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• City of Beaumont FY 2024–25 Adopted Budget The city's full adopted budget for fiscal year 2024–25. Source for General Fund revenue breakdown including CFD transfers, downtown revitalization spending, development fee data, and infrastructure allocations.
• City of Beaumont 2025–2027 Strategic Plan The city's adopted strategic plan setting priorities and goals for the current planning period. Source for household growth projections and the status of community engagement as a strategic priority.
• Beaumont Downtown Revitalization Plan — Elevate 2050 (GHD Engineering, September 2024) The 226-page downtown revitalization plan commissioned by the city and completed in September 2024. Source for buildout projections, business activation strategy, tenant improvement recommendations, and parking analysis.
• City of Beaumont SB 165 Annual Report, FY 2024–25 (Spicer Consulting Group) State-mandated annual accountability report covering all 35 active CFD districts, prepared by Spicer Consulting Group. Shows special taxes levied, collected, and expended for each district. Source for the $22.3M figure: total special taxes levied across all CFD districts in FY2024–25 was $22,323,959. This is the amount that appears on homeowners' property tax bills — it includes both bond debt service and per-district administrative expenses. The underlying bond debt service alone (principal and interest payments) is approximately $19.3M per year, as calculated from the Spicer bond debt schedules.
• City Council Minutes, March 3, 2026 Official minutes of the March 3, 2026 regular council meeting. Documents the consent calendar approval of three new Mello-Roos CFD taxes (Items G.3–G.5), the Oak Valley Village infrastructure agreement (Item G.9), and the 49-home subdivision public hearing (Item I.3, opened 6:42 p.m., closed 6:43 p.m., no public comment).
• City Council Minutes, November 18, 2025 Official minutes of the November 18, 2025 regular council meeting. Source for the approval of the Pennsylvania Avenue Grade Separation Project environmental clearances (Item G.4), the Cooperative Agreement with RCTC to manage the project (Item J.3), and the Second Amendment to the FY 2026–2030 Capital Improvement Plan (Item I.1), which transferred $1.6 million from the Downtown Revitalization Feasibility Study to the Pennsylvania Avenue Grade Separation account.
• Staff Report PLAN2025-0177 — Development Agreement, Beaumont Regency AVG LLC (June 17, 2025) Staff report to City Council for the Target/Sprouts shopping center at Oak Valley Parkway. Source for project size (279,941 sq ft, 28.95 acres), anchor tenants, job projections (450 Phase 1, 100 Phase 2), and the city's $6 million public reimbursement commitment for road improvements.
• National Community Survey (NCS), City of Beaumont, 2020 Community perception survey commissioned by the city. Source for the finding that only 23% of residents rated overall confidence in city government as excellent or good — below the national benchmark.
• ABC7 Eyewitness News — "7 former Beaumont city officials charged in $43M corruption case" (May 18, 2016) News coverage of the Beaumont public corruption case. Seven former officials — including the city manager, finance director, and police chief — were charged with embezzling nearly $43 million in public funds. Charges included embezzlement, misappropriation, conspiracy, and conflict of interest. Multiple officials were subsequently convicted and sentenced to prison.

The Beaumont CFD Annual Reports (Spicer Consulting Group, FY 2024–25) and the Strategic Plan Performance Dashboard (Envisio) are referenced on this site but are not filed here directly. CFD Annual Reports are available on the city website at beaumontca.gov. The Envisio performance dashboard is publicly accessible through the city's website.