Marina’s budget over time
A long-term budget page should show total budget, spending, operations/maintenance, growth-related spending, parks/recreation and population on a common timeline.
What old budgets tell us
The City's online budget archive provides annual adopted budgets back to FY 2008–09. The 2008–09 budget is particularly useful context: it estimated $13.10M in General Fund money raised against $18.44M of spendings and identified reserves including a $2.70M dedicated reserve set-aside, $4.0M special reserve and $1.08M working-project balance. It also explicitly discussed the City's need to front certain infrastructure costs pending developer reimbursement.
What the records show
The City's online archive provides adopted budgets back to FY2008–09 and current ACFRs. A defensible 1990–2025 chart requires older archival budgets plus normalization for changes in fund structure; this site will not invent those missing years.
| Period | What can be documented | Use on this site |
|---|---|---|
| FY2008–09 onward | City budget archive provides annual adopted budget documents. | Can be extracted into comparable General Fund and project series after breakdown. |
| FY2024–25 | General Fund day-to-day budget ≈$34.9M; March 2025 workshop also documents building and improvement projects and impact-fee balances. | Current benchmark for day-to-day/project competition. |
| FY2025–26 | General Fund ≈$38.5M; all City funds ≈$141M. | Shows why “the City budget” is much larger than the unrestricted General Fund. |
| FY2026–27 | General Fund ≈$39.7M. | Current day-to-day baseline. |
City budget archive ↗ · March 2025 budget workshop ↗ · Current General Fund summary ↗
Where City finances stand now
The City reports a FY2025–26 General Fund of $38.5M and FY2026–27 of $39.7M within a $141M total City budget for FY2025–26. It identifies public safety, public works, recreation, planning and administration as General Fund activities. The facility question therefore belongs inside the broader project-and-day-to-day picture rather than being treated as the City's only project priority.
City facilities and budget summary ↗ · FY2025–26 / FY2026–27 adopted budget ↗
Before connecting another City controversy to Measure Q
Marina has legitimate disputes about development agreements, parks, rentals, litigation, public records, old Council decisions and project delivery. A controversy does not automatically become a Measure Q funding fact.
| Test | Question to ask |
|---|---|
| Source | What primary record supports the claim, and what date or decision does it actually describe? |
| Context | Is a later outcome being compared with the facts, prices, contracts or law that existed when the decision was made? |
| Money | Is the amount unrestricted General Fund money that could actually be moved, or is it restricted, set aside, project-specific, future money raised or a negotiated obligation? |
| Magnitude | Even if the claim is correct, is the amount large enough to materially change the facilities funding problem? |
| Measure Q link | Does it change the tax, taxable base, facilities need, funding plan or available unrestricted resources? If not, keep it as a oversight issue rather than using it as a substitute for the Measure Q analysis. |
How do other City issues fit?
Parks, Preston Park, development incentives, litigation, recreation facilities and transportation projects can be legitimate questions without necessarily being the same financial question as Measure Q. Use the City Issues & Measure Q FAQ to see what is directly related, indirectly related, or financially separate.
City budget books by financial year
These are the City's primary adopted-budget records. For two-year budget cycles, one adopted budget book covers both financial years. Use these before relying on isolated screenshots or a single fund-balance number.
| Financial year(s) | Primary record | City source |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2025-26 / 2026-27 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2023-24 / 2024-25 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2021-22 / 2022-23 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2019-20 / 2020-21 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2018-19 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2017-18 | Budget Summary | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2016-17 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2015-16 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2014-15 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2013-14 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2012-13 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2011-12 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2010-11 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2009-10 | Adopted Budget / City archive | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
| FY 2008-09 | Adopted Budget | Open City PDF / record ↗ |
The City also maintains one budget index containing adopted budgets and mid-cycle changes. Older records vary in format, and some years are represented by a full budget book while 2017-18 also has a shorter summary.