Overview
San Benito County’s FY2025-26 amended budget totals $282,985,112. It comprises General Fund expenditures of $75,582,462, non-general operational spending of $171,758,021, and total capital improvements projects of $35,644,629. The capital total itself comprises general fund reserves of $7,090,000, restricted general fund reserves of $5,065,000, and non-general fund capital of $23,489,629. General Fund revenues are $71,739,955. The amended budget was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on October 1, 2025, by Resolution No. 2025-79, with a 5-0 vote.
At a glance — FY 2025-26 amended
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All funds summary, FY 2025-26 amended
The three components of the grand total sum exactly to the printed grand total, and the three capital components sum exactly to the printed capital total. Both sum-checks hold with no rounding gap.
| Component | Amount |
|---|---|
| General Fund expenditures | $75,582,462 |
| Non-general operational | $171,758,021 |
| Total capital improvements projects | $35,644,629 |
| Grand total | $282,985,112 |
Capital improvements projects, broken out:
| Capital component | Amount |
|---|---|
| General fund reserves | $7,090,000 |
| Restricted general fund reserves | $5,065,000 |
| Non-general fund | $23,489,629 |
| Total capital improvements projects | $35,644,629 |
General Fund, FY 2025-26 amended
The amended summary prints General Fund revenues of $71,739,955 and General Fund expenditures of $75,582,462. Expenditures exceed revenues by $3,842,507 on these two printed lines; the summary lines reproduced on this page do not identify the balancing item, so no balancing source is claimed here.
| General Fund line | Amount |
|---|---|
| General Fund revenues | $71,739,955 |
| General Fund expenditures | $75,582,462 |
| Expenditures above revenues (difference of the two printed lines) | $3,842,507 |
Elected officials
The supervisors below are the five members of the Board of Supervisors as named in the fully executed Resolution No. 2025-79, with districts as recorded. The resolution was executed by Kollin Kosmicki, Chair; Vanessa Delgado, Clerk of the Board; and Gregory P. Priamos, County Counsel, all dated 10/01/2025.
| Board of Supervisors, District 1 | Dom Zanger |
| Board of Supervisors, District 2 | Kollin Kosmicki |
| Board of Supervisors, District 3 | Mindy Sotelo |
| Board of Supervisors, District 4 | Angela Curro |
| Board of Supervisors, District 5 | Ignacio Velazquez |
| Clerk of the Board | Vanessa Delgado |
| County Counsel | Gregory P. Priamos |
Board meetings
The Board of Supervisors meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 9:00 a.m. in the Board Chambers, 481 Fourth Street, 1st Floor, Hollister.
County of San Benito Board of Supervisors meeting schedule (county agenda system)
Regular-pattern dates — check the official calendar for changes.
Livability — San Benito County
San Benito County scores 55.6 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #16 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 310.3 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 79.8, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.
| Component | Value | Score (0–100) |
|---|---|---|
| Housing affordability (median home value ÷ median household income) | 6.94 | 30.2 |
| Median household income | $114,394 | 85.3 |
| Mean commute time | 36.6 minutes | 0.9 |
| Violent crime (reported crimes per 100,000 residents) | 310.3 | 79.8 |
| High school graduation rate | 91.7% | 77.7 |
| Uninsured rate | 6.8% | 59.5 |
| Unemployment rate | Not retrievable (see note) | — |
Method: percentile rank (count below + 0.5 × count equal) ÷ N × 100, lower-better measures inverted; composite is the mean of available component scores, rounded to 1 decimal; a county needs at least 5 of 7 components or it is unranked, never estimated. Vintages: ACS 2024 5-year (2020–2024) for housing affordability, income, and commute; FBI Crime Data Explorer 2024 for violent crime; County Health Rankings 2025 release for graduation and uninsured. Unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024) is missing for every California county because the BLS public API was unreachable (HTTP 503) on 2026-10-25; composites rest on the other components and will be recomputed if BLS data becomes available.
Housing prices — San Benito County
County-level figures for San Benito County.
| Median home value | $793,400 |
| Median gross rent | $1,992 per month |
Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).
Public schools — San Benito County
Schools physically located in San Benito County.
27 public schools in 13 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).
1 schools in the NCES 2024–25 locations list for this county are not shown because they are not currently open: Polytechnic Academy (status 7) — temporarily closed (status 6) or scheduled to open within 2 years (status 7) under NCES CCD operational status codes.
