City Budget

The City of Arvada utilizes long range planning for each of the City's major operating funds. Specifically, the City prepares a two-year budget based on a five-year financial model. This method of budgeting is used to determine if future impacts of the current proposed budget are fiscally sound. Using this five-year model, the City is able to test the effects of current financial decisions on future year's financial conditions when approving funding requests throughout the organization.

The Arvada City Council adopted the 2005-2006 Operating and Capital Budget for the City of Arvada in October of 2004. The total for all funds budgeted for in 2007 and 2008 is $176,161,591 and $163,678,167, respectively.