Forsyth County Pulse FY2026

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Forsyth County, Georgia's adopted FY2026 budget — $674,047,214 across all funds, including a $232,768,000 General Fund — from the county's published FY2026 Adopted Budget, plus audited FY2024 figures from its Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. Every figure below is cited to those documents.

FY2026 at a glance

Total adopted budget — all funds
$674,047,214
Adopted · FY2026 (calendar year)
General Fund adopted budget
$232,768,000
Adopted · FY2026 — balanced, revenues = expenditures
General Fund fund balance
$113,118,441
At December 31, 2024 · FY2024 ACFR (of which $110,625,152 unassigned)
Total governmental fund balances
$404,483,415
All governmental funds, at December 31, 2024 · FY2024
Bonds payable outstanding
$352,723,783
At December 31, 2024 · FY2024 — carrying value incl. premiums; breakdown in the debt section below
County population
280,096
2024, as reported in the ACFR's demographic schedule · FY2024

Source: Forsyth County FY2026 Adopted Budget — FY 2026 Adopted Budget Summary (p. 4); and Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Forsyth County, Georgia, for the year ended December 31, 2024 — Balance Sheet, Governmental Funds (p. 21); Note 8, Long-Term Debt (pp. 53–54); Demographic and Economic Statistics, Table 15 (p. 123). Both documents are the county's filings on the University of Georgia's TED portal.

Where the money goes — FY2026 General Fund

Sheriff's Office $75,456,63832.4%
Parks & Recreation $16,967,1387.3%
Non-Departmental $12,876,6575.5%

A non-departmental line in the budget's Other Financing Services category, alongside Contingency ($4,224,810) and Retiree Benefits ($2,950,000).

Library $10,816,8914.6%
Public Facilities $9,998,7464.3%
Roads & Bridges $9,349,6384.0%
Info Systems & Technology $7,613,8033.3%
Tax Commissioner's Office $5,797,9852.5%
Planning & Community Development $5,236,6952.2%
Tax Assessor $4,917,6792.1%
All other departments (43) $73,736,13031.7%
Total General Fund · FY2026 adopted $232,768,000100.0%

Source: Department amounts are the "2026 Adopted Budget" column of the FY 2026 Adopted Budget Summary's General Fund detail; the ten largest rows are shown individually and the remaining 43 combined. Shares are computed from the document's own figures and may not sum to 100.0% due to rounding.

Bonds payable — December 31, 2024

Water & Sewerage revenue bonds $232,901,106

Business-type activities · principal $222,350,000 + unamortized premiums $10,551,106 · FY2024

General obligation bonds $119,822,677

Governmental activities · principal $114,460,000 + unamortized premiums $5,362,677 · FY2024

Total bonds payable (carrying value) $352,723,783

Source: Bonds at carrying value (principal plus unamortized premiums); principal alone is $336,810,000, and the ACFR's MD&A rounds the carrying total to "$352.7 million." Not included above: Certificates of Participation ($7,777,000), a note payable from direct borrowings ($18,581,148, business-type), and lease liabilities ($821,640 combined). The ACFR's Note 8 reports total long-term liabilities of $450,252,292 across governmental and business-type activities, which adds OPEB, compensated absences, claims and the items above to the bonds; those are not all debt and are not in the total. Source: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Note 8 (pp. 53–54) and MD&A.

About these figures

The budget figures are the adopted FY2026 amounts from the county's FY2026 Adopted Budget (Forsyth County budgets on the calendar year: January 1 – December 31, 2026). All-funds adopted total by fund: General Fund $232,768,000; Enterprise Funds $139,001,260; Special Revenue Funds $127,924,483; Capital Funds $86,138,421; Internal Service Funds $55,270,793; Debt Service Funds $32,944,257 — summing exactly to $674,047,214.

Fund balance, debt, and population figures are audited FY2024 results from the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2024.

This is an unofficial demonstration dashboard from Peach State Pulse. It is not published by, or affiliated with, Forsyth County government.