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Town

Finance

Audited AFR actuals from the NYS Comptroller, plus adopted and preliminary budgets mirrored from the Town's DocumentCenter.
Total appropriation$7.88M
Funds8
Largest transfer$961KGeneral Fund (Town-wide) · FY FY24/24

All Town residents pay (incl. Village)

General Fund (Town-wide)

AAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$2.39M
Approp.
$2.32M
Net
+$70K
Paid by all Town residents (incl. Village residents)·32 FYs·↗ $364K transfer in

Highway — Town-wide

DAAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$129K
Approp.
$162K
Net
−$34K
Paid by all Town residents (incl. Village residents)·8 FYs·$34K deficit

Town-outside-villages residents pay

General Fund (Town-outside)

BAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$1.36M
Approp.
$1.44M
Net
−$84K
Paid by Town residents outside the villages·32 FYs·↙ $185K transfer out$84K deficit

Highway — Town-outside

DBAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$1.61M
Approp.
$1.54M
Net
+$71K
Paid by Town residents outside the villages·32 FYs·↗ $185K transfer in↙ $116K transfer out

Fire (Tivoli + Hardscrabble districts)

SFAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$558K
Approp.
$599K
Net
−$42K
Paid by properties in the fire district·32 FYs·↗ $250K transfer in$42K deficit

Consolidated Lighting District

SLAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$28K
Approp.
$12K
Net
+$16K
Paid by properties in the lighting district·32 FYs

Water Enterprise

SWAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$192K
Approp.
$152K
Net
+$40K
Rate-funded (user fees, not property tax)·32 FYs

Capital Projects

HAFRFY FY25/25
Revenue
$1.94M
Approp.
$1.65M
Net
+$292K
Debt-funded (not annual levy)·31 FYs·↗ $116K transfer in

Deep dives

Activity-based cost methodology

How fully-loaded service costs are computed for the Town

Plain-English walkthrough of the ABC pipeline as applied to the Town A General Fund: how the A/B/DA/DB fund split works, why police is a $130K B-fund contract payment to the Village rather than an own-operated department, and how each fund's allocation is computed independently.

Inter-fund flows

Money moving between Town funds

Every transfer between Town funds — Town-wide A subsidies, Town-outside B → DB highway transfers, capital-projects transfers. Reconciles each outflow with its matching inflow and flags transfers where the two sets of books don't tie.

Village vs Town — per-capita comparison

What each resident directly funds, side by side

Per-capita spending on functionally equivalent services (streets, general government, planning/zoning) compared between Village and Town-outside-villages residents. Hosted under Village finance but covers both jurisdictions.

Sources: OSC Local Government Annual Financial Reports (osc.ny.gov) for audited actuals; Town budget PDFs mirrored from the CivicPlus DocumentCenter for adopted & preliminary figures. Town fiscal year is calendar-year (FY24/24 = calendar 2024).