City of Palm Desert Changes in Fund Balances of Governmental Funds Last Ten Fiscal Years (Modified Accrual Basis of Accounting)
| Revenues: | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxes | 99,920,081 | 87,339,337 | 86,687,919 | 84,037,191 | 65,209,322 |
| Special assessments collected | 3,857,792 | 3,697,666 | 3,618,972 | 3,407,107 | 3,381,657 |
| Licenses & permits | 1,870,568 | 1,990,632 | 3,111,176 | 2,622,695 | 1,504,694 |
| Intergovernmental revenues | 8,118,989 | 11,371,128 | 6,711,363 | 12,300,071 | 20,136,679 |
| Rental income | 9,866,772 | 9,463,306 | 8,958,960 | 8,129,025 | 7,320,419 |
| Charges for services | 10,783,474 | 10,284,637 | 8,743,794 | 6,175,500 | 4,889,634 |
| Investment Earnings | 17,085,932 | 18,508,081 | 12,129,730 | (2,402,801) | 1,298,728 |
| Fines & forfeitures | 152,182 | 106,152 | 127,087 | 105,198 | 147,671 |
| Miscellaneous | 1,251,338 | 11,955,948 | 852,153 | 7,340,808 | 3,776,838 |
| Contributions from other government | - | - | - | 1,974,653 | - |
| Total Revenues | 152,907,128 | 154,716,887 | 130,941,154 | 123,689,447 | 107,665,642 |
| Expenditures: | |||||
| General government | 35,343,813 | 34,683,367 | 24,896,946 | 24,079,563 | 23,478,543 |
| Housing & redevelopment | 9,523,008 | 13,090,694 | 10,310,551 | 8,232,440 | 8,839,559 |
| Public safety | 45,392,840 | 43,449,970 | 40,660,248 | 37,322,951 | 34,035,102 |
| Parks, recreation & culture | 15,416,612 | 18,912,572 | 17,708,634 | 7,439,687 | 6,073,015 |
| Public works | 12,624,619 | 14,102,656 | 15,287,888 | 17,667,805 | 18,533,419 |
| Library | 2,934,418 | 606,561 | - | - | - |
| Capital outlay | 23,864,718 | 24,510,104 | 7,835,762 | 12,110,677 | 7,840,438 |
| Debt service: | |||||
| Principal retirement | 619,246 | 582,854 | 263,809 | 2,294,052 | 174,000 |
| Interest and fiscal charges | 111,809 | 153,203 | 135,903 | 157,462 | 184,529 |
| Total Expenditures | 145,831,083 | 150,091,981 | 117,099,741 | 109,304,637 | 99,158,605 |
| Excess(deficiency of Revenues over(under) expenditures | 7,076,045 | 4,624,906 | 13,841,413 | 14,384,810 | 8,507,037 |
| Other financing sources (uses) | |||||
| Transfers in | 29,910,322 | 15,057,580 | 26,746,473 | 11,555,402 | 10,186,341 |
| Transfers out | (33,504,265) | (15,155,662) | (27,707,762) | (11,864,512) | (11,230,751) |
| Special Item (3) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Extraordinary Gain / (Loss) (2) | - | - | - | 2,603,284 | - |
| Sale of property | - | (295,519) | (88,163) | (1,001,688) | - |
| Lease and subscription arrangements | 670,410 | 473,763 | 529,156 | - | - |
| Total Other financing sources (uses) | (2,923,533) | 80,162 | (520,296) | 1,292,486 | (1,044,410) |
| Net Change In Fund Balance | 4,152,512 | 4,705,068 | 13,321,117 | 15,677,296 | 7,462,627 |
| Debt service as a percentage of noncapital expenditures | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 2.5% | 0.4% |
| Revenues: | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
| Taxes | 59,635,918 | 67,102,185 | 61,906,859 | 59,466,545 | 56,735,503 |
| Special assessments collected | 3,481,924 | 3,948,157 | 3,445,246 | 3,318,114 | 3,296,705 |
| Licenses & permits | 1,268,965 | 1,416,829 | 1,326,049 | 1,678,709 | 2,057,843 |
| Intergovernmental revenues | 6,401,926 | 6,194,152 | 5,682,704 | 7,249,515 | 15,429,238 |
