How Roseville is run
Who runs Roseville, what it costs, and where your money goes
The city manager, council pay, the budget, your property tax bill and who provides each service, from Roseville's own public documents. Every number links to its source and says which year it describes. Checked Oct 10, 2026.
Who runs Roseville
A city manager appointed by the council runs the city day to day as its chief executive and oversees all departments. The council of five, elected by district, sets policy, passes local laws and adopts the budget.
What they are paid
- $1,500 a month vehicle and business expense allowance (raised from $700 in February 2026)
- City pays 5% of earnings into deferred compensation
- Five-year contract that runs to May 17, 2028
- No medical, dental, vision or city-matched deferred compensation benefits
- May be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in city service
Roseville city staff
1,433 full-time-equivalent positions, including Environmental Utilities (water, wastewater, trash) 299, Police 240, Electric utility 201, Fire 131. FY2026-27. Authorized full-time equivalent positions, a net increase of 14 from the prior year. About a third work in the city's electric and environmental utilities. City of Roseville · Jun 17, 2026
The city posts salary schedules for every employee group and links to the State Controller's pay database. We did not find a city list of pay by employee. Named pay here is only for elected officials and the city manager. We name pay only for elected officials and the city manager.
Is Roseville in the red?
Cities must pass a balanced budget, so "profit" and "deficit" mean something different here. The useful questions: does the city's everyday money (the general fund) cover its everyday costs, how much does it keep in savings compared with its own target, and how big are its pension and debt bills.
Savings
Unassigned general fund balance: $46M (2025-06-30). City of Roseville · Dec 16, 2025
Why we skip the "budgeted deficit": many cities plan to dip into savings, then spend less than planned. The audited result tells you what really happened.
Where the money comes from and goes
The general fund only: the city's everyday money for FY2026-27.
Comes from
- Property taxes$85.2M · 33%
- Sales tax (Bradley-Burns)$76.1M · 29%
- Measure B sales tax$32.5M · 13%
- Charges for services$17.9M · 7%
- Transfers in from other city funds$16.1M · 6%
- Electric utility in-lieu franchise fee$10.1M · 4%
- Hotel tax$7.2M · 3%
- Other (permits, interest and rent, business license and property transfer taxes, public safety sales tax, grants, fines)$13.2M · 5%
Goes to (FY2026-27)
- Police$76.6M · 30%
- Fire$56.7M · 22%
- Parks, recreation and libraries$45.1M · 17%
- Other (retiree health, annexation tax-sharing payments to Placer County)$24.4M · 9%
- Administration (council, manager, communications, attorney, finance, HR, clerk, economic development)$17.7M · 7%
- Development services$14.2M · 5%
- Public works$13M · 5%
- Transfers out to other funds$10.2M · 4%
Your property tax bill: who gets it
Most of the bill is the 1% general levy, which the county splits among local agencies; the city has no separate tax rate of its own. The rest repays voter-approved school and college bonds. Homes in other school districts inside the city pay different bond rates.
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of each property-tax dollar goes to the city of Roseville
- 1% general levy (shared by Placer County, the city, schools and special districts)1 · 97%
- Roseville Joint Union High School District bonds0.015916 · 2%
- Roseville City School District bonds0.008669 · <1%
- Sierra College bonds0.005316 · <1%
- Total (% of assessed value)1.029901
FY2025-26 rates for a home in Roseville in the Roseville City elementary and Roseville high school districts (Placer County). Placer County · Sep 23, 2025
See what a Roseville house pays, line by line →Who provides your services
Not everything in Roseville is run by the city. Who provides a service decides whose budget pays for it and whose election decides it.
- PoliceThe cityRoseville Police DepartmentCity of Roseville · Dec 16, 2025
- FireThe cityRoseville Fire Department (9 stations)City of Roseville · Jun 17, 2026
- Emergency medical responseThe cityRoseville Fire DepartmentCity of Roseville · Jun 17, 2026
- 911 dispatchThe cityRoseville Police Department Communications unitCity of Roseville · Jun 17, 2026
- WaterThe cityCity of Roseville Environmental UtilitiesCity of Roseville · Dec 16, 2025
- SewerThe cityCity of Roseville Environmental UtilitiesCity of Roseville · Dec 16, 2025
- Parks and recreationThe cityCity of Roseville Parks, Recreation & LibrariesCity of Roseville · Dec 16, 2025
- LibrariesThe cityCity of Roseville (3 libraries)City of Roseville · Jun 17, 2026
- City streetsThe cityCity of Roseville Public WorksCity of Roseville · Dec 16, 2025
- Animal shelterContractorPlacer County SPCACity of Roseville · Jun 17, 2026
Compared with similar cities
The cities in this state closest in population that we cover. Read it for scale, not as a ranking: cities provide different services.
| Per city | HaywardCA | SunnyvaleCA | RosevilleCA | PalmdaleCA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residents | 161,557 | 161,884 | 165,455 | 166,118 |
| Top administrator's base pay | $393,000 | $414,040 | $393,599 | $370,412 |
| Council member pay | $42,456 | $38,144 | $7,200 | $18,000 |
| General fund per resident | $1,542 | $1,872 | $1,559 | $766 |
| Debt per resident | $486 | $2,514 | $1,541 | $527 |
| Unfunded pension per resident | $3,559 | $2,587 | $2,770 | $403 |
| City staff per 1,000 residents | 5.9 | 5.9 | 8.7 | 2.0 |
Figures as shown in each city's section, divided by its population. Years differ by state, and pension figures are measured differently in each state (each city page says how).
What Roseville publishes
What a resident can find online today. A "no" is something you can ask the council to publish.
- Yes: Adopted budget posted online City of Roseville
- Yes: City manager's contract findable online City of Roseville · Feb 18, 2026
- Yes: Council votes recorded member by member onlineCouncil minutes list each member's yes and no votes by name, for example the 4-1 vote on Feb. 18, 2026 to place Measure A on the ballot. City of Roseville · Feb 18, 2026
- Yes: Meeting videos and minutes online City of Roseville
- Yes: Council pay stated in a public documentThe council page states $600 a month ($7,200 a year) plus $50 a month for the mayor, set by the city charter. City of Roseville
- Partly: Employee pay published City of Roseville
Questions to ask your council
- Measure A on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot would raise council pay from the $600 a month set in 2000. If it passes, where in the budget will the added cost come from?
The fiscal year starts July 1. The city manager submits the proposed budget in mid-May (May 15, 2026 this year), the council holds a public budget workshop, and it adopts the budget by ordinance in June with at least three votes. The FY2026-27 budget was adopted June 17, 2026. See who is running for council
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