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Fire Administration through the years

Explore reported actual expenditures. Expand a line item to compare its reported amounts.

ExpenditureActual2019-2020Actual2020-2021Actual2021-2022Actual2022-2023Actual2023-2024Actual2024-2025
Personnel
77,45679,156121,417126,879144,677153,768
FICA5,6405,8957,9939,09210,69911,445
Group Life & Health Insurance6,9068,13215,79819,23119,83621,544
10,14510,34711,19415,08716,07526,935
Workers Compensation Insurance501310461458767785
Employee Education & Training37758783877241990
Disability Insurance282295408479546626
Deferred Compensation1,4181,4462,4332,4912,8303,046
Subtotal — Personnel102,725106,168160,542174,489195,849218,239
Operations
Freight & Delivery Service63119969200184137
Printing0025143
444855444422794983
Telephone533512485861990971
Repairs and Maintenance03050
Travel1,2566259321,3401,054935
7879058801,33242221
Clothing & Uniforms439548459239370613
Professional Supplies004067
Gasoline & Diesel1,3211,2742,3932,7342,3261,556
1,7801,2716598109
Fleet Management6,0006,0006,0006,0006,0007,000
Contracted Services4041762,1772252,2371,049
Liability Insurance1,8812,0633,4633,5165,3066,454
Subtotal — Operations14,90814,65318,55817,01019,41219,986
Capital
Fixed Assets3,92604,92794423417,193
Subtotal — Capital3,92604,92794423417,193
TOTAL FIRE ADMINISTRATION121,559120,821184,027192,443215,495255,418
Latest budget — FY 2026-2027Compare the proposed budget with the amount Council approved.

Approved amounts authorize spending; they are not actual expenditure. These are the stages printed in the budget book, which may not include later amendments.

BudgetBudgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026Manager proposedFY 2026-2027Council approvedFY 2026-2027
Department total245,600252,500251,800
Budget line items
ExpenditureBudgeted / amendedFY 2025-2026Manager proposedFY 2026-2027Council approvedFY 2026-2027
Salaries154,000159,000159,000
Longevity3,3003,5003,500
Salaries: Special800800800
FICA11,60012,40012,400
Group Life & Health Insurance22,00025,00025,000
Retirement13,00013,00013,000
Retirement - 401A3,5003,8003,800
Workers Compensation Insurance800900900
Employee Education & Training2,0002,0002,000
Disability Insurance600600600
Deferred Compensation3,1003,2003,200
Freight & Delivery Service400400400
Printing400400400
Publication of Reports & Legal Notices100100100
Subscriptions200200200
Member Dues & Registration Fees900900900
Telephone1,0001,0001,000
Repairs and Maintenance Office Machines & Equipment500500500
Repairs and Maintenance Mot or Vehicle & Equipment500500500
Repairs and Maintenance Radios & Communication Equipment300300300
Travel2,2002,2002,200
Office Supplies300300300
Clothing & Uniforms800800800
Professional Supplies300300300
Gasoline & Diesel2,5002,5002,500
Tires & T ubes1,2001,2001,200
Vehicle & Equipment Parts700700700
Fleet Management7,0007,0006,300
Other Contracts2,0001,5001,500
Liability Insurance6,5007,0007,000
Coffee & Related Items900500500
Fixed Assets2,200--

A dash means no numeric amount is shown in that source cell. No proposal is substituted for a missing approved amount.

Budget source · PDF page 43

What the records showRelated decisions, supporting records, and unanswered questions.

Equipment replacement has supporting context in the finance memorandum.

2023-2024 actual source · page 42 · 2024-2025 actual source · page 43

The FY2024–25 amendment schedule assigns a $12,000 increase to this department’s retirement account (01-0701-5144), changing its budget from $13,000 to $25,000. This is its share of the $629,000 General Fund retirement increase, not a separately verified actual payment. Department pension amendment allocation · page 119.

The audited FY2025 discussion identifies the $629,000 retirement budget increase as an additional defined-benefit pension contribution. Audited pension amendment context · page 24.

The finance memo says Fire had to replace a drone after it malfunctioned and crashed. The attached schedule increases Fire Administration fixed assets by $18,000. The memo does not give an invoice amount or identify the complete composition of the actual fixed-assets row. Finance memorandum — May 7, 2025 · page 118.

The attached schedule shows the relevant proposed budget adjustments. Amounts in this schedule are appropriations, not invoice payments. Budget amendment detail · page 120.

Still unanswered: The budget allocation is documented; the actual pension postings are still needed to reconcile the annual retirement amounts and distinguish regular contributions from the additional contribution.

About these figuresWhat is included and what changed between reports.

Fire Administration only, not the entire Fire Department. Accounting categories do not establish unchanged staffing or responsibilities.

Amounts are shown as reported, without adjusting for inflation. A dash (“—”) means the source shows a dash or does not list a value; it does not necessarily mean zero. Related accounts are grouped for comparison, with available detail under each row.

Sources and methodsOriginal documents, coverage, and how the years were matched.

Download actual expenditures as CSV · Each record distinguishes detail rows from totals and includes its source.

Section reconciliation and differences
  • Personnel: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 174,489 earlier; 174,489 later. FY2022-23 grouped overlap agrees; original account differences remain visible.
  • Operations: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 17,010 earlier; 17,010 later. FY2022-23 grouped overlap agrees; original account differences remain visible.
  • Capital: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 944 earlier; 944 later. FY2022-23 grouped overlap agrees; original account differences remain visible.
How the years were matched
  • The 2022-2023 column now uses the complete later FY2025-26 account breakdown. Its detail agrees with the previously displayed total; the earlier source column is archived.
  • Each column is an ACTUAL fiscal-year column from a later annual budget; source labels, explicit zeros and printed dashes are preserved. Subtotals are excluded to avoid double counting.
  • FY2022-23 PDF40 (printed38) supplies 2019-2020 and 2020-2021; FY2024-25 PDF39 (printed37) supplies 2021-2022 and 2022-2023; FY2025-26 PDF42 (printed34) supplies 2023-2024; FY2026-27 PDF43 (printed36) supplies 2024-2025. Later Administration is department 701, prefix 01-0701.
  • FY2022-23 overlap totals both equal 192,443. Earlier Office Supplies 1,332 versus later Office Supplies 283 differs by 1,049, matching the new Coffee & Related Items amount. These stay separate: the offset does not prove the earlier combined row composition. All other mapped overlap groups agree.
  • FY2023-24 overlap detail rows and total 215,495 agree between the FY2025-26 and FY2026-27 books.
  • Salaries maps Regular and Special; Retirement maps Retirement and 401A. Longevity is separately confirmed. Fleet Maintenance maps Fleet Management with matching 6,000 overlap. No assertion of unchanged operational scope is made.

These changes do not establish changes in service quality or explain why spending changed. Budget amendments and meeting decisions have not been reconciled with this series.

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