Overview
Lake County's adopted FY 2025–2026 budget appropriates $410,039,749 across all funds. Services and Supplies ($146,370,723) and Salaries and Benefits ($128,552,391) are the largest appropriation objects, and Construction in Progress ($70,729,792) reflects a heavy capital program. Within governmental funds, Public Protection ($72,587,010) and Public Assistance ($72,392,222) are the largest functions, and the General Fund totals $105,312,026 in the Schedule 7 by-fund summary.
Source: Lake County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget (county DocumentCenter).
At a glance — adopted budget FY 2025–2026
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Source: Lake County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget, resolution and Schedule 7.
Appropriations by object — resolution summary, all funds
Object lines sum exactly to $410,039,749.
| Salaries and Benefits | $128,552,391 |
| Services and Supplies | $146,370,723 |
| Other Charges | $49,555,174 |
| Construction in Progress | $70,729,792 |
| Fixed Assets | $18,657,816 |
| Other Financing Uses | −$9,473,007 |
| Contingencies | $5,646,860 |
| Total appropriations | $410,039,749 |
Source: Lake County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget, adoption resolution.
Financing uses by function — Schedule 7, governmental funds, adopted
Function lines sum to the function total; adding contingencies and obligated-fund-balance provisions gives Schedule 7's governmental total (exact).
| General | $65,731,686 |
| Public Protection | $72,587,010 |
| Public Ways & Facilities | $42,495,565 |
| Health & Sanitation | $59,192,928 |
| Public Assistance | $72,392,222 |
| Education | $3,736,468 |
| Recreational and Cultural Services | $7,293,512 |
| Special Districts – BOS | $1,284,230 |
| Total financing uses by function | $324,713,621 |
| Appropriations for Contingencies | $5,550,860 |
| Subtotal financing uses | $330,264,481 |
| Provisions for Obligated Fund Balances | $13,669,130 |
| Total financing uses, governmental funds | $343,933,611 |
Scope note: this $343,933,611 Schedule 7 total covers governmental funds only. The resolution's $410,039,749 covers all funds; the $66,106,138 gap is other funds outside Schedule 7.
Source: Lake County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget, Schedule 7.
General Fund
General Fund financing uses in the Schedule 7 by-fund summary (adopted column): $105,312,026.
Source: Lake County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget, Schedule 7 by-fund summary.
Elected officials
As named in the adopted budget document. No contact details are shown because none are given in the cited document.
| Board of Supervisors, District 1 | Helen Owen |
| Board of Supervisors, District 2 | Bruno Sabatier |
| Board of Supervisors, District 3 (Chair) | Eddie “EJ” Crandell |
| Board of Supervisors, District 4 | Brad Rasmussen |
| Board of Supervisors, District 5 | Jessica Pyska |
| Assessor-Recorder | Richard Ford |
| District Attorney | Susan Krones |
| Sheriff-Coroner | Lucas Bingham |
| Treasurer-Tax Collector | Patrick Sullivan |
| Auditor-Controller / County Clerk | Jenavive Herrington |
| County Administrative Officer | Susan Parker |
Source: Lake County FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget, elected officials page.
Board meetings
The Board of Supervisors usually meets on the first, second, third, and fourth Tuesday of each month, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the Board Chambers on the first floor of the Courthouse, 255 North Forbes Street, Lakeport.
Lake County Board of Supervisors
Regular-pattern dates — check the official calendar for changes.
Livability — Lake County
Lake County scores 26.1 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #57 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 704.1 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 4.4, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.
| Component | Value | Score (0–100) |
|---|---|---|
| Housing affordability (median home value ÷ median household income) | 5.35 | 71.6 |
| Median household income | $60,621 | 7.8 |
| Mean commute time | 32.4 minutes | 17.2 |
| Violent crime (reported crimes per 100,000 residents) | 704.1 | 4.4 |
| High school graduation rate | 84.1% | 17.0 |
| Uninsured rate | 7.5% | 38.8 |
| Unemployment rate | Not retrievable (see note) | — |
Method: percentile rank (count below + 0.5 × count equal) ÷ N × 100, lower-better measures inverted; composite is the mean of available component scores, rounded to 1 decimal; a county needs at least 5 of 7 components or it is unranked, never estimated. Vintages: ACS 2024 5-year (2020–2024) for housing affordability, income, and commute; FBI Crime Data Explorer 2024 for violent crime; County Health Rankings 2025 release for graduation and uninsured. Unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024) is missing for every California county because the BLS public API was unreachable (HTTP 503) on 2026-10-25; composites rest on the other components and will be recomputed if BLS data becomes available.
Housing prices — Lake County
County-level figures for Lake County.
| Median home value | $324,300 |
| Median gross rent | $1,368 per month |
Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).
Public schools — Lake County
Schools physically located in Lake County.