| School | Level | District | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerated Achievement Academy | Middle (05-08) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Anzar High | High (09-12) | Aromas - San Juan Unified | San Juan Bautista |
| Bitterwater-Tully Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Bitterwater-Tully Elementary | King City |
| Calaveras Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Cerra Vista Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Cienega Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Cienega Union Elementary | Hollister |
| Hollister Dual Language Academy | Elementary (KG-08) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Hollister High | High (09-12) | San Benito High | Hollister |
| Hollister Prep | Elementary (KG-08) | Hollister Prep District | Hollister |
| Jefferson Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Jefferson Elementary | Paicines |
| Ladd Lane Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Maze Middle | Middle (06-08) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Panoche Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Panoche Elementary | Paicines |
| Pinnacles Community | High (07-12) | San Benito County Office of Education | Hollister |
| R. O. Hardin Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Rancho San Justo | Middle (06-08) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Rancho Santana | Elementary (KG-08) | Hollister | Hollister |
| San Andreas Continuation High | High (09-12) | San Benito High | Hollister |
| San Benito County Juvenile Hall Court | Other (KG-12) | San Benito County Office of Education | Hollister |
| San Benito County Opportunity | Middle (07-09) | San Benito County Office of Education | Hollister |
| San Benito County Regional Special Education Center | Not Reported | San Benito County Office of Education | Hollister |
| San Juan | Elementary (KG-08) | Aromas - San Juan Unified | San Juan Bautista |
| Southside Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Southside Elementary | Hollister |
| Spring Grove Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | North County Joint Union Elementary | Hollister |
| Sunnyslope Elementary | Elementary (KG-05) | Hollister | Hollister |
| Tres Pinos Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Tres Pinos Union Elementary | Tres Pinos |
| Willow Grove Elementary | Elementary (KG-08) | Willow Grove Union Elementary | Paicines |
School performance (proficiency): district-level proficiency values are published in the federal Ed Data Express tool and are retrievable by CSV export, but they have not yet been added to this page — the export requires a live-browser download (direct requests to the tool are blocked), so no proficiency figures are shown rather than substituted ones. Source for the list: NCES EDGE Public School Locations — Current, 2024–25.
Neighbor comparison
How San Benito County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.
| Government | Per-capita GF spending | Fund balance % |
|---|---|---|
| San Benito County (this dashboard) | $1,123.23 | — |
| Fresno County | $2,577.01 | — |
| Merced County | $2,082.07 | 29.73% |
| Monterey County | $2,219.19 | — |
| Santa Clara County | $2,856.57 | — |
| Santa Cruz County | $3,161.75 | — |
GF figure: General Fund expenditures, FY 2025-26 (proposed amended budget + Resolution No. 2025-79).
Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published (reserves $7,090,000 + restricted $5,065,000 are capital-component reserves)
Fresno County: Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance available $89,000,000 is beginning, not ending
Monterey County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($23,456,768 is fund-balance use/gap, not ending)
Santa Clara County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published
Santa Cruz County: Fund-balance % dashed: available fund balance $19,600,461 is beginning, not ending
Per-capita GF spending = the dashboard’s published General Fund total ÷ county population (ACS 2024 5-year, table B01003). Fund balance % = published GF ending balance ÷ GF total for the same fiscal year unless noted.
— in the fund-balance column means no GF ending balance is published on that dashboard (adopted budgets typically state only a January 1 balance).
Neighbor rows are county figures for the counties adjacent to the home county (U.S. Census Bureau County Adjacency File, 2024; out-of-state neighbors excluded).
Sources & notes
- Adoption record: Board of Supervisors Budget Hearing, October 1, 2025, item 2.A; Resolution No. 2025-79, adopted 5-0; AYES: Kosmicki, Zanger, Sotelo, Curro, Velazquez. Granicus agenda portal clip (amended-budget summary and fully executed resolution).
- Sum checks (exact, no rounding gap): capital components $7,090,000 + $5,065,000 + $23,489,629 = $35,644,629; grand-total components $75,582,462 + $171,758,021 + $35,644,629 = $282,985,112.
- Basis flags: all figures are the FY2025-26 AMENDED budget throughout — never the originally adopted budget and never the earlier proposed figures, which are not used here. The General Fund lines as printed show expenditures $3,842,507 above revenues, with no balancing item shown in the summary lines reproduced here (disclosed in the notice above and in the General Fund section). Only the summary lines are reproduced: no department-level or fund-level detail beyond these lines is claimed.
- Officials note: supervisors are listed with full names and districts as recorded in the fully executed Resolution No. 2025-79; the Clerk of the Board (Vanessa Delgado) and County Counsel (Gregory P. Priamos) are listed from that same executed resolution, dated 10/01/2025.
- Photo note: no hero photo — photos are a separate pass and this page ships without one rather than with a substitute.
- Jurisdiction palette: Page accent: #4F7A68, sampled from San Benito County's official homepage (sanbenitocountyca.gov) on 2026-10-25 — dark sage/teal-green SERVICE FINDER and MORE EVENTS buttons; header/nav renders white over the hero photo (unusable as an accent); lighter sage EVENTS header #7CA08E, peach search-box border and Translate tab #E09A6B, dark slate footer #46524D noted; Granicus platform template with jurisdiction-specific colors; the dark-theme accent (#CAD7D2) is a lightened tint of the same color for contrast on the dark background. Shades are rendered approximations from the live homepage, not stylesheet values.