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Sewer Fund

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Rate-funded (user fees, not property tax)

Composition over time

top 8categories · rest in “Other”

Operating rate revenue— what customers pay for current service (O&M, interest & penalties, special assessments). When this line meets the top of the stack, rates fully cover operations. Total operating revenue— rates plus non-rate sources (state aid for O&M, interfund transfers, interest income). Bond principal & the matching Capital Charge revenue are excluded since they cancel by design.

On AFR years the category breakdown is limited — AFRs report enterprise-fund spending as rollup totals per major function (e.g. one Sanitary Sewers Contractual line covering operator contract, repairs, electricity, and supplies combined). The chart cannot split these after the fact; budget years use finer sub-codes and show more category detail.

Show data table
CategoryFY17/18FY18/19FY19/20FY20/21FY21/22FY22/23FY23/24FY24/25FY25/26FY26/27
Plant operation$0$43K$662$47K$44K$73K
Pumping & hauling$2K$4K$13K$57K$26K$50K
Admin & overhead$0$93K$0$0$655$2K$9K$4K$26K$4K
Plant utilities$17$16K$26K$29K$21K$43K
Repairs & supplies$3K$13K$11K$60K$15K$29K
Lab & permits$2K$8K$5K$29K$11K$11K
Other$0$8K$0
Financing$0$0
Interfund transfers$0

Year-by-year

FYStateAs ofOperating revenueOperating appropriationOperating gapRate coverage
FY26/27AdoptedApr 2026$246K$208K−$38K104%
FY25/26Budget + amend. (1)Oct 2025$160K$142K−$18K91%
FY24/25²AFRMay 2025$151K$221K+$71K50%
FY23/24¹AFRMay 2024$136K$100K−$36K92%
FY22/23AFRMay 2023$73K$57K−$16K28%
FY21/22AFRMay 2022$26K$37K+$11K0%
FY20/21AFRMay 2021$25K$43K+$18K0%
FY19/20AFRMay 2020$20K$0−$20K
FY18/19AFRMay 2019$463K$93K−$370K0%
FY17/18AFRMay 2018$0$0$0
  1. ¹FY23/24WWTP startup window — non-rate revenue includes ~$1.05M of NYS State Aid for plant construction (ES3901). Construction was capitalized as ES infrastructure (ES106 grew to ~$7.9M, with ~$6.2M of bonds payable) rather than flowed through operating appropriations. Operating expenses ramp up from FY 24/25 as the plant came into service.
  2. ²FY24/25First full year of WWTP operations. AFR begins reporting depreciation on the plant (~$212K, excluded from operating appropriation here since it's the accounting echo of the EFC bond's capital investment). Non-rate revenue still includes a large state-aid component as construction wraps. Steady-state operating reads begin FY 25/26.
Forecast accuracy — how close were budgets to actual?

For closed years (where AFR is available), this compares what was originally adopted to what was authorized after amendments to what was actually spent. Positive variance means the year closed above budget; negative means under.

FYAdopted budgetAfter amendmentsAFR actualVariance (actual vs. authorized)
FY24/25$346K$352K$451K+$99K
FY23/24$100K
FYInOut (operating)Out (capital)NetSource
FY24/25+$35K+$35KAFR
FY23/24+$25K+$25KAFR
FY22/23+$44K+$44KAFR
FY21/22+$23K+$23KAFR
FY20/21+$25K+$25KAFR
FY19/20+$20K+$20KAFR
FY17/18$0AFR
Per-flow breakdown (all FYs)
FY FY24/25
  • ES5031Interfund Transfers← (unspecified)+$35K
FY FY23/24
  • ES5031Interfund Transfers← (unspecified)+$25K
FY FY22/23
  • ES5031Interfund Transfers← (unspecified)+$44K
FY FY21/22
  • ES5031Interfund Transfers← (unspecified)+$23K
FY FY20/21
  • ES5031Interfund Transfers← (unspecified)+$25K
FY FY19/20
  • ES5031Interfund Transfers← (unspecified)+$20K
FY FY17/18
  • ES99019Transfers to Other Funds→ (unspecified)−$0
About this fund
Village Sewer Enterprise. Rate-funded by sewer customers. Operates the WWTP and sewer collection system. The sewer fund's self-supporting status is an active issue tracked on /issues/sewer-self-supporting.

See also the activity-based-cost methodology — same data, organized by service activity instead of OSC chart-of-accounts category.