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Fort Collins, Colorado · City of Fort Collins CO FY2026 Adopted Budget (Ord. 186, 2025)

Fort Collins — the money trail

$843,306,077
The City of Fort Collins, Colorado — a home-rule, council-manager city of ~170,000. This is the adopted all-city-funds budget for 2026 (calendar fiscal year), $843.3 million, from the annual appropriations ordinance. Fort Collins owns its own electric, water, wastewater, stormwater, and broadband utilities, which are much of the total. Every fund figure ties to the ordinance’s own table and foots to the dollar. Click any number to see exactly where it comes from. Where the trail goes dark, it becomes a numbered issue in the docket. New here? Read our story or take the plain-words tour.
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Where it goes — $843,306,077 appropriated

▶General Fund$244,046,13729%✓ Sourced
The city’s main operating fund — police, fire, parks, planning, and administration.
▶Enterprise Funds (utilities)$335,178,73240%✓ Sourced
Fort Collins runs its own electric, water, wastewater, stormwater, and broadband utilities — self-supporting from their own rates.
▶Light & Power$189,156,72356% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Water$53,185,190✓ Sourced
▶Wastewater$35,230,444✓ Sourced
▶Broadband (Connexion)$26,190,961✓ Sourced
▶Stormwater$25,980,814✓ Sourced
▶Golf$5,434,600✓ Sourced
▶Special Revenue & Debt Service Funds$140,483,37417%✓ Sourced
Transportation, transit, natural areas, recreation, and culture — funded by dedicated taxes and fees.
▶Transportation$42,053,89730% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Transit Service$24,399,504✓ Sourced
▶Natural Areas$17,201,468✓ Sourced
▶2050 Tax (Parks/Rec/Transit)$15,225,641✓ Sourced
▶Recreation$11,412,364✓ Sourced
▶Cultural Services$8,966,220✓ Sourced
▶General Employees Retirement$6,839,500✓ Sourced
▶Capital Leasing Corp$6,259,597✓ Sourced
▶Parking$3,162,319✓ Sourced
▶Transportation Capital Expansion$2,081,697✓ Sourced
▶Museum$1,193,615✓ Sourced
▶Cemeteries$994,347✓ Sourced
▶Capital Expansion$628,819✓ Sourced
▶Perpetual Care$64,386✓ Sourced
▶Internal Service Funds$113,466,67313%✓ Sourced
Shared internal services — benefits, equipment, IT — charged back to departments.
▶Benefits$46,199,10241% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Utility Customer Svc & Admin$25,348,575✓ Sourced
▶Equipment$18,687,289✓ Sourced
▶Data & Communications$13,274,266✓ Sourced
▶Self Insurance$9,957,441✓ Sourced
▶Capital Improvement Funds$10,131,1611%✓ Sourced
City capital projects and parkland.
▶General City Capital$2,383,147✓ Sourced
▶Community Capital$375,000✓ Sourced
▶Conservation Trust$2,977,82429% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Neighborhood Parkland$4,395,19043% of fund✓ Sourced