Understanding Beaverton's Budget | Thrive Information Commons

General Fund department spending$93.6MFY2024-25 preliminary actual

Departments in current selector14General Fund published departments / lines with recovered data

External revenue shown$83.7MFY2024-25 preliminary actual; excludes other financing

Detailed revenue lines11plus internal financing as an optional line

Spending explorer

Choose a department, then follow it across time.

The department dropdown contains every General Fund department or department-level line currently recovered for FY2024-25. The table remains sortable so you can also compare the whole set at once.

Department trend

FY20-21 actualFY21-22 actualFY22-23 estimateFY23-24 actualFY24-25 preliminary actual

Programs underneath

Department	Status / continuity	Selected-year amount	Latest YoY	FY24-25 budget use

Primary sources: City of Beaverton FY2023-24 adopted budget system report and FY2024-25 Q4 financial report. Click a table row or use the dropdown to change the trend focus.

Revenue explorer

Start with a revenue type, then open the individual sources.

The cards below group the city's FY2024-25 reported General Fund revenue lines into resident-friendly categories. They do not replace the City's source names: those remain visible in the detailed table.

City-reported source	Public character	FY2024-25	FY2023-24	Change	Context

Selected revenue type

Longer revenue trend

Choose a source or City revenue class

How the categories differ

Recurring Property tax, ROW/franchise receipts and many service charges.

Cyclical Development/permitting receipts move with development activity.

Grant-sensitive Intergovernmental revenue may contain temporary grants.

Policy-sensitive Fine revenue changes with enforcement policy and programs.

Market-sensitive Investment income changes with rates and balances.

Internal Other financing is not treated as outside revenue.

FY2024-25 source-level values and FY2023-24 comparisons come from Beaverton's Q4 financial report. Longer class histories come from the FY2023-24 adopted budget system report.

Change over time

What moved most between FY2023-24 and FY2024-25?

Department changes

Revenue-source changes

Department over five periods

Property tax over five periods

Budget → results

Pair dollars with intent, activity and measurable operating context.

This layer stays cautious: measures help describe service activity, but they do not prove that one year's spending caused a result.

Police example

1 · Intent

FY2024-25 identifies a comprehensive Community Policing Engagement Strategy.

City-stated intent

2 · Budget

Police preliminary FY2024-25 spending was $45.7M, including Emergency Management after its move.

Financial fact

3 · Activity

Police reported restructuring service delivery and increasing Bike Team coverage.

City-reported activity

4 · Measures

Response time, patrol arrests and citations provide operating context.

Context only

5.9 minCalls-for-service response timeFY2023

3,743Patrol arrestsFY2023

19,720Intersection speed citationsFY2023

Sources, statuses & methods

FY2023-24 adopted budget system report: department/program histories and General Fund revenue classes. Open source ↗

FY2024-25 Q4 financial report: preliminary actual departments, detailed revenue lines, revised budget use and FY2023-24 comparisons. Open source ↗

Status rule: actual, preliminary actual, estimate and adopted values are never silently treated as identical observation types.

Follow the money across departments, revenue sources and years.