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Fiscal Year 2024-25 Adopted Budget Overview

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Learn more about how Portland's FY 2024-25 Adopted Budget supports various services in our community.

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City Expenses

  • In FY 2024-25, the vast majority of City expenses are in Public Works, which includes the Water Bureau, the Bureau of Environmental Services and the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
  • A full 90% of the funds that make up the City's approximately $8 billion budget are by law, restricted to specific uses. These include funds received from the federal government and dollars earmarked for utilities, transportation and debt repayment.

FY 2024-25 Expenses Across All Funds by Service Area

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City Revenues

City Revenues come from a variety of different sources.
  • Nearly 28% of the City's Revenue is from what's called the Beginning Fund Balance. This is money that wasn't spent in the previous fiscal year for a variety of reasons.
  • Not all revenues in the City's $8 billion budget are collected from the public. Internal revenues are dollars received between bureaus for the exchange of goods or services for payment such as technology, fleet and risk management. In Portland, 22% of revenues are internal.
  • More than 13% of revenues came from debt proceeds, loans and interest.
  • Property and business license taxes, make up only 12% of the City's budgeted revenue collection.

FY 2024-25 City of Portland Revenues

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The General Fund

  • The General Fund is the City's most flexible resource but only makes up about 10% of the total budget. 
  • We call these flexible funds "discretionary resources".
  • Most of the money in the General Fund comes from property and business licensing taxes. 
  • The City uses the General Fund to pay for everything that has not already been covered by restricted funds.
About ninety percent of the total revenue is restricted, while ten percent is unrestricted revenue in the General Fund.

General Fund Expenses

  • In FY 2024-25, City Council allocated the majority of the General Fund to Public Safety bureaus. 
  • The Portland Police Bureau and Portland Fire & Rescue received the largest amounts of the City's most flexible dollars
  • Portland Parks & Recreation, which is the vast majority of the Vibrant Communities Service Area, received the second largest amount of funding. 
  • Community and Economic Development which includes the Portland Housing Bureau and the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability received the third largest. 

FY 2024-25 General Fund Discretionary Allocated Expenses

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Learn more about the City of Portland FY 2024-45 Budget at our Budget 101 Pages

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