Deer Park spent $66,389,969 running itself in FY2025 — and public safety alone was $20.8 million of it.
This is where the money went, by function, biggest first. The first column is what each service cost to run. The second is what it cost after the fees, grants and contributions that service collected for itself — the part the city's own taxes had to cover. Every figure is a line on one page of the city's audited annual report, and they sum to the total.
Where it goes
What did this town actually spend, and on what?
Deer Park's governmental activities cost $66,389,969source addedFY2025 ACFR PDF p.118-119 / printed p.111-112 to run in FY2025. Here is that figure decomposed the way the revenue page decomposes the money coming in — every function, biggest first, straight off the audited Statement of Activities.
| Function | Cost to run | Net, after what it collected |
|---|---|---|
| Public safety | $20,835,762ACFR PDF p.27 | −$15,998,123ACFR PDF p.27 |
| Public works | $14,392,682ACFR PDF p.27 | −$10,142,982ACFR PDF p.27 |
| General government | $13,095,703ACFR PDF p.27 | −$11,414,917ACFR PDF p.27 |
| Community development | $12,158,165ACFR PDF p.27 | −$8,360,265ACFR PDF p.27 |
| Interest on long-term debt | $3,960,660FY2025 ACFR PDF p.118-119 / printed p.111-112 | −$3,960,660ACFR PDF p.27 |
| Parks and recreation | $1,946,997ACFR PDF p.27 | +$83,412ACFR PDF p.27 |
the six functions sum to the total, exactlycomputed: sum of the six function expenses = dp.cover.exp.total.fy2025. Program revenue of $16,596,434ACFR PDF p.27 — fees, operating grants and capital contributions — offsets part of the gross, leaving −$15,998,123ACFR PDF p.27 for public safety alone as net cost to the city's own taxes.
In plain language: the first column is what each service cost. The second is what was left after that service collected fees, grants or contributions of its own — the part the town's taxes had to cover. Public safety is the largest net cost the city carries, at −$15,998,123ACFR PDF p.27, and it is worth reading that figure next to the industrial district: the plants sit in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction, outside the city limits, and do not receive city police and fire.
Parks and recreation shows a positive net position for FY2025. That is not a standing surplus — +$83,412ACFR PDF p.27 is the result of capital grants and contributions landing against that function in this one year.
What this page is not: it is the year's spending, not what the town owes. Debt to maturity, the pension and the retiree-health promises are a different measure and live on what it owes. Keeping the flow and the stocks apart is the whole point of separating these two pages.