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City-wide Budget Impacts
FY 2025 expenditures are impacted by a decrease to the city’s contribution to the Health Fund and a 2% across the board
compensation adjustment and other market pay adjustments that vary by job family effective October 2024.

Scorecard

Libraries FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2025
Key Measures Actual Actual Estimate Target
Citizen satisfaction with overall library services [annual
survey] 95% 94% 95% 95%
Visits per capita 2.3 3.8 3.5 3.8
Circulation of Digital materials 297,095 348,289 317,532 323,883
Circulation of Physical materials 1,573,006 1,526,011 1,850,000 1,850,000
Circulation per capita 4.7 4.76 5.5 5.5
Library materials per capita 1.5 1.4 1.8 1.8
Grant and gift funds as a percentage of total general fund
allocation 9% 6.6% 6% 6%
Volunteer service hours (increase hours by 25% = 7,000) 7,419 5,432 6,400 6,500
New Library Cards Issued (All) 9,272 13,584 15,000 15,000
Overall Library facility satisfaction rating (excellent) 72% 80% 80%
Percent of total registered borrowers with account activity
in the last 12 months 45% 41% 50% 50%
Number of registered users for the homebound library New Measure
services in FY 2023 49 100 400
Circulation of materials for homebound clients New Measure
in FY 2023 77 400 500
Overall satisfaction rating (excellent) for homebound New Measure
clients in FY 2023 86% 80% 80%
New Library Cards Issued to Children under 18 New Measure in FY 2024 1,600 1,600
Number of adult education students served New Measure in FY 2025 763
Maker Space Tech Based Program Attendance New Measure in FY 2025 340
Library App (MyLibro) usages New Measure in FY 2025 85,000

Library Expenditures

Actual Budgeted Estimated Adopted
FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2024 FY 2025

Administration $ 3,059,949 $ 2,764,472 $ 2,798,674 $ 3,098,143
Downtown Library 791,538 852,724 861,623 866,626
Branch Libraries 1,600,437 1,722,748 1,688,405 1,756,789
Library Technology 560,680 705,990 714,833 602,937
Library Collections 1,510,520 1,520,832 1,483,410 1,556,592
Library Special Projects 381,302 422,744 391,141 450,973
Library Youth Services 723,800 794,173 774,265 837,791
Library Adult Education 148,912 288,477 116,724 292,333
Library Adult Services 521,231 595,783 581,947 655,503
TOTAL $ 9,298,369 $ 9,667,943 $ 9,411,020 $ 10,117,687

FY 2025 Adopted Budget and Business Plan 174 City of Arlington, Texas