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City of San Mateo Budget Overview

FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget

This page is an initial adopted-budget overview for City of San Mateo residents. It shows top-level funding, operating budget, and General Fund context from the official City budget document.

It does not compare against a FY 2026-27 proposed or recommended budget because that comparison layer has not been source-verified for this city.

Budget status and timeline

Status
Adopted Budget
The official City budget page identifies this source as the adopted FY 2025-26 budget. CivicCause presents it as an adopted-only public overview.
Important Dates

No separate FY 2026-27 proposed or recommended timeline is shown on this page yet because that comparison source has not been verified for City of San Mateo.

The source-label caveat is handled below as methodology, not as a warning that changes the budget status.

FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget Headlines

Total sources
$320,745,825
Citywide sources of funding from the budget overview.
PDF page 29
Operating budget
$271,974,917
Operating budget categories; internal services are excluded from the source total.
PDF page 32
General Fund resources
$187,755,485
General Fund resources from the limited General Fund summary.
PDF page 43
Use of fund balance
$11,953,724
Shown separately because it is not ongoing revenue.
PDF page 43
Initial adopted-budget overview

Public context before comparison data exists

Santa Clara's canonical budget page leads with recommended-versus-adopted comparison where source data supports it. City of San Mateo is currently presented as an adopted-only overview, so this page keeps the same public budget rhythm while avoiding unsupported 2026-27 comparison or trend claims.

Largest FY 2025-26 Funding Sources

The biggest source categories from the Citywide Sources of Funding table. Smaller categories remain source-linked but are not promoted as primary public cards.

PDF page 29
Charges for Services
$108,287,708
33.8% of this table
PDF page 29
Property Tax
$90,822,000
28.3% of this table
PDF page 29
Sales Tax
$32,312,001
10.1% of this table
PDF page 29
Intergovernmental
$15,300,281
4.8% of this table
PDF page 29
Investment Income
$12,162,446
3.8% of this table

FY 2025-26 Operating Budget Overview

Operating categories are shown at the same high level as the source table. Department detail, staffing, and capital projects are intentionally outside this first public page.

PDF page 32
Operating
$107,125,790
39.4% of this table
PDF page 32
Salaries and Wages
$76,773,678
28.2% of this table
PDF page 32
Benefits
$49,313,916
18.1% of this table
PDF page 32
San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department Contribution and Fire Legacy Costs
$38,761,533
14.3% of this table

Where the money comes from

This compact list keeps the public page focused on the cleanest source categories rather than reproducing the entire normalization preview.

Charges for Services
PDF page 29
$108,287,708
33.8%
Property Tax
PDF page 29
$90,822,000
28.3%
Sales Tax
PDF page 29
$32,312,001
10.1%
Intergovernmental
PDF page 29
$15,300,281
4.8%
Investment Income
PDF page 29
$12,162,446
3.8%

Where the operating budget goes

This section uses broad operating categories only. It does not show department-level budget detail, staffing, CIP/capital projects, or forecasts.

Operating
PDF page 32
$107,125,790
39.4%
Salaries and Wages
PDF page 32
$76,773,678
28.2%
Benefits
PDF page 32
$49,313,916
18.1%
San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department Contribution and Fire Legacy Costs
PDF page 32
$38,761,533
14.3%

General Fund context

General Fund resources and use of fund balance are surfaced as headline cards above. The detailed General Fund row schedule remains admin-preview material until it receives a separate public QA pass.

General Fund resources$187,755,485
Use of fund balance$11,953,724
PDF page 43

Methodology and caveats

Values are copied from bounded normalization-preview rows and retain official source page references. CivicCause has not imported these rows into production budget tables for this page.

The official City budget page labels this document Adopted 2025-26 Budget, but the PDF tables often retain 2025-26 Proposed Budget column labels. Treat preview rows as adopted-source candidates that still need manual QA before import.

Deferred detail: staffing/FTE, CIP and capital projects, department-level budget detail, forecasts, pension schedules, AI summaries, recommendations, trends, issue/cause mapping, and adopted-vs-proposed comparisons.

The full source-by-fund schedule and detailed General Fund rows are available in the admin preview but are intentionally not shown as major public sections yet.

Sources

Preview dataset groups
  • Citywide sources by category (PDF page 29)
  • Operating budget by category (PDF page 32)
  • Limited General Fund summary (PDF page 43)
  • Sources by fund group (PDF page 30) is retained for admin preview and not promoted as a primary public section.