Overview
Placer County's FY 2025-26 adopted budget, as totaled in the governmental-funds detail schedules, shows expenditures and other financing uses of $1,320,726,035 against revenues and other financing sources of $1,284,577,387 — a gap of $36,148,648 covered from fund balance. The General Fund accounts for $456,335,526 of expenditures against $454,379,828 of revenues, a gap of $1,955,698. The budget was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on June 24, 2025.
Source: Placer County FY 2025-26 Budget page (adoption record and schedule files), Detail of Revenue and Detail of Expenditures schedules.
At a glance — FY 2025-26 adopted (governmental funds)
Source: Placer County FY 2025-26 Budget page, Detail of Revenue and Detail of Expenditures schedules.
General Fund — FY 2025-26 adopted
| General Fund revenues by category | FY 2025-26 adopted |
|---|---|
| Taxes | $326,661,377 |
| Licenses, Permits & Franchises | $11,740,761 |
| Fines, Forfeits & Penalties | $8,213,700 |
| Revenue from Use of Money & Property | $293,175 |
| Intergovernmental Revenue | $5,534,625 |
| Charges for Services | $48,363,519 |
| Miscellaneous Revenues | $332,426 |
| Donations | $18,000 |
| Non-Operating Revenue | $48,838,883 |
| Other Financing Sources | $4,383,362 |
| Total General Fund revenue & other financing sources | $454,379,828 |
The ten revenue categories sum exactly to $454,379,828. The largest tax lines inside Taxes: current secured property $182,490,808, property tax in-lieu of vehicle license fees $62,264,372, sales and use taxes $34,713,774, and hotel/motel tax $13,206,116.
| General Fund expenditures by category | FY 2025-26 adopted |
|---|---|
| Appropriation for Contingencies | $6,644,121 |
| Capital Asset Expenses | $0 |
| Cost Allocation | −$2,802,086 |
| Intra Fund Transfers | −$4,521,392 |
| Other Charges | $16,451,161 |
| Other Financing Uses | $252,585,441 |
| Salaries & Employee Benefits | $117,311,982 |
| Services and Supplies | $70,666,299 |
| Total General Fund expenditures & other financing uses | $456,335,526 |
The expenditure categories sum exactly to $456,335,526.
Source: Placer County FY 2025-26 Budget page, Detail of Revenue and Detail of Expenditures schedules, General Fund sections.
All governmental funds — FY 2025-26 adopted
| Fund group | Revenues & sources | Expenditures & uses |
|---|---|---|
| General Fund | $454,379,828 | $456,335,526 |
| Capital Projects Fund | $17,449,029 | $50,018,425 |
| Debt Service Fund | $7,294,918 | $7,363,901 |
| Special Revenue Funds | $805,453,612 | $807,008,183 |
| Total, all governmental funds | $1,284,577,387 | $1,320,726,035 |
Both columns sum exactly to their printed totals. Special Revenue Funds include the Road Fund ($132,002,359 in revenues) and the Regional Forest Health Fund ($4,446,181 in revenues). Disclosed again: county communications describe the adopted budget as $1.37 billion; the governmental-funds detail schedules total $1,320,726,035 in expenditures, and this page uses the schedule totals.
Source: Placer County FY 2025-26 Budget page, Detail of Revenue and Detail of Expenditures schedules, fund-group totals.
Sources & notes
- Only sources used: Placer County FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget book detail schedules (Detail of Revenue and Other Financing Sources by Fund and Account; Detail of Expenditures and Other Uses by Fund and Account), via the county's FY 2025-26 Budget page. County budget page.
- Sum checks: General Fund revenues sum exactly to $454,379,828; General Fund expenditures sum exactly to $456,335,526; fund-group revenues sum exactly to $1,284,577,387 and expenditures exactly to $1,320,726,035; gaps $1,955,698 (General Fund) and $36,148,648 (all governmental funds).
- Disclosed, not smoothed: (1) summary schedules extract garbled and were not used — detail schedules govern; (2) the $1.37 billion figure in county communications is not reconciled to the $1,320,726,035 schedule total in the retrieved schedules; (3) no position total is claimed.
- Fiscal-year label: FY 2025-26 (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026); adopted June 24, 2025.
- Jurisdiction palette: no verified Placer County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a county color.