Overview
Redding budgets biennially, and FY 2025-26 is the first year of the 2025–2027 biennial budget. All-funds revenues (before eliminating charges between funds) total $518,302,710, and net revenues after the $127,935,659 elimination are $390,367,051 by the book’s own table arithmetic. The General Fund budgets $110,413,310 in revenues against $110,550,445 in department expenditures, a computed gap of $137,135. The Electric Utility ($158,679,500 in revenues; $190,087,126 in expenditures) is by far the city’s largest enterprise operation, and total long-term debt at June 30, 2025 is $193,580,229, none of it subject to the city’s legal debt limit.
Source: City of Redding Biennial Budget 2025–2027, budget summaries.
At a glance — adopted budget FY 2025-26
All funds, FY 2025-26
Revenue by fund type sums exactly to the subtotal; the net figure follows after eliminating charges between funds.
| General Fund | $110,413,310 |
| Special revenue funds | $13,430,100 |
| Enterprise funds | $273,497,150 |
| Internal service funds | $120,962,150 |
| Subtotal — all revenues | $518,302,710 |
| Less: charges between funds | −$127,935,659 |
| Net total revenues (table arithmetic) | $390,367,051 |
Expenditures by fund type, as printed: General Fund $110,550,445; special revenue $11,639,760; enterprise $307,463,139; internal service $123,351,319. Those four printed totals sum to $553,004,663, which is $3,604,927 below the book’s printed all-funds expenditure total of $556,609,590; the book’s net expenditure total of $428,673,931 is the printed total less the same $127,935,659 charges-between-funds elimination, and is arithmetically consistent with the printed total.
General Fund, FY 2025-26
General Fund revenue lines sum exactly to $110,413,310, and department expenditure lines sum exactly to $110,550,445.
| Taxes | $74,186,800 |
| Licenses and permits | $2,695,400 |
| Fines, forfeits, and penalties | $806,220 |
| Revenue from internal departments | $20,909,730 |
| Revenues from other governmental agencies | $3,493,840 |
| Other revenues | $2,332,390 |
| Charges for current services | $5,164,260 |
| Revenue from the use of money & property | $824,670 |
| Total General Fund revenues | $110,413,310 |
Within taxes ($74,186,800): property taxes $30,560,000; nondedicated sales tax $31,368,000; transient occupancy tax $7,570,010; cable, utility, business license, property transfer, and cannabis taxes making up the balance.
| Police | $42,731,960 |
| Fire | $28,418,381 |
| Public Works — Transportation/Engineering | $13,150,310 |
| Community Services | $8,662,361 |
| Development Services | $6,501,403 |
| Non-Departmental | $4,328,620 |
| Financial Services | $3,137,932 |
| Personnel | $964,138 |
| City Attorney | $933,468 |
| City Clerk | $899,031 |
| City Manager | $614,420 |
| City Council | $208,421 |
| Total General Fund expenditures | $110,550,445 |
Computed General Fund balance for FY 2025-26: revenues $110,413,310 minus expenditures $110,550,445 = −$137,135. Separately, the book’s summary of fund transfers states the General Fund will receive $10,608,610 in FY 2025-26 from other funds (Gas Tax Street Improvement Fund $5,528,680; Local Transportation Fund $4,557,410; special revenue $272,520; Airport $250,000) and transfer out $2,945,820; those transfer figures are reported here as the book states them and are not added to the revenue/expenditure totals above.
Enterprise funds and debt
Enterprise revenues sum exactly to $273,497,150 and enterprise expenditures sum exactly to $307,463,139.
| Electric Utility — revenues | $158,679,500 |
| Electric Utility — expenditures | $190,087,126 |
| Wastewater Utility — revenues | $40,887,940 |
| Wastewater Utility — expenditures | $44,503,664 |
| Water Utility — revenues | $34,260,590 |
| Water Utility — expenditures | $34,910,305 |
| Solid Waste Utility — revenues | $31,308,480 |
| Solid Waste Utility — expenditures | $31,034,323 |
| Airports — revenues | $5,374,490 |
| Airports — expenditures | $3,599,850 |
| Storm Drain Utility — revenues | $2,194,420 |
| Storm Drain Utility — expenditures | $2,536,271 |
| Convention Center — revenues | $791,730 |
| Convention Center — expenditures | $791,600 |
Long-term debt at June 30, 2025 sums exactly to $193,580,229: General Fund lease revenue bonds $12,600,001; capital-projects development fund bonds $9,810,000; parking loan $329,113; airport loans $271,115; Redding Electric Utility bonds $139,625,000; wastewater refunding bonds $30,945,000. The legal debt limit is $471,500,991 (3.75% of the 2024 net taxable value of $12,573,359,756); the book states none of the debt is subject to that limit. Authorized positions total 956 in FY 2025-26, a net decrease of 16, including Police 161 (−13) and Fire 101 (−13).
Elected officials
As named in the biennial budget document. No contact details are shown because none are given in the cited document.
| Mayor | Jack Munns |
| Vice Mayor | Mike Littau |
| Mayor Pro Tem | Erin Resner |
| Council Member | Dr. Paul Dhanuka |
| Council Member | Tenessa Audette |
| City Manager | Barry Tippin |
Source: City of Redding Biennial Budget 2025–2027, Municipal Officials.
Sources & notes
- Only source used: City of Redding, Biennial Budget 2025–2027 (cityofredding.gov). Biennial Budget 2025–2027.
- Sum checks: General Fund revenues exact ($110,413,310); General Fund expenditures exact ($110,550,445); enterprise revenues exact ($273,497,150); enterprise expenditures exact ($307,463,139); special revenue expenditures exact ($11,639,760); long-term debt exact ($193,580,229); net all-funds expenditures arithmetic exact against the printed total ($556,609,590 − $127,935,659 = $428,673,931).
- What is not claimed: the exact adoption day (not verified in extracted text); the $2,000 revenue-narrative difference and the $3,604,927 expenditure-total difference, both disclosed above; internal-service expenditure detail lines (not shown because their extracted lines do not reconcile to the printed internal-service total); second-year FY 2026-27 figures are in the book (General Fund revenues $112,678,870; expenditures $114,868,057) but this page covers FY 2025-26 only.
- Jurisdiction palette: no verified Redding palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a city color.