Sonoma County, California

Overview

Sonoma County’s FY2025-26 adopted budget totals $2,783,920,427 in financing sources and uses. Intergovernmental revenues of $1,080,527,148 are the largest source, followed by taxes of $706,029,698 and use of fund balance/net assets of $374,255,241. On the uses side, Administrative & Fiscal Services leads at $715,208,813, followed by Health & Human Services at $605,814,231; capital projects jump to $289,362,307 in the adopted year. Salaries & Benefits of $951,665,797 are the largest use by type, against 4,499.13 total permanent positions (FTE) adopted.

Source: County of Sonoma, Adopted Budget, Fiscal Year 2025-26 (County Budget Financing Sources and Uses Summary).

At a glance — FY 2025-26 adopted

Source: County of Sonoma, Adopted Budget, FY 2025-26.

Countywide financing, FY 2025-26 adopted

Financing sources sum exactly to $2,783,920,427.

Use of financing by function sums exactly to $2,783,920,427: Administrative & Fiscal Services $715,208,813; Justice Services $332,747,942; Health & Human Services $605,814,231; Development Services $382,354,960; Natural Resources and Agriculture $443,478,179; Capital Projects $289,362,307; Increase to Fund Balance/Net Assets $14,953,995.

Use of financing by type also sums exactly: Salaries & Benefits $951,665,797; Services & Supplies $899,127,423; Other Charges $927,174,056; Fixed Assets $452,508,176; Operating Transfers $80,613,148; less Reimbursements ($547,122,168); Appropriations for Contingencies $5,000,000; Increase to Fund Balance/Net Assets $14,953,995.

Source: County of Sonoma, Adopted Budget, FY 2025-26 (County Budget Financing Sources and Uses Summary, pp. 50–51).

General Fund, FY 2025-26 adopted

The book’s General Fund page charts FY2025-26 General Fund sources and uses at $758.9 million each, explicitly excluding the General Reserve Fund and Accumulated Capital Outlay (ACO) funds. Its footnotes add that the “Other” uses slice includes General Government Transfers ($36.7 million) and Increases to Fund Balance ($4.4 million); the “Other” sources slice includes Licenses/Permits/Franchises ($25.7 million), Fines/Forfeitures/Penalties ($9.3 million), Use of Money/Property ($9.0 million), Miscellaneous Revenues ($5.6 million), and Other Financing Sources ($58.2 million); and that Use of Prior Year Fund Balance includes $28.2 million in carryover fund balance. Because these are chart-rounded millions, no exact General Fund table is shown and no sum-check is claimed for the General Fund.

Source: County of Sonoma, Adopted Budget, FY 2025-26 (General Fund chart, p. 53).

Elected officials

From the adopted budget book’s Government Directory of Elective & Appointed Officers.

Source: County of Sonoma, Adopted Budget, FY 2025-26 (Government Directory). County Executive’s Office: 575 Administration Drive, Suite 104A, Santa Rosa, CA 95403, (707) 565-2431.

Board meetings

The Board of Supervisors normally holds its regular meetings on Tuesdays, beginning at 8:30 a.m., in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, 575 Administration Drive, Room 102A, Santa Rosa. Specific meeting dates are set by the Board Schedule — not every Tuesday.

County of Sonoma Board of Supervisors meeting calendar (Legistar)

No next meeting date is asserted here — see the official Board Schedule for the next scheduled date.

Livability — Sonoma County

Sonoma County scores 59.2 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #12 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 280.6 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 88.6, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.

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 — Sonoma County

County-level figures for Sonoma County.

Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).

Public schools — Sonoma County

Schools physically located in Sonoma County.

179 public schools in 60 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).

2 schools in the NCES 2024–25 locations list for this county are not shown because they are not currently open: Academy of Innovative Arts (status 7), Valley Vista Public Waldorf (status 7) — temporarily closed (status 6) or scheduled to open within 2 years (status 7) under NCES CCD operational status codes.

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 Sonoma County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.

GF figure: General Fund, FY 2025-26 adopted (chart-rounded; millions precision).

Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published (Fund Balance/Net Assets $374,255,241 is countywide, not GF)

Contra Costa County: Fund-balance % dashed: available fund balance $244,687,965 is beginning, not ending

Lake County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($13,669,130 is governmental provisions for obligated balances, not GF ending)

Marin County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

Mendocino County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

Napa County: Fund-balance % dashed: fund balance (estimated) $26,810,648 is beginning/available, not ending

Solano County: No Solano County dashboard in this dataset (no county GF figure exists here); a city dashboard in the county, if any, does not supply a county figure.

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

• Sources used: County of Sonoma, Adopted Budget, Fiscal Year 2025-26 — County Budget Financing Sources and Uses Summary (pp. 50–51) and General Fund chart (p. 53). Adopted budget book. Adoption recorded as June 10, 2025, Resolution 25-0300.
• Sum checks: countywide sources exact; uses by function exact; uses by type exact (after the reimbursements deduction). No sum-check is claimed for the chart-rounded General Fund figure.
• Basis flags: all exact figures are FY2025-26 Adopted columns; the General Fund $758.9M figure is chart-rounded and excludes the General Reserve Fund and ACO funds; the $2.71B recommended figure and secondary ~$2.9B adopted reports are not used (the adopted summary totals $2,783,920,427).
• What is not claimed: no exact General Fund source/use breakdown, no department-level detail beyond the function summaries, and no State Financial Schedules detail are shown.
• Jurisdiction palette: no verified Sonoma County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a county color.

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