A proposed budget, adopted budget, annual filing, and audit serve different purposes. Document descriptions identify what each record can tell you.
- 01Official PDF · 98 pages
2026 Municipal Budget ↗
Introduced city appropriations with 2025 comparisons. The municipal figures in the line-item explorer come from this document.
- 02Official PDF · 9 pages
2026–27 School Budget ↗
Advertised revenues and appropriations, with revised 2025–26 comparisons. Adopted April 30, 2026.
- 03Official workbook · XLSX
2026 PILOT Database & Viewer ↗
New Jersey DCA workbook, filtered to Jersey City. Uses 2025 UFB submissions. Agreement status is evaluated at July 21, 2026.
- 0401
Were the principal statements fairly presented? ↗
Yes, under New Jersey’s required regulatory basis. The Current, Grant, Trust, and General Capital funds received unmodified opinions.
- 0502
Did auditors find control failures? ↗
Yes. The report lists 17 findings, including material weaknesses in financial closing and fixed-asset reporting.
- 0603
Was every statement covered by an opinion? ↗
No. Auditors disclaimed an opinion on fixed assets because the 2025 inventory was not updated and could not be audited.
- 07290 pages · Independent audit
2025 Annual Audit ↗
Opinions, audited regulatory-basis statements, notes, findings, samples, and recommendations.
- 0823 pages · Management response
2026 Corrective Action Plan ↗
Planned remedies, target dates, responsible officials, and management-reported completion status. Unaudited.
- 0919 pages · Statutory debt filing
2025 Annual Debt Statement ↗
Gross debt, statutory deductions, net debt, equalized valuation, guarantees, notes, and excluded commitments.
- 10157 pages · Annual City filing
2025 Annual Financial Statement ↗
Trial balances, budget results, fund balance, capital accounts, grants, and supporting schedules. Not an audit opinion.
For formulas, rounding rules, and dataset limits, read the methodology. School leadership reporting has its own dated source archive.