Redwood City, California

Overview

Redwood City’s FY 2025-26 adopted budget totals $407.8 million in all-funds revenues and $396.8 million in expenditures, with 634.0 full-time-equivalent positions. The General Fund expenditure budget is $201.0 million (chart: $200.9 million), up $16.4 million or 8.88% from the FY 2024-25 adopted $184.6 million; salaries, wages, and benefits are $144.0 million, or 71.64% of the General Fund budget. The capital improvement program totals $74.9 million, and the adopted appropriations limit is $1,044,338,532 against $141,825,152 in appropriations from tax proceeds.

Source: City of Redwood City FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, Budget in Brief.

At a glance — adopted budget FY 2025-26

Source: City of Redwood City FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, Budget in Brief.

All funds, FY 2025-26

Expenditures by fund type, as charted in the Budget in Brief (millions), sum to $396.5 million against the stated all-funds expenditure total of $396.8 million — a $0.3 million gap attributable to chart rounding, disclosed here.

Source: City of Redwood City FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, Budget in Brief expenditure-by-fund-type chart.

General Fund, FY 2025-26

General Fund revenues by category, from the Budget in Brief chart (in thousands), sum exactly to $206,901,000, reported as $206.9 million.

General Fund expenditures by department, from the Budget in Brief chart (millions), sum to $200.99 million against the chart total of $200.9 million.

Police and Fire salaries and benefits are approximately $93.2 million, or 64.71% of the General Fund budget. The book notes the General Fund is balanced through the planned use of prior-year operating balances, including a $22 million available General Fund balance from the prior fiscal year, and that a new Economic Stability Reserve of about $2.8 million was established after the Council redirected $2 million of it to pavement management.

Source: City of Redwood City FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, Budget in Brief.

Capital program and debt

The FY 2025-26 capital improvement program totals $74.9 million across 59 projects, against an identified need of $89.2 million (about 18% unfunded in-year). The largest clearly stated functional shares are transportation $33.3 million (44.5%), water $12.8 million, parks $6.2 million, sewer $5.7 million, and public facilities $4.4 million, summing to $62.4 million; the remaining $12.5 million sits in functional areas whose chart labels did not extract cleanly and is not itemized here. The Capital Outlay Fund, drawing mainly on utility users tax and communications users tax, is the primary funding vehicle at $31.79 million for FY 2025-26.

Debt described in the City Debt section (principal remaining): Lease Revenue Bonds Series 2021 (Veterans Memorial Building/Senior Center) $55,680,000; Water Revenue Refunding Bonds Series 2024 $13,245,000; Water Revenue Refunding Bonds Series 2015 $11,895,000; Port of Redwood City 2012 Revenue Bonds $4,495,134; Water Revenue Refunding Bonds Series 2017 $4,085,000; Port of Redwood City 2015 Revenue Bonds $2,675,000. Those listed issues sum to $92,075,134; the section is presented as the listed issues, not as a certified total outstanding.

Source: City of Redwood City FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, Budget in Brief (CIP) and City Debt section.

Elected officials

As named in the adopted budget document, with the contact details printed on the budget’s contact page.

Source: City of Redwood City FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget, title page and contact page.

Sources & notes

• Only source used: City of Redwood City, Fiscal Year 2025-26 Adopted Budget (redwoodcity.org). FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget.
• Sum checks: General Fund revenue categories exact at $000 precision ($206,901,000); General Fund department chart figures sum to $200.99M vs the $200.9M chart total; fund-type chart figures sum to $396.5M vs the stated $396.8M; listed debt principals sum to $92,075,134; CIP stated shares sum to $62.4M vs the $74.9M program total, with the $12.5M balance not itemized.
• What is not claimed: exact-dollar consolidated schedules (they did not extract as text from the book); a certified total debt outstanding (only the listed issues are shown); no vote count for adoption (not stated in the extracted text); the transmittal letter’s “recommended” wording is quoted where it appears, but the document cover and adoption materials are the Adopted Budget.
• Jurisdiction palette: no verified Redwood City palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a city color.

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