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Gilroy Budget Overview

FY 2026 Budget and Recent Trends

Adopted biennial budgetBudget adoption: June 2, 2025

Gilroy's CivicCause budget overview highlights major current-year budget changes, department shifts, recent trends, and the official public source documents behind them.

This Gilroy budget page uses the adopted FY 2026 and FY 2027 combined operating and capital budget book. The top-line operating card reflects the FY 2026 adopted General Fund total, the budget is balanced after using fund balance for one-time investments, the published FY 2026 General Fund variance is preserved as an operating-gap signal, and the capital program remains a separate supporting dataset.

General Fund Budget
$75.9M
This figure reflects the General Fund budget shown in the imported source, not necessarily the full all-funds city budget.
Projected Balance
$0
Derived from the current published surplus / deficit row.
Operating Gap before reserves
-$1.6M
Derived from the current published operating-gap / operating-margin row.
Reserve-backed balance
This budget is balanced after using reserves or fund balance. Recurring revenues are below operating expenditures.

What Changed

Largest department-level changes in the strongest currently loaded comparison layer.

Other General Government
Decrease-24.01%
FY 2025: $6,125,272
FY 2026: $4,654,368
-$1.5M
Decrease
Police
Increase+4.04%
FY 2025: $31,635,174
FY 2026: $32,913,585
+$1.3M
Increase
Public Works
Increase+7.02%
FY 2025: $8,305,995
FY 2026: $8,889,200
+$583.2K
Increase
Community Development
Decrease-3.77%
FY 2025: $6,325,523
FY 2026: $6,086,902
-$238.6K
Decrease
Fire
Increase+1.06%
FY 2025: $15,552,149
FY 2026: $15,716,596
+$164.4K
Increase
Administration
Increase+3.47%
FY 2025: $4,305,191
FY 2026: $4,454,456
+$149.3K
Increase

Department comparison

Gilroy FY 2025 to FY 2026 General Fund department comparison from the adopted FY 2026 and FY 2027 budget book.

NameFY 2025FY 2026Delta% ChangeTrend
Other General Government$6,125,272$4,654,368-$1.5M-24.01%Decrease
Police$31,635,174$32,913,585+$1.3M+4.04%Increase
Public Works$8,305,995$8,889,200+$583.2K+7.02%Increase
Community Development$6,325,523$6,086,902-$238.6K-3.77%Decrease
Fire$15,552,149$15,716,596+$164.4K+1.06%Increase
Administration$4,305,191$4,454,456+$149.3K+3.47%Increase
Human Resources$1,807,320$1,867,098+$59.8K+3.31%Increase
Finance$1,174,466$1,201,524+$27.1K+2.30%Increase

Expenditure categories

Gilroy FY 2025 to FY 2026 General Fund expenditure comparison from the adopted FY 2026 and FY 2027 budget book.

NameFY 2025FY 2026Delta% ChangeTrend
Personnel Expenses$50,916,554$54,370,726+$3.5M+6.78%Increase
Capital Outlay$2,051,403$855,795-$1.2M-58.28%Decrease
Materials and Services$9,891,155$8,808,968-$1.1M-10.94%Decrease
Internal Services Charges$9,419,425$8,833,286-$586.1K-6.22%Decrease
Other Expenses and Charges$452,556$414,955-$37.6K-8.31%Decrease
Interfund Transfers$2,499,998$2,499,998+$0+0.00%Flat
Operating Gap Before ReservesNot yet available in current public data-$1,600,000No clear change
Projected Surplus / DeficitNot yet available in current public data$0No clear change
Total ExpendituresNot yet available in current public data$75,900,000No clear change

Revenue

Gilroy FY 2025 to FY 2026 General Fund revenue comparison from the adopted FY 2026 and FY 2027 budget book.

NameFY 2025FY 2026Delta% ChangeTrend
Total Revenues$70,956,734$74,277,226+$3.3M+4.68%Increase
Charges for Services$7,498,333$9,790,405+$2.3M+30.57%Increase
Taxes$54,360,893$56,123,074+$1.8M+3.24%Increase
Interfund Transfers$1,839,929$1,406,635-$433.3K-23.55%Decrease
Other Revenues$1,655,633$1,396,449-$259.2K-15.65%Decrease
Use of Money and Property$1,581,788$1,388,841-$192.9K-12.20%Decrease
Licenses and Permits$3,236,375$3,363,706+$127.3K+3.93%Increase
Grants and Intergovernmental$595,154$630,642+$35.5K+5.96%Increase
Fines and Forfeitures$188,629$177,474-$11.2K-5.91%Decrease
Other Financing Sources$0$0+$0Flat
Total Revenues and Other Financing SourcesNot yet available in current public data$75,900,000No clear change
Use of Reserves / Fund BalanceNot yet available in current public data$1,600,000No clear change

5-year department trends

This is the deeper trend section. Priority departments are shown first with labeled fiscal years, values, and a simple direction read.

Police
Increase
FY 2023$25,974,573
FY 2026$32,913,585
FY 2023: $26.0MFY 2024: $30.1MFY 2025: $31.6MFY 2026: $32.9M
5-year change: +$6.9M
Increase
Fire
Increase
FY 2023$13,575,990
FY 2026$15,716,596
FY 2023: $13.6MFY 2024: $15.9MFY 2025: $15.6MFY 2026: $15.7M
5-year change: +$2.1M
Increase
Public Works
Increase
FY 2023$6,507,553
FY 2026$8,889,200
FY 2023: $6.5MFY 2024: $6.9MFY 2025: $8.3MFY 2026: $8.9M
5-year change: +$2.4M
Increase

More department series

DepartmentLatest yearLatest value5-year change
AdministrationFY 2026$4,454,456-$429.5KDecrease
Community DevelopmentFY 2026$6,086,902+$1.4MIncrease
FinanceFY 2026$1,201,524+$227.2KIncrease
Human ResourcesFY 2026$1,867,098+$326.6KIncrease
Other General GovernmentFY 2026$4,654,368+$662.6KIncrease

Community and Organization Perspectives

Perspectives on this budget will appear here.

Methodology and caveats

Sources and official documents

FY 2026 and FY 2027 Adopted Budget PDF
https://www.cityofgilroy.org/DocumentCenter/View/16337/FY26-and-FY27-Recommended-Operating-and-Capital-Budget
Section: Adopted Budget PDF
Fiscal year: FY 2026
Column used: fy26-fy27-adopted-budget-book.pdf
Notes: Local PDF artifact imported from tmp/budget/gilroy/source/fy26-fy27-adopted-budget-book.pdf. Document title: City of Gilroy Fiscal Year 2026 and 2027 Adopted Budget. Gilroy's official budget page identifies the FY 2026 and FY 2027 budget as adopted on June 2, 2025. The Document Center URL still contains the word 'Recommended', but the page and the PDF itself both identify this book as the adopted budget. This import uses only the current official adopted FY 2026 / FY 2027 budget book. The separate CIP page still prominently links the older FY 2024 through FY 2028 CIP book, so that older document was not used as the primary capital source for this launch-readiness pass. Top-line operating totals use the published FY 2026 General Fund summary rows from the adopted all-funds overview. Revenue and expenditure category rows remain grounded in the detailed FY 2026 General Fund tables. The imported operating gap before reserves comes directly from the published FY 2026 General Fund variance in the adopted all-funds summary. Capital output is a high-level FY 2026 program rollup from the capital tables embedded in the adopted FY 2026 / FY 2027 budget book. It remains separate from the operating top-line cards. No values were inferred from non-budget narrative text or from the older standalone CIP document.