Santa Clara Budget Overview

FY 2025/26 Adopted Budget and Recent Trends

This page shows Santa Clara's adopted FY 2025/26 department-level budget and 5-year department trends.

Budget status and lifecycle

FY 2025/26 department-level rows are available from the public Questica portal. FY 2026/27 budget materials exist, but department-level rows were not exposed by the same portal endpoint at the same grain.

Top-line context

Current imported data is department-level, so this section highlights the largest FY 2025/26 departments instead of a synthetic total budget.

What the City Is Spending On

FY 2025/26 department-level operating budget rows from the public Questica portal.

5-Year Department Trends

Priority departments are shown first with starting and latest values, 5-year change, and a simple trend line.

Community and Organization Perspectives

Perspectives on this budget will appear here.

Methodology and caveats

• FY 2025/26 department rows come from the public Questica Open Budget Portal department hierarchy.
• The 5-year department trend is built from Questica historical BudgetYear values 2022 through 2026.
• Questica BudgetYear N is mapped to fiscal year N-1/N.
• FY 2026/27 department-level rows were not returned by the same portal endpoint at this grain, so this page does not fabricate a department comparison for that year.
• Electric Utility and Water and Sewer Utility Dept are preserved as utility and enterprise departments rather than merged into broader rollups.
• FY 2025/26 department rows come from the public Questica department hierarchy. FY 2026/27 department rows were not returned by the same endpoint and are not fabricated here.
• Questica BudgetYear N is mapped to fiscal year N-1/N. Electric Utility and Water and Sewer Utility Dept are preserved as separate utility and enterprise departments.

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