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Augusta-Richmond County PulseFY2026

Unofficial demonstration dashboard

The City of Augusta and Richmond County operate as a single consolidated government. The budget figures below are FY2026 adopted, from the Augusta, Georgia Adopted Budget, Fiscal Year 2026 — a document titled “Preliminary Version” whose text states it is the 2026 budget as adopted by the Augusta Commission on December 16, 2025. The financial figures are FY2024 audited, from the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024. Every figure is cited to one of those two documents.

Headline figures

Adopted total budget, all funds

$1,331,422,970

FY2026 ADOPTED · Budget Summary by Fund, Section 1

Adopted General Fund (Fund 101)

$125,940,980

FY2026 ADOPTED · Total General Fund/Law Enforcement is $214,239,020

General Fund fund balance

$44,797,372

At December 31, 2024 · FY2024 AUDITED · Balance Sheet, Governmental Funds

Total governmental fund balances

$630,629,081

At December 31, 2024 · FY2024 AUDITED

Total long-term liabilities, primary government

$1,104,591,940

At December 31, 2024 · FY2024 AUDITED · Governmental $561,392,686 + business-type $543,199,254

Population

205,414

2024, from the FY2024 ACFR demographic schedule · FY2024 AUDITED

Sources: Augusta, Georgia Adopted Budget, Fiscal Year 2026 (FY2026 adopted figures) and Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024 (FY2024 audited figures).

Where the General Fund goes — FY2026 adopted, by function

General Governmental $38,815,430
Judicial $29,664,960
Operating Transfers Out $17,741,210
Culture-Recreation $15,562,200
Public Safety $12,725,790

Law Enforcement ($88,298,040) and Fire Protection ($41,513,780) are budgeted in separate funds.

Public Works $8,981,010
All other $2,450,380

Housing & Development $1,955,250 + Health and Welfare $1,044,190 + net Non-Departmental −$549,060.

General Fund (Fund 101) total $125,940,980

General Fund (Fund 101) expenditures by function, Section 3 of the budget. The rows sum exactly to the Fund 101 total shown in both Section 1 and Section 3 of the budget document. Source: Augusta, Georgia Adopted Budget, Fiscal Year 2026.

Long-term liabilities — December 31, 2024

Bonds payableRevenue bonds $46,277,000 + general obligation bonds $265,000,000 + premiums $2,184,625 $313,461,625
OPEB liability $152,600,053
Net pension liability $48,862,327
Financed purchases $19,940,000
Certificates of Participation $16,888,000
Compensated absences $7,677,413
Claims and judgments $1,963,268
Governmental activities $561,392,686
Business-type activitiesIncludes bonds payable of $458,848,908 $543,199,254
Primary government total $1,104,591,940

Long-term liabilities at December 31, 2024: governmental activities itemized above, plus business-type activities. Source: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024 — Note 7.

About these figures

The FY2026 ADOPTED figures come from the Augusta, Georgia Adopted Budget, Preliminary Version, Fiscal Year 2026. The document is titled “Preliminary Version” and states that it is the 2026 budget as adopted by the Augusta Commission on December 16, 2025; it is presented exactly that way here — its status is neither upgraded nor downgraded.

The FY2024 AUDITED figures come from the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024: fund balances and long-term liabilities are as of December 31, 2024, and population 205,414 is the ACFR demographic schedule’s 2024 figure. The two fiscal years are presented separately and are never combined into one total.

This is an unofficial demonstration dashboard from Peach State Pulse. It is not published by, or affiliated with, the Augusta-Richmond County government.

Source documents: Augusta, Georgia Adopted Budget, Preliminary Version, Fiscal Year 2026 and Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024.