Easley planned $38.1M in FY2025–26. Here’s the shape of it.
The adopted FY2025–26 plan at a glance — four separate pots of money, each with its own rules. Tap any fund to filter the whole cockpit to that pot.
Special Revenue money (hospitality, impact fees, road fees, grants) is restricted — it can only be spent on its stated purpose. Stormwater is paid by stormwater fees; the TIF fund repays downtown redevelopment debt.
FY2024 audited ending
General Fund budget*
in the adopted plan
*Context only — compares the June 30, 2024 audited balance to a later year’s budget. Sources: FY2024 Audit, p.18; FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.6 & p.20.
Try it with your own bill
Move the slider to your annual city property tax and see what it helps pay for. Calculated live in your browser — nothing is stored or sent.
Your city property tax pays into the General Fund (police, fire, streets, parks, City Hall). The department split is illustrative prototype data; the fund totals are the adopted budget. County, school and other authorities are separate lines on your county tax bill. General Fund revenue plan: property tax $5,262,478 • sales tax $5,440,000 • other financing $13,782,289 — Source: FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.15.
Are we on plan right now?
Spending so far vs. the share of the year gone by, fund by fund. Plan totals are the adopted budget; the “spent” percentages are sample data showing how this panel reads once monthly actuals are published.
Spending running a little behind the calendar is normal early in a year, when big purchases land later. Plan: Source: FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.6. Burn %: illustrative.
Your city at work — right now
Illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstrationSix numbers that show how the plan year is going while it’s still happening (sample YTD data). Each tile drills into its full view.
Property tax is not the whole story
Property tax ($5.26M) and sales tax ($5.44M) together are under half the General Fund plan — the rest is other financing, including planned use of savings for one-time projects.
FY2025–26 Budget, p.15Open Money Coming In →$8.64M of capital in the FY2025-26 plan
The JB “Red” Owens Complex expansion ($4.75M) leads the list, plus a fire station site, Hagood Park playground and a police training facility — on a map, with stage and progress.
FY2025–26 Budget, p.7–8Open Projects →209 full-time staff
The plan adds 6 firefighters and 4 police officers. See how quickly permits, requests and repair jobs are moving against their targets.
FY2025–26 Budget, p.20Open People & Services →Where the money comes from, while the year is happening
Each source, what it can pay for, and how much has come in so far. Plan amounts are the adopted budget; “collected so far” is sample data, labeled in place.
Tap each source
Your property tax — $5,262,478 planned Budget p.15
What homeowners and businesses pay the city on property. It is the line you feel most directly — about 21% of the General Fund plan. A 3-mill increase in this budget is expected to raise about $393,000 (Budget Book, p.10). Collected so far: about 14% — property tax arrives in a lump around the county due date, so a low early number is normal. Collected %: illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstration
Sales tax — $5,440,000 planned Budget p.15
Pennies added at the register, shared back to the city. This is the General Fund’s largest single tax source in the FY2025–26 plan — slightly ahead of property tax. About 29% collected so far, close to pace. Collected %: illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstration
Other financing sources — $13,782,289 planned Budget p.15
As labeled in the budget comparison table. About $8.1M of the year’s budgeted revenue is planned use of prior-year fund balance — savings spent on purpose, mainly for one-time capital (Budget Book, p.6). That is why this line is so large this year: it is a building year, not a recurring revenue.
Hospitality & special revenue — $12,013,952 fund total Budget p.6
Visitor and development money with legal strings: hospitality taxes, impact fees, the road fee and grants. It can only be spent on its stated purposes — tourism-related and growth-related projects — never on general salaries. Hospitality is the largest piece at $8,753,000 (Budget Book, p.6).
Stormwater fees — $992,134 fund total Budget p.6
The stormwater utility fee on your bill. Walled off for drainage: pipes, ditches and flooding fixes. Collected so far: about 25%, billed evenly through the year. Collected %: illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstration
Money collected — this year vs. the plan
How much has come in so far, compared with the plan and the calendar.
Overall collections a touch ahead of the calendar, carried by sales tax; property tax lags until its due-date lump arrives. Plan totals: Source: FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.6 & p.15. Collected %: illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstration.
Where General Fund money comes from — the plan
| Property taxes | $5,262,478 |
| Sales tax | $5,440,000 |
| Other financing sources* | $13,782,289 |
| Total General Fund | $24,484,767 |
*As labeled in the budget comparison table. Source: FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.15.