41 public schools in 10 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).
| School | Level | District | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Heron | Secondary (06-11) | Konocti Unified | Clearlake |
| Burns Valley | Elementary (KG-07) | Konocti Unified | Clearlake |
| California Online Public Schools North Bay | Other (KG-12) | California Online Public Schools North Bay District | Middletown |
| Carle (William C.) High (Continuation) | High (09-12) | Konocti Unified | Lower Lake |
| Clear Lake High | High (09-12) | Lakeport Unified | Lakeport |
| Clearlake Creativity | Other (KG-12) | Lake County Office of Education | Clearlake |
| Clover Valley High (Continuation) | High (09-12) | Upper Lake Unified | Upper Lake |
| Cobb Mountain Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Middletown Unified | Cobb |
| Coyote Valley Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Middletown Unified | Hidden Valley Lake |
| East Lake | Elementary (KG-07) | Konocti Unified | Clearlake Oaks |
| Ed Donaldson Education Center | High (09-12) | Kelseyville Unified | Kelseyville |
| Highlands Academy | Middle (02-08) | Konocti Unified | Lower Lake |
| Kelseyville Community Day | High (06-12) | Kelseyville Unified | Kelseyville |
| Kelseyville Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Kelseyville Unified | Kelseyville |
| Kelseyville High | High (09-12) | Kelseyville Unified | Kelseyville |
| Kelseyville Learning Academy | Other (KG-12) | Kelseyville Unified | Kelseyville |
| Konocti Preschool | Not Reported | Konocti Unified | Lower Lake |
| Lake County International Charter | Elementary (KG-08) | Lake County International Charter District | Middletown |
| Lakeport Alternative (Home School) | Other (KG-12) | Lakeport Unified | Lakeport |
| Lakeport Community Day | Middle (06-10) | Lakeport Unified | Lakeport |
| Lakeport Elementary | Elementary (KG-04) | Lakeport Unified | Lakeport |
| Lloyd Hance Community | High (07-12) | Lake County Office of Education | Lakeport |
| Loconoma Valley High | High (10-12) | Middletown Unified | Middletown |
| Lower Lake Elementary | Elementary (KG-07) | Konocti Unified | Lower Lake |
| Lower Lake High | High (09-12) | Konocti Unified | Lower Lake |
| Lucerne Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Lucerne Elementary | Lucerne |
| Middletown High | High (09-12) | Middletown Unified | Middletown |
| Middletown Middle | Middle (06-08) | Middletown Unified | Middletown |
| Minnie Cannon Elementary | Elementary (KG-06) | Middletown Unified | Middletown |
| Mountain Vista Middle | Middle (06-08) | Kelseyville Unified | Kelseyville |
| Natural High (Continuation) | High (09-12) | Lakeport Unified | Lakeport |
| Obsidian Middle | Middle (06-08) | Konocti Unified | Clearlake |
| Pomo | Elementary (KG-07) | Konocti Unified | Clearlake |
| Richard H. Lewis Alternative | Other (KG-12) | Konocti Unified | Clearlake |
| Riviera Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Kelseyville Unified | Kelseyville |
| Shade Canyon | Elementary (KG-08) | Shade Canyon District | Kelseyville |
| Terrace Middle | Middle (05-08) | Lakeport Unified | Lakeport |
| Upper Lake Community Day | High (09-12) | Upper Lake Unified | Upper Lake |
| Upper Lake Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Upper Lake Unified | Upper Lake |
| Upper Lake High | High (09-12) | Upper Lake Unified | Upper Lake |
| Upper Lake Middle | Middle (06-08) | Upper Lake Unified | Upper Lake |
School performance (proficiency): district-level proficiency values are published in the federal Ed Data Express tool and are retrievable by CSV export, but they have not yet been added to this page — the export requires a live-browser download (direct requests to the tool are blocked), so no proficiency figures are shown rather than substituted ones. Source for the list: NCES EDGE Public School Locations — Current, 2024–25.
Neighbor comparison
How Lake County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.
| Government | Per-capita GF spending | Fund balance % |
|---|---|---|
| Lake County (this dashboard) | $1,545.25 | — |
| Colusa County | $1,892.79 | — |
| Glenn County | $5,027.78 | — |
| Mendocino County | $2,750.32 | — |
| Napa County | $2,508.97 | — |
| Sonoma County | $1,564.61 | — |
| Yolo County | $529.24 | 95.11% |
GF figure: General Fund financing uses (Schedule 7 by-fund summary), FY 2025-26 adopted.
Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($13,669,130 is governmental provisions for obligated balances, not GF ending)
Colusa County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($6,929,481 is a drawdown of prior obligated balances)
Glenn County: Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance available -$5,246,414 is beginning (negative), not ending
Mendocino County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published
Napa County: Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance (estimated) $26,810,648 is beginning/available, not ending
Sonoma County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published (Fund Balance/Net Assets $374,255,241 is countywide, not GF)
Per-capita GF spending = the dashboard’s published General Fund total ÷ county population (ACS 2024 5-year, table B01003). Fund balance % = published GF ending balance ÷ GF total for the same fiscal year unless noted.
— in the fund-balance column means no GF ending balance is published on that dashboard (adopted budgets typically state only a January 1 balance).
Neighbor rows are county figures for the counties adjacent to the home county (U.S. Census Bureau County Adjacency File, 2024; out-of-state neighbors excluded).
Sources & notes
- Only source used: County of Lake, California, FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget (county DocumentCenter PDF). FY 2025–2026 Adopted Budget.
- Sum checks: resolution objects exact ($410,039,749); Schedule 7 functions exact ($324,713,621); subtotal exact ($324,713,621 + $5,550,860 = $330,264,481); governmental total exact ($330,264,481 + $13,669,130 = $343,933,611).
- What is not claimed: no reconciliation between the all-funds resolution total and the governmental-funds Schedule 7 total (difference $66,106,138, explained as other funds outside Schedule 7); no outstanding-debt figure from this budget book.
- Page accent: #162D50, the County of Lake’s official site theme color (lakecountyca.gov); the dark-theme accent (#87A9DE) is a lightened tint of the same color for contrast on the dark background.