Budget Documents

The City's Adopted Budget is organized in a manner to facilitate your general understanding of the City's fiscal status, to present management's assessment of major issues, and to present the plan for allocating resources to address those issues during the coming fiscal year. The City's fiscal year is July 1 through June 30. Accordingly, City Council annually adopts the City's operating and capital budgets for a single fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30 in the subsequent calendar year.

Operating Budget: Plan for the day-to-day revenues and expenses required to deliver services to City residents. The operating budget is organized by the following sections:

Budget Message                   General Fund Other Funds

Capital Improvement Program Summary Tables Appendix

Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) Budget: Plan for the major improvements and long-term investments in City facilities and infrastructure, supported by taxes, bonds, grants and other sources of funding. The CIP budget is organized by the following sections:

City Strategic Plan

The City's Strategic Plan provides a comprehensive framework that ensures priorities set by the City Council are clear to all employees, goals are laid out that respond to priorities, objectives are achieved that meet the goals, and that city government is accountable to meeting community needs.

The Strategic Plan centers on five core goals: 

	Operational Excellence		Strong & Secure Neighborhoods
	Economic Vitality		Connected Community
	Healthy Community

Each goal is established to improve the quality of life for Chula Vista residents and businesses. The City's Adopted Budget identifies the resources to support their achievement.