INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY

City Manager's 2025 Budget Message: Annual budget message from the City Manager on the 2025 Approved Budget to council and community members.

Budget In Brief: Breakdown of citywide sources, or revenues, and uses, or expenditures.

Budget Highlights: Insights into key 2025 investments as aligned to the city's Sustainability, Equity, and Resilience (SER) Framework. 

Citywide Context: A summary of Boulder’s demographics, an overview of the strategic planning, budget development process, and long-term financial strategy, city’s organizational chart, and a high-level summary of fund accounting.

Transparency Portal: Detailed budget data within the online budget book, broken down by program areas, departments, expenditure and revenue types. 

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Summary:

A summary of the approved 2025-2030 CIP by department, a summary of and a full listing of all projects within the six-year CIP.

This page also links to each of the department CIP pages. The department CIP pages provide an overview of each department’s planned CIP spending, summaries of major projects, and a full listing of all projects and their planned spending by year.

DEPARTMENT & PROGRAM BUDGETS

Department Budget Pages: Each department has a landing page showing their 2025 Approved Budget. Within those pages is the department’s total 2025 approved appropriations, staffing count, department overview, programs overviews, program outcomes and measures, and links to each of their program budgets within the overview sections.

Program Budget Pages: Each department program has a page showing a program overview, the connected SER goal, summary of enhancements or realignments if applicable, and the 2025 approved appropriation.

APPENDIX

Budget Policies: An inventory of the city’s financial and management policies.

Budget Terms: A glossary a budget terms found throughout the online budget book.

Codified Fees, Rates & Charges: A listing by department of what the city charges in 2024, the 2025 approved fees, and the annual percentage change of the fees.

Debt Service: A summary and detailed listing of the city’s current Debt Service.

Fund Definitions & Fund Financials: A glossary of the city’s 41 funds containing links to the updated 2025-2030 fund financials.