The department table and the spending-by-type table on the portal both sum to the same detailed total, $51,810,575. That total is $575 above the portal's rounded headline of "$51.81M"; this page uses the detailed total and discloses the $575 rounding difference rather than forcing the headline. The fund-balance walk is exact on the detailed figures: $50,106,308 + $1,704,267 = $51,810,575.
| Department / function | FY2027 adopted |
|---|---|
| Police Department | $10,211,235 |
| Transfers Out | $8,255,366 |
| Fire Department | $7,761,080 |
| Non-Departmental | $7,187,800 |
| Parks & Recreation | $5,626,045 |
| Public Works | $5,276,900 |
| Outside Agencies | $2,889,820 |
| Finance | $972,045 |
| City Manager | $743,730 |
| Building Safety & Inspections | $661,920 |
| Municipal Court | $496,650 |
| Main Street | $485,250 |
| Human Resources | $362,405 |
| Planning & Economic Development | $289,099 |
| Public Relations | $209,940 |
| Airport | $198,990 |
| City Council | $182,300 |
| Total adopted General Fund expenditures | $51,810,575 |
By spending type, personnel and benefits dominate at $26,890,759 — just over half the General Fund — followed by transfers of $8,165,366 and operations/other of $7,367,125. The remaining types (outside agencies $2,889,820; contractual/professional $2,305,670; utilities/communications $1,904,050; supplies/materials $876,890; maintenance/fleet $861,200; capital/equipment $258,500; training/travel/dues $198,195; debt service $93,000) bring the type table to the same $51,810,575 total.
Disclosure — capital outlay scope: the portal's $6.13M FY2027 capital-outlay figure is labeled "Official Capital Outlay/CIP grand total across all funds." It is therefore NOT comparable to the General Fund's $258,500 capital/equipment line above, and it is not added to the General Fund total. Disclosure — proposal excluded: the FY2026 recommended $51.7M general-fund figure was a proposal only and appears nowhere on this page; only the adopted FY2027 figures are shown.
Source: City of Anniston transparency portal, FY2027 department allocation and spending-type tables.
Sources & notes
- Source used: City of Anniston transparency portal, FY2027 Budget, Revenue & Spending Dashboard Read the source document. The portal states the latest adopted City of Anniston budget is shown first; council adoption of the FY2027 budget on September 3, 2026 is corroborated in the record.
- Sum checks: revenue lines $44,586,175 + $5,520,133 = $50,106,308; department table sums to $51,810,575; spending-type table sums to the same $51,810,575; fund-balance walk $50,106,308 + $1,704,267 = $51,810,575; Police + Fire $10,211,235 + $7,761,080 = $17,972,315.
- Rounding disclosure: the portal's "$51.81M" headline is $575 below the detailed total of $51,810,575; the detailed total is used on this page and the gap is disclosed above.
- Identity: this is the City of Anniston, Alabama, seat of Calhoun County. It is not the Calhoun County Commission, and no county figures are included.
- Jurisdiction palette: no verified palette was on file for this jurisdiction — the official site's theme information could not be confirmed as a government-specific palette rather than a platform default — so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.
- Photo: none. No freely-licensed photo with a confirmed license name could be verified for Anniston, Alabama in this pass, so this page ships without a hero photo rather than with a substitute image.