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Monte Sereno Budget Overview
FY 2025-26 Budget and Recent Trends
Draft budget previewBudget document: FY 2025-26 adopted budget PDF
Monte Sereno's CivicCause budget overview highlights major current-year budget changes, department shifts, recent trends, and the official public source documents behind them.
This Monte Sereno budget preview is available for internal and prelaunch review. The published adopted General Fund budget column currently implies an approximately $146K surplus, revenue and expenditure comparisons are General Fund-focused, separately printed FY 2025/26 project/program columns are preserved outside the main total budget card, and department comparison/trend tables were not imported because the source did not expose them cleanly.
General Fund Budget
$4.8M
This figure reflects the General Fund budget shown in the imported source, not necessarily the full all-funds city budget.
Projected Surplus
$146.0K
Derived as current total revenues minus current total expenditures.
What Changed
Largest department-level changes in the strongest currently loaded comparison layer.
No notable comparison changes are available.
Budget units
Sunnyvale FY 2025/26 adopted budget-unit data. Prior-year comparisons are not available in the current public data.
Current-year rows are not available.
Expenditure categories
Monte Sereno FY 2024/25 to FY 2025/26 expenditure comparison from the adopted budget PDF, using the published adopted General Fund budget column.
| Name | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | Delta | % Change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Government | $528,432 | $445,200 | -$83.2K | -15.75% | ↓Decrease |
| Personnel | $1,916,373 | $1,977,158 | +$60.8K | +3.17% | ↑Increase |
| Law Enforcement | $1,235,514 | $1,269,600 | +$34.1K | +2.76% | ↑Increase |
| Total Expenditures | $4,780,219 | $4,803,108 | +$22.9K | +0.48% | ↑Increase |
| Administration | $602,700 | $607,200 | +$4.5K | +0.75% | ↑Increase |
| City Attorney | $100,000 | $103,000 | +$3.0K | +3.00% | ↑Increase |
| City Audit | $52,900 | $54,600 | +$1.7K | +3.21% | ↑Increase |
| Equipment and Improvement | $60,000 | $61,700 | +$1.7K | +2.83% | ↑Increase |
| Special Districts | $2,800 | $3,150 | +$350 | +12.50% | ↑Increase |
| Building and Improvement | $0 | $0 | +$0 | — | →Flat |
| Building Maintenance | $24,000 | $24,000 | +$0 | +0.00% | →Flat |
| Construction | $20,000 | $20,000 | +$0 | +0.00% | →Flat |
| Engineering | $15,000 | $15,000 | +$0 | +0.00% | →Flat |
| Maintenance | $222,500 | $222,500 | +$0 | +0.00% | →Flat |
Revenue
Monte Sereno FY 2024/25 to FY 2025/26 revenue comparison from the adopted budget PDF, using the published adopted General Fund budget column.
| Name | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | Delta | % Change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Revenues | $4,718,200 | $4,949,100 | +$230.9K | +4.89% | ↑Increase |
| Property Taxes | $2,990,600 | $3,140,200 | +$149.6K | +5.00% | ↑Increase |
| Licenses and Permits | $806,900 | $847,300 | +$40.4K | +5.01% | ↑Increase |
| Franchise Taxes | $476,000 | $500,100 | +$24.1K | +5.06% | ↑Increase |
| Interest | $206,000 | $216,300 | +$10.3K | +5.00% | ↑Increase |
| Real Property Transfer Tax | $76,900 | $80,700 | +$3.8K | +4.94% | ↑Increase |
| Other Revenue | $28,000 | $29,500 | +$1.5K | +5.36% | ↑Increase |
| Intergovernmental | $118,700 | $119,200 | +$500 | +0.42% | ↑Increase |
| Sales Tax | $8,500 | $8,900 | +$400 | +4.71% | ↑Increase |
| Fines | $6,600 | $6,900 | +$300 | +4.55% | ↑Increase |
| Federal, State, or Local Grants | $0 | $0 | +$0 | — | →Flat |
| Gas Tax | $0 | $0 | +$0 | — | →Flat |
Community and Organization Perspectives
Perspectives on this budget will appear here.
