Gaithersburg’s elected officials and staff are working on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget. An important part of that process is public input. Please take a moment to learn about where the City’s money comes from, how it’s been spent in recent years, and add your thoughts about funding priorities for the future.

FY20 Adopted Budget: $68.3 million

Property Tax Rate: $0.262 per $100 of assessed value. (The tax rate has only increased once since 1964.)

What does Gaithersburg spend your money on?

It can be difficult to comment on where best to allocate money when you’re not exactly sure what your local government does. Maintaining City parks, streets and sidewalks – check. We do that. Providing police services. Yup. Offering after school programs and opportunities for kids to volunteer. That’s us, too. Inspecting buildings for safety. We’re on it. Hosting events like the Book Festival and Fireworks – no one does it better. We collect your recycling, too (which 93% of you say that you do, by the way, and THANK YOU for that).

Click here for a comprehensive list, or poke around on our website to get a better idea of what we do.