CivicCause budget overview
Brisbane Budget Overview
FY2025/26 adopted General Fund budget with FY2026/27 adopted second-year General Fund budget context
Brisbane's FY2025/26 General Fund is balanced using planned fund balance. The adopted budget shows recurring expenditures exceeding recurring revenues by about $1.02M, with the gap covered from available fund balance rather than a simple operating surplus.
General Fund revenue
$31.28M
FY2025/26 adopted General Fund revenues.
General Fund spending
$32.30M
FY2025/26 adopted General Fund expenditures.
Operating result
-$1.02M
Recurring expenditures exceed recurring revenues before planned fund balance use.
FY2026/27 planned use
-$1.75M
Second-year planned use of General Fund balance from the adopted budget materials.
Budget status: Balanced using planned fund balance. FY2025/26 General Fund revenues are $31.28M and expenditures are $32.30M, producing a $1.02M operating gap before fund balance.
General Fund summary
FY2025/26 General Fund revenues
$31,277,438
Adopted General Fund revenue budget.
FY2025/26 General Fund expenditures
$32,300,517
Adopted General Fund expenditure budget.
FY2026/27 General Fund revenues
$31,626,718
Second-year General Fund revenue budget from the adoption packet.
FY2026/27 General Fund expenditures
$33,379,170
Second-year General Fund expenditure budget from the adoption packet.
FY2025/26 and FY2026/27 General Fund comparison
Measure
FY2025/26
FY2026/27
Change
General Fund revenues
$31.28M
$31.63M
+$349K
General Fund expenditures
$32.30M
$33.38M
+$1.08M
Planned use of fund balance
-$1.02M
-$1.75M
-$729K
Major General Fund revenue categories
Sales Tax
$9.24M
Largest listed General Fund revenue category in FY2025/26.
Property Tax
$7.64M
Major General Fund revenue source.
Business License
$5.51M
Major General Fund revenue source; staff materials note business-license study and revenue caveats.
Fees & Services
$2.02M
Budgeted General Fund fees and service charges.
Transient Occupancy Tax
$2.01M
Hotel tax revenue; staff materials note it remains below pre-COVID averages.
Franchise Taxes
$1.30M
Budgeted General Fund franchise tax revenue.
Major General Fund expenditure categories
Patrol
$5.81M
Largest listed General Fund department/program spending category.
Fire
$5.01M
Major public safety expenditure.
Community Development
$2.37M
Planning, building, and related community development functions.
City Manager
$2.16M
General government and executive administration.
Finance
$2.01M
Finance administration and related services.
Central Services
$1.36M
Central administrative service costs.
Streets / Storm Drains
$1.17M
Transportation and drainage-related maintenance spending.
Fund structure
General Fund
Main operating fund
Supports the City's core operating services and is funded by taxes, program fees, and service charges.
Utility Fund
Enterprise / proprietary
Business-type activity funded primarily through user charges.
Marina Fund
Enterprise / proprietary
Business-type activity funded primarily through user charges.
GVMID and Successor Agency
Separate budgets
Adoption materials also include separate district/agency budget actions.
Budget Signals
- Budget documents identify an FY2025/26 General Fund operating gap of about $1.02M before planned fund balance use.
- The staff report describes the budget as balanced within available resources, not as a simple operating surplus.
- Sales tax, property tax, and business license revenue are the largest listed General Fund revenue categories.
- Public safety is the largest spending area among the listed General Fund department/program categories, led by Patrol and Fire.
- Development-related revenue should be described cautiously; the budget materials keep building and planning fee assumptions conservative and do not support framing Baylands as a current budget driver.
Cause-oriented budget signals
Public Safety
$10.82M
Patrol and Fire are the two largest listed General Fund spending categories.
Infrastructure / Transportation
$1.17M
Streets / Storm Drains is the clearest listed transportation and drainage operating category.
Housing / Development
$2.37M
Community Development is a major General Fund spending category; current materials use conservative development-fee assumptions.
Governance / Administration
$5.53M
City Manager, Finance, and Central Services are major general government categories.
The current Brisbane budget values come from the June 5, 2025 City Council CivicClerk agenda packet and adoption materials. A standalone FY2025/26 adopted budget PDF was not found in the public budget archive during source extraction.
Official sources
Brisbane Budget page
Official City budget landing page.
Brisbane Budget archive
Official City archive checked for standalone budget documents.
June 5, 2025 CivicClerk agenda packet
Authoritative source used for FY2025/26 and FY2026/27 budget adoption tables in this preview.
2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
Prior actuals support source; newer ACFR availability should be rechecked before deeper comparison import.
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