Infrastructure
CivicCause Budget Signals
Livermore Budget Overview
Livermore adopted a two-year FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27 operating budget plus a five-year capital plan. The top resident-facing number is the annual all-funds total: $364.4M in FY 2025-26 and $389.7M in FY 2026-27 when operating and CIP appropriations are counted together.
official two-year budget book linked
Balanced
Budget status: Balanced. The official adoption staff report says the budget fully funds required reserves, with total operating and CIP appropriations of $364.4M in FY 2025-26 and $389.7M in FY 2026-27.
Headline signals
FY2026-27 total budget
$389.7M
All funds: $330.7M operating budget plus $59.0M in CIP appropriations.
FY2025-26 total budget
$364.4M
All funds: $317.4M operating budget plus $47.1M in CIP appropriations.
Two-year total
$754.1M
Sum of official FY2025-26 and FY2026-27 operating plus CIP appropriations.
Budget status
Balanced
Official staff report says the budget fully funds required reserves.
FY2026-27 General Fund
$164.8M
General Fund expenditure budget in the official all-funds table.
FY2026-27 CIP
$59.0M
New Capital Improvement Plan appropriations for FY2026-27.
Budget Signals
Taxation and Fiscal Policy
$389.7M
Annual total budget
FY 2026-27 total operating and CIP appropriations across all City funds.
Public Safety
$164.8M
General Fund spending
Core FY 2026-27 General Fund expenditure budget for city services.
Infrastructure
$59.0M
Capital appropriations
FY 2026-27 new Capital Improvement Plan appropriations.
Housing & Homeless Services
$1.041M
CDBG/HOME grant funds
FY 2025-27 allocation and appropriation for Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnership funds.
Economic Development
$300K/FY
Entrepreneurial support
Two-year i-GATE Development Corporation grant agreement for entrepreneurial support and development activities.
Libraries
$240K
Library materials
FY 2025-26 purchase order authority for library books and related materials.
Infrastructure
2025-2030
Capital planning window
Official CIP source is available for future project-level infrastructure review.
What changed from the prior budget cycle?
Source-backed comparison from the official budget adoption staff report. FY2024-25 is the revised baseline; FY2026-27 is the second year of the adopted two-year budget.
Total operating + CIP budget
IncreasePrior source
$378.0M
Current source
$389.7M
Change
+$11.6M
+3.1%
Compares FY2024-25 revised total to FY2026-27 adopted total across operating and CIP appropriations.
Operating budget
DecreasePrior source
$378.0M
Current source
$330.7M
Change
-$47.4M
-12.5%
FY2024-25 revised operating budget included capital funds inside operating funds; FY2026-27 separately adds CIP appropriations.
General Fund expenditures
IncreasePrior source
$159.7M
Current source
$164.8M
Change
+$5.1M
+3.2%
Core General Fund budget rises from FY2024-25 revised to FY2026-27 adopted.
Enterprise Funds
DecreasePrior source
$101.3M
Current source
$82.2M
Change
-$19.1M
-18.9%
Enterprise-fund expenditure budget decreases from FY2024-25 revised to FY2026-27 adopted.
CIP appropriations
IncreasePrior source
$0
Current source
$59.0M
Change
+$59.0M
New annual CIP appropriation
The adopted FY2026-27 total includes separate new CIP appropriations.
Resident-facing operating signals
FY2026-27 operating budget
$330.7M
Total operating budget across all funds.
FY2026-27 General Fund
$164.8M
Core City services fund in the official all-funds table.
Housing and community development
$1.041M
Supported by accessible FY 2025-27 CDBG/HOME Council agenda materials.
Economic development
$300K/FY
Supported by accessible i-GATE grant-agreement Council agenda materials.
Library services
$240K
Supported by accessible FY 2025-26 library-materials purchase authority.
Fees and assessments
FY2026-27
Current Council agendas include Master Fee Schedule and Landscape Maintenance District assessment hearings.
Operating, General Fund, and reserve signals
FY2025-26 operating
$317.4M
Official total operating budget for FY2025-26.
FY2025-26 General Fund
$158.3M
Official General Fund expenditure budget for FY2025-26.
Reserve policy
30%
Official staff report says the budget anticipates compliance with the General Fund reserve policy.
Department movement
Deferred
Still deferred until budget-book department tables are manually reviewed.
Capital and infrastructure signals
FY2025-26 new CIP appropriations total $47.1M.
FY2026-27 new CIP appropriations total $59.0M.
The official City budget page links the broader 2025-2030 Capital Improvement Plan for future project-level review.
Risks and caveats
The official budget-book PDF endpoint blocked automated download/table extraction, but the official June 9, 2025 City Council budget adoption staff report exposed the top-line appropriations table used here. Department-level budget-book comparisons still need manual PDF table review.
The official budget-book PDF endpoint blocked automated command-line retrieval, so department-level budget-book tables remain deferred.
The top-line all-funds, operating, General Fund, and CIP numbers come from the official budget adoption staff report rather than a full budget-book table import.
Agenda-supported narrow signals are real civic spending signals, but they are not the total budget.
Daily Summary and public launch remain deferred for Livermore.
Related causes
Follow the issues behind this budget
These links come from budget categories and cause labels already shown on this page. They point to cause pages where CivicCause tracks related meetings, issues, and civic activity.
Official sources
City of Livermore Budget page
Official source page confirming the two-year financial plan, fiscal year, current budget book, prior budget book, and CIP links.
FY 2025-2027 Budget Book
Official current budget book linked from the City budget page.
FY 2023-2025 Budget Book
Official prior budget book linked from the City budget page.
2025-2030 Capital Improvement Plan
Official current CIP linked from the City budget page.
June 9, 2025 budget adoption agenda
Official agenda item approving the Two-Year Operating Budget and Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan with appropriations for FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27.
June 9, 2025 budget adoption staff report
Official staff report source for all-funds, operating, General Fund, CIP, and reserve-policy figures used on this page.
June 23, 2025 City Council agenda
Official agenda surface used for accessible budget-adjacent allocations and public-hearing items.
CDBG/HOME FY 2025-27 recommendations
Official attachment supporting the accessible $1.041M housing/community-development allocation signal.
Related civic activity
See where budget topics show up in public records
These links use existing cause relationships in Livermore: public meetings, tracked issues, and organizations already connected to the same causes as this budget.
Housing Affordability
Taxation and Fiscal Policy
Business Development
Crime and Public Safety
Homelessness
Share this budget