City of Mesa · FY 2025-26 adopted
A $2.79B budget.
The adopted budget across every fund, as filed with the Arizona Auditor General.
$2.79B
total adopted budget, all funds
$740.5M
General Fund — police, fire, streets, parks
State-shared revenue is $209,370,025 of $469,271,691 in recurring General Fund revenue. Urban Revenue Sharing — 18% of the state income tax on a two-year lag — is the largest single piece and, at roughly $108.8M, the biggest URS distribution in Arizona. See the fiscal-trajectory tool for what a state income-tax change does to it.
Schedule B prints N/A for the primary levy: Mesa is the largest U.S. city that levies no operating property tax. It does levy a secondary tax ($44,337,000, rate 0.8582) — but that is restricted to bond debt service, not operations. So sales tax and state-shared revenue carry the load property tax carries elsewhere, with no local tax to steady the base.
Police ($342.2M) and Fire & Medical ($174.0M) across all funds are Mesa's two largest departments — together the bulk of the budget. Both figures are the FY2025-26 Schedule F department totals.
The core question
Does City of Mesa's capital-vs-benefits spending fit its direction and its tax strategy — and where is it headed?
Arizona Auditor General Schedules A–G for FY 2025-26 (adopted). Schedule C's General Fund revenues re-add exactly to the printed $469,781,252 total. Two things read differently here than for towns that itemise them: Mesa reports state-shared revenue as a single aggregate line, and it levies no primary (operating) property tax. See the source documents.