Methodology and caveats
- Revenue comparison is General Fund-focused and based on the adopted General Fund budget column in the published FY 2025/26 budget PDF. Monte Sereno publishes a single FY 2025/26 adopted budget PDF that combines General Fund budget tables with separately labeled FY 2025/26 project/program columns. This extraction uses the adopted General Fund budget column as the primary current-year basis for revenue totals, expenditure totals, and the top-line budget cards. The document also includes separate FY 2025/26 project/program columns for unfunded accrued liabilities, the Annual Pavement Management Program, and the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Project. Those values are preserved as a separate projects category dataset rather than being merged into the total budget card. Revenue and expenditure comparison rows are General Fund-focused and come from published summary rows in the adopted PDF. No clean multi-year department trend or clearly labeled department comparison table was confirmed in this first pass, so department comparison and trend datasets are intentionally left empty rather than inferred. The PDF was downloaded locally from the official CivicPlus DocumentCenter URL for extraction stability.
- Expenditure comparison is General Fund-focused and uses the adopted General Fund budget column rather than the separately printed revised/project columns. Monte Sereno publishes a single FY 2025/26 adopted budget PDF that combines General Fund budget tables with separately labeled FY 2025/26 project/program columns. This extraction uses the adopted General Fund budget column as the primary current-year basis for revenue totals, expenditure totals, and the top-line budget cards. The document also includes separate FY 2025/26 project/program columns for unfunded accrued liabilities, the Annual Pavement Management Program, and the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Project. Those values are preserved as a separate projects category dataset rather than being merged into the total budget card. Revenue and expenditure comparison rows are General Fund-focused and come from published summary rows in the adopted PDF. No clean multi-year department trend or clearly labeled department comparison table was confirmed in this first pass, so department comparison and trend datasets are intentionally left empty rather than inferred. The PDF was downloaded locally from the official CivicPlus DocumentCenter URL for extraction stability.
- No clean department-level comparison was confirmed, so this dataset is intentionally empty rather than inferred. Monte Sereno publishes a single FY 2025/26 adopted budget PDF that combines General Fund budget tables with separately labeled FY 2025/26 project/program columns. This extraction uses the adopted General Fund budget column as the primary current-year basis for revenue totals, expenditure totals, and the top-line budget cards. The document also includes separate FY 2025/26 project/program columns for unfunded accrued liabilities, the Annual Pavement Management Program, and the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Project. Those values are preserved as a separate projects category dataset rather than being merged into the total budget card. Revenue and expenditure comparison rows are General Fund-focused and come from published summary rows in the adopted PDF. No clean multi-year department trend or clearly labeled department comparison table was confirmed in this first pass, so department comparison and trend datasets are intentionally left empty rather than inferred. The PDF was downloaded locally from the official CivicPlus DocumentCenter URL for extraction stability.
- No clean multi-year department trend was confirmed, so this dataset is intentionally empty rather than inferred. Monte Sereno publishes a single FY 2025/26 adopted budget PDF that combines General Fund budget tables with separately labeled FY 2025/26 project/program columns. This extraction uses the adopted General Fund budget column as the primary current-year basis for revenue totals, expenditure totals, and the top-line budget cards. The document also includes separate FY 2025/26 project/program columns for unfunded accrued liabilities, the Annual Pavement Management Program, and the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Project. Those values are preserved as a separate projects category dataset rather than being merged into the total budget card. Revenue and expenditure comparison rows are General Fund-focused and come from published summary rows in the adopted PDF. No clean multi-year department trend or clearly labeled department comparison table was confirmed in this first pass, so department comparison and trend datasets are intentionally left empty rather than inferred. The PDF was downloaded locally from the official CivicPlus DocumentCenter URL for extraction stability.
Sources and official documents
FY 2025-26 Adopted Budget PDF
Section: Adopted Budget PDF
Fiscal year: FY 2025/26
Column used: fy-2025-2026-adopted-budget.pdf
Notes: Local PDF artifact imported from /Users/Gumby/Projects/civicpulse/tmp/budget/montesereno/source/fy-2025-2026-adopted-budget.pdf. Document title: The City of Monte Sereno FY 2025/2026 Budget. Monte Sereno publishes a single FY 2025/26 adopted budget PDF that combines General Fund budget tables with separately labeled FY 2025/26 project/program columns. This extraction uses the adopted General Fund budget column as the primary current-year basis for revenue totals, expenditure totals, and the top-line budget cards. The document also includes separate FY 2025/26 project/program columns for unfunded accrued liabilities, the Annual Pavement Management Program, and the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Project. Those values are preserved as a separate projects category dataset rather than being merged into the total budget card. Revenue and expenditure comparison rows are General Fund-focused and come from published summary rows in the adopted PDF. No clean multi-year department trend or clearly labeled department comparison table was confirmed in this first pass, so department comparison and trend datasets are intentionally left empty rather than inferred. The PDF was downloaded locally from the official CivicPlus DocumentCenter URL for extraction stability.