June 3, 2025
Finance Department
DATE: June 3, 2025
TO: Mayor Martinez and Members of the City Council
FROM:
Andrea Miller, Director of Finance
Mubeen Qader, Deputy Director of Finance
Antonio Banuelos, Accounting Manager
Subject:
Setting Tax Rate for Tax Override Pension Fund
FINANCIAL IMPACT: The tax levy on the taxable and personal property located within the Taxing Districts is expected to yield $29.5
million to the City of Richmond’s Pension Tax Override
Fund. The tax rate is unchanged from the prior year.
The revenue is tied to the changes in Assessed
Valuations for Richmond properties.
PREVIOUS COUNCIL
ACTION:
None.
STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
The proposed ordinance sets the tax rate for the Pension Tax Override for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 at 0.14 percent, which is unchanged from the prior fiscal year.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
ADOPT an ordinance (second reading) setting the tax
rate for the Pension Tax Override for Fiscal Year 2025- 2026 at 0.14 percent – Finance Department (Andrea
Miller/Mubeen Qader/Antonio Banuelos 510-620-6741).
AGENDA
REPORT
June 3, 2025
DISCUSSION:
The proposed ordinance is pursuant to Section 13.16.010 of the Municipal Code of the City of Richmond, which requires the City Council to determine and annually fix the rate for each Taxing District of the City.
The tax rate for the Pension Tax Override upon all taxable real and personal property assessed in the City of Richmond, County of Contra Costa, State of California, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, is determined and should be set at 0.14 percent. This determined rate is unchanged from prior years and is consistent with bond covenants that require the City to charge a maximum rate of 0.14 percent. Proceeds in excess of the bond repayment requirements are applied to relieve the City of qualified pension costs paid by the City’s General Fund.
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
Attachment 1 – Ordinance