| Rental income | 7,071,648 | 6,899,916 | 6,675,632 | 6,439,458 | 5,896,480 |
| Charges for services | 5,272,577 | 5,223,285 | 2,894,821 | 2,356,363 | 2,082,843 |
| Investment Earnings | 10,311,159 | 7,166,097 | 3,626,892 | 2,086,224 | 1,837,319 |
| Fines & forfeitures | 127,801 | 273,434 | 162,370 | 135,276 | 295,269 |
| Miscellaneous | 4,741,905 | 2,892,940 | 2,886,542 | 2,594,433 | 2,317,499 |
| Contributions from other government | - | - | - | 3,550,991 | - |
| Contributions from property owners | - | - | - | - | 7,868 |
| Total Revenues | 98,313,823 | 101,116,995 | 88,607,115 | 88,875,628 | 89,956,567 |
| Expenditures: | |||||
| General government | 21,468,512 | 24,269,546 | 19,281,102 | 16,887,293 | 15,783,955 |
| Housing & redevelopment | 7,090,941 | 7,504,119 | 8,522,801 | 9,239,680 | 6,438,849 |
| Pass-through-agreement | - | - | - | - | - |
| Public safety | 37,021,952 | 36,901,283 | 36,247,656 | 34,674,418 | 33,750,347 |
| Parks, recreation & culture | 5,902,166 | 6,497,391 | 6,467,713 | 7,157,821 | 6,831,534 |
| Public works | 21,994,806 | 8,728,354 | 12,183,852 | 8,794,894 | 11,031,584 |
| Contributions to property owners | - | - | - | - | 19,584,487 |
| Capital outlay | 5,117,968 | 3,396,511 | 915,422 | 2,169,035 | 7,071,738 |
| Debt service: | |||||
| Principal retirement | 225,000 | 587,000 | 150,000 | 237,000 | 257,000 |
| Interest and fiscal charges | 210,292 | 244,050 | 260,971 | 277,814 | 296,336 |
| Total Expenditures | 99,031,637 | 88,128,254 | 84,029,517 | 79,437,955 | 101,045,830 |
| Excess(deficiency of Revenues over(under) expenditures | (717,814) | 12,988,741 | 4,577,598 | 9,437,673 | (11,089,263) |
| Other financing sources (uses) | |||||
| Transfers in | 10,702,762 | 5,319,448 | 6,613,352 | 9,406,888 | 6,030,706 |
| Transfers out | (11,377,965) | (5,736,558) | (6,313,352) | (12,218,428) | (6,075,206) |
| Special Item (3) | - | (6,000,000) | - | - | - |
| Extraordinary Gain / (Loss) (2) | - | - | - | - | 72,138,669 |
| Sale of property | - | - | - | - | 225,000 |
| Lease and subscription arrangements | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total Other financing sources (uses) | (675,203) | (6,417,110) | 300,000 | (2,811,540) | 72,319,169 |
| Net Change In Fund Balance | (1,393,017) | 6,571,631 | 4,877,598 | 6,626,133 | 61,229,906 |
| Debt service as a percentage of noncapital expenditures | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.6% |
(1) On February 1, 2012 the State of California dissolved the City of Palm Desert Redevelopment Agency as part of the Statewide dissolution of all
(1) On February 1, 2012 the State of California dissolved the City of Palm Desert Redevelopment Agency as part of the Statewide dissolution of a City Redevelopment Agencies, which in turn created the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Palm Desert. For more information on the dissolution of the RDA please see Note 16 and 17. (2) The City's Capital Properties Capital Project Fund received $65,566,963 and the Housing Asset Fund received $6,571,706 for a combined total of $72,138,669 of capital bond proceeds transferred from the Successor Agency. (3) City established an allowance for advances owed by the Successor Agency.
Source: CITY Finance Department