Overview
Red Bluff’s adopted FY 2025-26 budget plans $26,325,502 in citywide revenues plus $2,718,308 in transfers in, against $42,385,638 in expenditures plus $2,718,308 in transfers out, drawing the combined estimated balance from $27,463,662 down to $11,403,526. The General Fund budgets $13,439,627 in general revenues; sales tax ($6,433,177, about 48% of general revenues) is its largest source, followed by property tax ($2,309,330). Police ($10,427,864 in gross department expenditures) and Fire ($5,122,393) dominate General Fund spending.
Source: City of Red Bluff 2025/2026 Budget.
At a glance — adopted budget FY 2025-26
Source: City of Red Bluff 2025/2026 Budget, citywide budget table and General Fund overview.
Citywide budget, FY 2025-26
The citywide walk is exact: beginning balance plus revenues plus transfers in equals total funds available, and available funds minus expenditures minus transfers out equals the ending balance.
| Estimated balance, June 30, 2025 | $27,463,662 |
| Revenues | $26,325,502 |
| Transfers in | $2,718,308 |
| Total funds available | $56,507,472 |
| Expenditures | −$42,385,638 |
| Transfers out | −$2,718,308 |
| Estimated balance, June 30, 2026 | $11,403,526 |
Special revenue funds subtotal, FY 2025-26 (also exact): beginning $6,031,112 + revenues $4,812,440 + transfers in $724,233 = $11,567,785 available; expenditures $4,918,792 + transfers out $326,657 = $5,245,449; ending $6,322,336.
Source: City of Red Bluff 2025/2026 Budget, citywide budget table.
General Fund, FY 2025-26
General revenues by source sum exactly to $13,439,627. The book’s General Fund overview presents the fund on a net-cost basis: general revenues $13,439,627 minus net functional costs $18,343,808 equals a change in fund balance of −$4,904,181, taking the beginning balance of $6,108,727 to a printed ending balance of $1,204,545 (the arithmetic gives $1,204,546, a $1 difference disclosed in the basis note).
| Sales tax | $6,433,177 |
| Property tax — general | $2,309,330 |
| Motor vehicle licenses | $1,866,000 |
| Motel tax | $1,400,000 |
| Franchise tax | $520,000 |
| Business licenses | $450,000 |
| Public benefit fee — cannabis | $300,000 |
| Interest income | $90,000 |
| Property transfer tax | $45,900 |
| Miscellaneous income & refunds | $25,000 |
| Bingo licenses | $20 |
| Pawn dealer licenses | $200 |
| Total general revenues | $13,439,627 |
Net cost of General Fund functions (general revenues minus program revenues, as presented in the overview) sums exactly to $18,343,808.
| General government | $2,400,077 |
| Public protection — Fire | $4,837,370 |
| Public protection — Police | $9,891,821 |
| Parks & recreation | $909,088 |
| Community Center (transfer out) | $305,452 |
| Total functional costs | $18,343,808 |
Gross General Fund department expenditures sum exactly to $20,355,255; the difference from the $18,343,808 net-cost total is program revenues ($876,908: licenses and permits $19,209, fines and forfeitures $18,700, intergovernmental $556,160, charges for current services $89,500, miscellaneous revenue $193,339) and transfers, as presented across the book’s two General Fund summaries.
| General government departments | $3,884,450 |
| Fire Department | $5,122,393 |
| Police Department | $10,427,864 |
| Parks & recreation departments | $920,548 |
| Total General Fund expenditures | $20,355,255 |
Source: City of Red Bluff 2025/2026 Budget, General Fund overview and departmental summaries.
Elected officials
The budget document states the Red Bluff City Council is composed of five members elected to four-year terms, with the Council selecting a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem each December. Individual Council members are not named in the extracted sections of the budget book, so no names are listed here rather than supplied from another source.
Source: City of Red Bluff 2025/2026 Budget, General Fund overview.
Sources & notes
- Only source used: City of Red Bluff, 2025/2026 Budget (cityofredbluff.org; adoption 06/17/2025 as printed on the cover). 2025/2026 Budget.
- Sum checks: citywide walk exact ($56,507,472 available; $11,403,526 ending); special revenue subtotal exact; General Fund general-revenue lines exact ($13,439,627); net functional costs exact ($18,343,808); program revenues exact ($876,908); gross department expenditures exact ($20,355,255).
- What is not claimed: the $1 General Fund rounding differences described in the basis note; no outstanding-debt total (not extracted from the book); no Council member names (not named in the extracted sections); the Downtown Business Improvement line shows no FY 2025-26 figure in the extracted revenue table and is omitted from the sum-checked lines.
- Jurisdiction palette: no verified Red Bluff palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a city color.