Iam proud to announce that I handed in my Tentative Budget for 2026 to Town Clerk Linda Zappala on September 30th, and it is officially UNDER the tax cap!

The Tentative Budget is crafted by the Budget Officer (me) in consultation with the Accounting Department and using budget request info from all town officials and departments. My budget will ultimately be passed or changed by the rest of the Town Board by mid-November.

I know affordability is on everyone’s minds. We are under the tax cap this year, meaning the budget growth is less than what New York State would recommend as the “maximum” budget increase. This is opposed to last year’s budget, which was certainly a rip-off, the band-aid budget with all the contractual increases and leftover fund-balance issues we were facing, as well

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