Current budget figure
$135.3M
Latest parsed fiscal year
Promoted from linked city budget documents in GovMatrix storage.
City overview
San Clemente
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
$2,108
Based on the current budget figure
Top vendor share
14.0%
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 San Clemente against small CA municipalities and compresses the displayed score when source confidence is lower.
Confidence adjustment
Raw model score: 76.1
Limited source coverage means the score is heavily compressed toward neutral and should be treated as directional.
Main reasons
Reserves are trending upward
San Clemente shows an improving reserve direction versus recent years.
Some evidence is still low-confidence
0 source documents still need review, which limits precision.
Budget growth remains near peer range
4.1% year-over-year growth is not a major outlier within the peer set.
Financial Stability
79
/100
San Clemente shows improving reserves, with the adopted budget changing 4.1% year over year.
Spending Efficiency
94
/100
Administrative overhead is 16.0%, 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
78
/100
The largest vendors account for 14.0% of tracked payments, and 1 no-bid contracts show up in the current records.
Trend / Anomaly
85
/100
Community Services is the biggest growth area, up 9.7% from the prior year.
Public Burden
91
/100
The current adopted budget works out to about $2,107 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 San Clemente 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: Improving
Reserve direction is used as the durability proxy in the current financial stability model.
Budget-to-actual variance: 4.8%
Higher variance can indicate planning drift or year-end pressure.
Composite scores
What needs follow-up
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
Civic Advisory Partners accounts for the largest share of tracked payments.
Top vendor share: 14.0%
Civic Advisory Partners
59.3% of top-vendor tracked spend • 1 contracts
$2,135,000
Harbor Data Systems
40.7% of top-vendor tracked spend • 1 contracts
$1,464,000
What deserves a closer look
Start with the questions, then review the signals behind them.
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.
Community Services: San Clemente contract milestone payment
Finance: San Clemente final services invoice
Trend context
Community Services increased 9.7%, while One-time Capital Projects moved -2.5%.
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
Operations
40.8% of total
Operations
$1,470,000
40.8% of total
Technology
$888,000
24.7% of total
Infrastructure
$665,000
18.5% of total
Consulting
$576,000
16.0% of total
Key normalized metrics
Per-resident and coverage-aware framing matters more than raw totals.
Tracked spend per resident
$56
Coverage-adjusted lens
Budget growth
4.1%
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.
Laguna Niguel62/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 24.7%
Vendor: 25.2%
Budget: 6.8%
Placentia55/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 41.2%
Vendor: 28.0%
Budget: 3.2%
Aliso Viejo66/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 18.6%
Vendor: 16.8%
Budget: 5.0%
Cypress65/100
Status: Watchlist
Admin: 24.7%
Vendor: 19.6%
Budget: 5.9%
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%