Overview
Santa Rosa’s FY 2025-26 adopted budget totals $554,023,382 in expenditures across all funds, against $516,876,528 in revenues. The budget was adopted after the city closed a preliminary General Fund deficit of nearly $20 million with $11.6 million in additional reductions — eliminating 37.0 FTEs, cutting homeless services program funding by $1.4 million, and discontinuing the annual post-employment healthcare trust funding of $1.5 million — leaving an adopted General Fund deficit of $8.4 million to be covered from Fiscal Stability Reserves. The General Fund alone budgets $215,086,900 in revenues and $216,756,652 in expenditures. Estimated reserves fall from $394,200,000 at June 30, 2025 to $357,053,146 at June 30, 2026.
Source: City of Santa Rosa, FY 2025-26 Operations and Maintenance Budget.
At a glance — FY 2025-26 adopted
Source: City of Santa Rosa, FY 2025-26 Operations and Maintenance Budget, All City Funds Schedule.
All funds, FY 2025-26
All-funds revenues of $516,876,528 are the exact sum of the schedule’s revenue categories. All-funds expenditures of $554,023,382 are the exact sum of the schedule’s expenditure rows by function. Transfers in ($109,431,037) equal transfers out ($109,431,037) across all funds; total resources including transfers are $626,307,565 and total uses including transfers are $663,454,419, for a net deficit of $37,146,854, matching the schedule’s surplus/(deficit) row.
| Charges for services | $189,037,725 |
| Intergovernmental revenue | $102,867,251 |
| Sales tax | $90,160,647 |
| Other taxes | $53,072,700 |
| Property tax | $44,482,639 |
| Utility users tax | $14,361,000 |
| Miscellaneous | $10,609,371 |
| Licenses & permits | $5,591,831 |
| Investment earnings | $4,822,194 |
| Fines & forfeitures | $1,626,000 |
| Contributions from private parties | $245,170 |
| Total revenues | $516,876,528 |
Expenditures by function (all funds):
| Water | $191,163,434 |
| Police | $85,981,822 |
| Fire | $70,938,285 |
| Transportation & Public Works | $68,630,992 |
| Housing & Community Services | $61,042,184 |
| Recreation & Parks | $34,131,982 |
| General Government | $31,184,479 |
| Planning & Economic Development | $20,115,084 |
| Non-Departmental | ($9,164,880) |
| Total expenditures | $554,023,382 |
Source: City of Santa Rosa, FY 2025-26 Operations and Maintenance Budget, All City Funds Schedule.
General Fund detail
General Fund revenues of $215,086,900 are the exact sum of the revenue categories below. Tax revenues of $179,350,700 are the exact sum of the tax detail; other revenues of $35,736,200 complete the total. General Fund expenditures of $216,756,652 plus transfers out of $9,238,599, less transfers in of $2,543,150 and revenues of $215,086,900, give the $8,365,201 deficit shown in the schedule — exact.
| Sales taxes | $70,465,000 |
| Property taxes | $41,452,000 |
| Motor vehicle license fees | $19,752,000 |
| Utility use taxes | $14,361,000 |
| Franchise fees | $12,820,700 |
| Transient occupancy tax | $8,000,000 |
| Business licenses | $7,000,000 |
| Real property transfer tax | $3,500,000 |
| Cannabis industry tax | $2,000,000 |
| Total tax revenues | $179,350,700 |
| Charges for services | $26,511,200 |
| Licenses and permits | $3,181,000 |
| Intergovernmental revenue | $1,917,000 |
| Miscellaneous revenues | $1,911,000 |
| Fines and forfeitures | $1,616,000 |
| Investment earnings | $600,000 |
| Total other revenues | $35,736,200 |
| Total General Fund revenues | $215,086,900 |
General Fund expenditures by function: Police $79,987,062; Fire $58,893,388; Transportation & Public Works $27,758,765; General Government $21,839,797; Planning & Economic Development $19,073,064; Recreation & Parks $18,368,897; Water $728,209; Non-Departmental ($9,892,530). These sum exactly to $216,756,652.
Elected officials
As listed on the budget document’s title pages.
| Mayor | Mark Stapp |
| Vice Mayor | Eddie Alvarez |
| Council Member | Caroline Bañuelos |
| Council Member | Victoria Fleming |
| Council Member | Dianna MacDonald |
| Council Member | Jeff Okrepkie |
| Council Member | Natalie Rogers |
| City Manager (appointed) | Maraskeshia Smith |
Source: City of Santa Rosa, FY 2025-26 Operations and Maintenance Budget, title pages.
Sources & notes
- Source used: City of Santa Rosa, FY 2025-26 Operations and Maintenance Budget. Budget document. Adoption June 17, 2025, per the council meeting record; transmittal letter dated July 1, 2025.
- Sum checks: all-funds revenues exact ($516,876,528); all-funds expenditures exact ($554,023,382); General Fund tax revenues exact ($179,350,700); General Fund total revenues exact ($215,086,900); General Fund expenditure rows exact ($216,756,652); General Fund deficit walk exact ($8,365,201); reserves walk exact ($394,200,000 − $37,146,854 = $357,053,146).
- What is not claimed: Internal Service Funds are excluded from the All City Funds schedule by the document’s own design, so no consolidated all-funds figure including them is shown; no total staffing or outstanding-debt figure is claimed from the extracted summary schedules; the transmittal’s rounded $554 million / $478 million / $76 million figures are not used as separate totals.
- Jurisdiction palette: no verified Santa Rosa palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a city color.