Current budget figure
$138.9M
Latest parsed fiscal year
Promoted from linked city budget documents in GovMatrix storage.
City overview
Aliso Viejo
Budget, score drivers, procurement context, and source documents in one place.
Peer group: small CA municipalitiesComparison quality: StrongModel: score_v2
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Budget per resident
$2,692
Based on the current budget figure
Top vendor share
16.8%
Share of tracked payments tied to the largest vendors
Jurisdiction score
66
/100
Watchlist
Confidence: Limited
Top-level judgment
Mixed fundamentals with enough outlier signals to justify active public scrutiny.
GovMatrix compares Aliso Viejo against small CA municipalities and compresses the displayed score when source confidence is lower.
Confidence adjustment
Raw model score: 76.4
Limited source coverage means the score is heavily compressed toward neutral and should be treated as directional.
Main reasons
Some evidence is still low-confidence
0 source documents still need review, which limits precision.
Budget growth remains near peer range
5.0% year-over-year growth is not a major outlier within the peer set.
Financial Stability
71
/100
Aliso Viejo shows stable reserves, with the adopted budget changing 5.0% year over year.
Spending Efficiency
95
/100
Administrative overhead is 18.6%, and consulting spend is moving faster than staffing in the current model.
Transparency
31
/100
0 of 1 source documents are parsed cleanly enough to use directly in the dataset.
Vendor Risk
94
/100
The largest vendors account for 16.8% of tracked payments, and 0 no-bid contracts show up in the current records.
Trend / Anomaly
82
/100
Technology Programs is the biggest growth area, up 11.4% from the prior year.
Public Burden
83
/100
The current adopted budget works out to about $2,692 per resident.
Provenance
Every conclusion should be traceable
Source coverage
0 documents
0 parsed, 0 OCR-only, 0 review-needed
Last updated 2026-03-16
Evidence links
1 findings
Findings stay tied to source documents or parsed budget lines.
Limited source coverage means the score is heavily compressed toward neutral and should be treated as directional.
This view is aggregated from state-level records and does not have direct document links of its own.
Resident brief
What this budget says
Source-backed summary
Quick read
Mixed fundamentals with enough outlier signals to justify active public scrutiny.
GovMatrix compares Aliso Viejo against small CA municipalities and compresses the displayed score when source confidence is lower.
What stands out
Peer group: small CA municipalities
Benchmarked against 6 nearest jurisdictions using population, geography, and source coverage.
Reserve trend: Stable
Reserve direction is used as the durability proxy in the current financial stability model.
Budget-to-actual variance: 5.9%
Higher variance can indicate planning drift or year-end pressure.
Composite scores
What needs follow-up
What reserve policy is the city targeting, and why did reserves not improve this year?
mediumReserve direction is one of the clearest signals residents can ask about in open session.
Which categories drove the biggest gap between plan and actual spending?
mediumBudget-to-actual drift is where broad totals turn into specific management decisions.
Why does this city spend differently from its nearest peers on administration and contracted work?
mediumA peer comparison forces officials to explain whether the difference is structural or discretionary.
Vendor and procurement pressure
West Coast Fleet Services LLC accounts for the largest share of tracked payments.
Top vendor share: 16.8%
West Coast Fleet Services LLC
59.7% of top-vendor tracked spend • 1 contracts
$2,531,500
Regional Utility Maintenance
40.3% of top-vendor tracked spend • 1 contracts
$1,708,000
What deserves a closer look
Start with the questions, then review the signals behind them.
What reserve policy is the city targeting, and why did reserves not improve this year?
Reserve direction is one of the clearest signals residents can ask about in open session.
Which categories drove the biggest gap between plan and actual spending?
Budget-to-actual drift is where broad totals turn into specific management decisions.
Why does this city spend differently from its nearest peers on administration and contracted work?
A peer comparison forces officials to explain whether the difference is structural or discretionary.
Trend context
Technology Programs increased 11.4%, while One-time Capital Projects moved -3.9%.
Budget allocation with context
Toggle between share of budget, per-resident impact, and year-over-year change.
Extracted mix
$0.0B
Tracked category total
Largest visible bucket
Technology
41.1% of total
Technology
$1,743,000
41.1% of total
Infrastructure
$1,036,000
24.4% of total
Consulting
$788,500
18.6% of total
Operations
$672,000
15.9% of total
Key normalized metrics
Per-resident and coverage-aware framing matters more than raw totals.
Tracked spend per resident
$82
Coverage-adjusted lens
Budget growth
5.0%
Year-over-year change in the latest comparable budget
Coverage confidence
Limited
0 parsed, 0 OCR-only, 0 review-needed
Peer view
Compare with similar states
Population and evidence depth shape this peer group so the comparison stays useful.
Placentia55/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 41.2%
Vendor: 28.0%
Budget: 3.2%
Cypress65/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 24.7%
Vendor: 19.6%
Budget: 5.9%
San Clemente66/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 16.0%
Vendor: 14.0%
Budget: 4.1%
Laguna Niguel62/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 24.7%
Vendor: 25.2%
Budget: 6.8%
Westminster66/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 24.7%
Vendor: 14.0%
Budget: 3.2%
Newport Beach66/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 0.0%
Vendor: 29.6%
Budget: 6.6%