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TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. – Town Board members have adopted a $17.3 million 2026 budget carrying a 12.44% increase of $1.91 million, giving police assurances that no positions will be cut.

Under the spending plan adopted during a Thursday, Nov. 20, meeting, there will be a $10.62 million property tax levy representing a 4.22% increase of $430,281.

Board members over the past month were asked to include funding for a vacant Police Department position and health insurance coverage for themselves while bringing the appropriations under the state tax levy limit by using $1.9 million in fund balances.

“We have a budget that came in below the tax cap, kept all the positions. And everybody gets what the departments had worked on,” Deputy Supervisor Cl

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