Overview
Oakland's FY 2025-27 biennial adopted budget appropriates $2,174,007,592 across all funds in FY 2025-26 (year 1): General Purpose Fund $791,285,083 plus restricted/special funds $1,382,722,509. Year 2 (FY 2026-27) as adopted totals $2,198,452,703, with a General Purpose Fund of $856,986,849. The midcycle proposed FY 2026-27 figures (General Purpose Fund $812,858,494; all funds $2,274,098,881) are proposals, not adopted figures, and are not used as adopted totals here.
Source: City of Oakland June 1, 2026 midcycle agenda report, Table 1 (restating biennial adopted columns); City of Oakland FY 2025-2027 Budget page (adoption record).
At a glance — biennial adopted
Source: City of Oakland June 1, 2026 midcycle agenda report, Table 1.
All funds — expenditures by category, FY 2025-26 adopted
The FY 2025-26 biennial column of the midcycle interactive-budget "All Funds Expenditures" table matches the adopted all-funds total exactly, and its categories sum exactly to that total.
| Category | FY 2025-26 biennial adopted |
|---|---|
| Personnel & Overhead | $1,122,193,188 |
| Operations & Maintenance | $517,121,448 |
| Internal Services | $138,026,114 |
| Capital | $113,810,832 |
| Debt & Other | $122,808,916 |
| Transfers | $160,047,094 |
| Total, all funds | $2,174,007,592 |
Source: City of Oakland June 1, 2026 midcycle agenda report, All Funds Expenditures table (FY 2025-26 biennial column).
Fiscal policy notes — from the adopted budget
The adopted budget's Consolidated Fiscal Policy compliance section records the following departures and figures:
- The adopted budget uses one-time revenues for ongoing purposes, a departure from the Consolidated Fiscal Policy, with CFP Part D Section 2 temporarily suspended.
- The Vital Services Stabilization Fund policy is temporarily suspended, with no additional contributions.
- No appropriations from the General Purpose Fund Emergency Reserve.
- The Parks Measure Q maintenance-of-effort requirement is not met (suspended by resolution for extreme fiscal necessity).
- The Measure NN minimum sworn-staffing requirement is not met (severe/unanticipated fiscal event declaration).
- Kids First Fund: FY 2025-26 $22,744,353; FY 2026-27 $23,576,450.
- Vacant Property Tax Act (Fund 2270) administrative-cost caps: no more than $1,116,000 in FY 2025-26 (adopted allocates $965,465) and $1,147,248 in FY 2026-27 (adopted $1,049,101); blight/code-enforcement minimum $1,860,000 in FY 2025-26 (adopted $5,347,937) and $1,912,080 in FY 2026-27 (adopted $5,289,016).
Source: City of Oakland adopted budget publication (OpenGov), Compliance with the Consolidated Fiscal Policy section.
Sources & notes
- Sources used: (1) City of Oakland June 1, 2026 midcycle agenda report, Table 1 (biennial adopted columns); (2) City of Oakland FY 2025-2027 Budget page (adoption record); (3) City of Oakland adopted budget publication on OpenGov (fiscal-policy compliance section). City budget page.
- Sum checks: $791,285,083 + $1,382,722,509 = $2,174,007,592; $856,986,849 + $1,341,465,854 = $2,198,452,703; the six expenditure categories sum exactly to $2,174,007,592.
- Disclosed, not smoothed: (1) proposed figures (FY 2025-26 all funds $2,161,760,713; FY 2026-27 all funds $2,195,638,543) are not used — Council amendments changed them; (2) General Purpose Fund revenues for FY 2025-26 not extracted as a separate adopted figure; (3) positions omitted (FTE rows garbled in extraction); (4) no outstanding-debt total claimed.
- Fiscal-year label: FY 2025-27 biennial (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2027); adopted June 11, 2025 (Council passed the Mayor's Proposed Budget of May 5, 2025, as amended).
- Jurisdiction palette: no verified City of Oakland palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a city color.