Fund → department → line by line
Pick a pot of money (a fund), then a department, then see what that department’s budget is made of. Fund totals are Easley’s real adopted budget; department and line-item splits are labeled sample data. Choosing a fund here also filters the Overview burn bars and the Projects map.
Projects around town — where the money is going
Every project in the $8,644,390 capital plan, on one schematic map. Costs are the adopted budget; stage, percent complete, spending and updates are labeled sample data — the city does not publish them in the budget book. This map is a diagram to help you find projects, not a survey or GIS claim.
Illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstration Capital total $8,644,390 — Source: FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.7–8. Project pins, stages and spending below are sample data.
Projects on this map — tap a number
The list and the map filter together. Tap a project in either place to see its detail.
How to read this map
Pin number = the project’s number in the list below. Same number, same project.
Ring around a pin = how far along it is, in words:
Faded pins are filtered out by the buttons above — they are still in the plan, just not in your current view. Print this page and you print exactly this filtered view.
Capital spending so far
Of the $8,644,390 capital plan (Source: FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.7–8). Percent spent is sample data — big projects bill in stages, so capital always lags early.
Is it on time? On budget? Which pot is paying? When will it be done? Tap any pin for the plain-English update and who to contact.
Services vs. targets
How quickly the city responds when you need something. Service counts and targets are not published in the budget book or audit, so every tile below is sample data, labeled in place — it shows exactly how this view will read with live counts.
Illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstrationEasley real today: 209 full-time staff; plan adds 6 firefighters and 4 police officers. Source: FY 2025-26 Budget Book, p.20. Tiles above: illustrative prototype data — sample for demonstration.
Who does this work?
The General Fund pays for the people below. Department budgets are sample splits of the real $24,484,767 General Fund — tap one to open its full breakdown in Where It Goes. To reach a department, use the contact routes in — this prototype does not publish direct phone numbers.
The last audited year, checked line by line
FY2023–24 — the most recent completed, independently audited year (year ended June 30, 2024). Budget vs. actual, exactly as the audit reports it. No estimates, no sample data in this section.
● Audited · FY2024Budget vs. actual — General Fund (FY2023–24)
Revised budget is what the city planned after in-year amendments. Actual is what the audit found.
| Item | Revised budget | Actual | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | $18,102,362 | $18,608,214 | +$505,852 |
| Expenditures | $21,674,555 | $22,713,437 | −$1,038,882 |
| Fund balance, end of year | — | $10,323,467 | — |
What the $10.3M fund balance is made of
Not all of it is spendable tomorrow. The audit breaks it into three buckets:
| Nonspendable — prepaids | $1,892,599 |
| Assigned — future capital outlay | $921,300 |
| Unassigned — available | $7,509,568 |
| Total General Fund balance | $10,323,467 |
Combined governmental funds (General + special revenue + debt service) ended at $17,678,375. The unassigned share — about 33.1% of General Fund expenditures — is the cushion rating agencies and auditors watch most.
Spending ran ahead of revenues in FY2023–24, so the balance fell from $13,697,236 to $10,323,467 — a planned draw on savings built up in prior years, including one-time federal funds. The current-year plan continues that pattern on purpose: about $8.1M of FY2025–26 revenue is planned use of fund balance, mainly for one-time capital (Budget Book, p.6).
Fund balance trend — audited endings
General Fund balance at each June 30. Only audited endings belong on this chart, so it has two points today — the audit in hand reports the FY2023 ending ($13,697,236, the FY2024 beginning balance) and the FY2024 ending ($10,323,467).
Comment, suggest, ask
See something this dashboard should explain better? Send it to the right place. This prototype cannot take messages itself — the button below opens your email to City Hall’s public contact route, or copies your text so you can paste it into the city’s contact form.
Nothing you type here is stored or sent by this page — it stays in your browser until you choose to email it or paste it into the city’s form. City website: cityofeasley.com.
Who to contact for what
This prototype does not publish direct phone numbers or emails it cannot verify. Each route below takes you to the city’s own directory — one tap further than a printed number, and always current.
Emergencies: always 911. Non-emergency city services: start at cityofeasley.com and choose the department — the routes above mirror the department list used in Where It Goes, so the money and the contact stay connected.