Chenango County budget hearing tonight
NORWICH – A public hearing on next year’s proposed Chenango County budget will be held tonight at 7 in the County Office Building on Court Street.
The 2010 budget would call for a .6 percent increase in the tax levy. The Chenango County Board of Supervisors will present the nearly $81 million budget to the public for comment, as required by law, and then vote on the plan.
The real property tax levy of $22.84 million is up about $136,789 or .6 percent. The average countywide tax rate of $13.75 will fluctuate, either increasing or decreasing, in all 22 municipalities based on state-established equalization rates and assessment totals in each town. The tentative tax rate dropped an average of 1.73 cents per $1,000 of assessed value from last year.
Spending for next year is up $2,010,000 or 2.55 percent, in large part due to increases in the cost of administering New York State’s social services programs. For the first time since 2002, the amount from surplus needed to help balance the budget exceeded $1 million, at $1.34 million.
The equipment list for all departments, most of which is partially funded by either state or federal cost-sharing, totaled more than $1 million before budgeters focused on ways to keep the levy in check. The Department of Public Works was asked to budget $1.8 million in anticipated CHIP’s revenues for 2010 instead of the $1.5 that he estimated the department would receive. The DPW director’s original estimate took into account a $288,000 cut back in the amount received this year.
Chenango County began 2009 with a surplus of $16.6 million. Through the year, supervisors have made appropriations of $1,050,000 to the emergency management communications project, $250,000 for highway equipment and $2,900 to the real property tax department – all from surplus.
Chenango County Treasurer William E. Evans said he never knows whether or nor comments from the public will be presented at the annual public hearing. “We’ve seen it very busy in some years and seen it very quiet in others,” he said.
“I do feel from the comments that I’ve heard personally, that the public appreciates the effort that the committees have made and the effort we’ve put forward to try to hold the line on the taxes,” he said.
The 2010 budget would call for a .6 percent increase in the tax levy. The Chenango County Board of Supervisors will present the nearly $81 million budget to the public for comment, as required by law, and then vote on the plan.
The real property tax levy of $22.84 million is up about $136,789 or .6 percent. The average countywide tax rate of $13.75 will fluctuate, either increasing or decreasing, in all 22 municipalities based on state-established equalization rates and assessment totals in each town. The tentative tax rate dropped an average of 1.73 cents per $1,000 of assessed value from last year.
Spending for next year is up $2,010,000 or 2.55 percent, in large part due to increases in the cost of administering New York State’s social services programs. For the first time since 2002, the amount from surplus needed to help balance the budget exceeded $1 million, at $1.34 million.
The equipment list for all departments, most of which is partially funded by either state or federal cost-sharing, totaled more than $1 million before budgeters focused on ways to keep the levy in check. The Department of Public Works was asked to budget $1.8 million in anticipated CHIP’s revenues for 2010 instead of the $1.5 that he estimated the department would receive. The DPW director’s original estimate took into account a $288,000 cut back in the amount received this year.
Chenango County began 2009 with a surplus of $16.6 million. Through the year, supervisors have made appropriations of $1,050,000 to the emergency management communications project, $250,000 for highway equipment and $2,900 to the real property tax department – all from surplus.
Chenango County Treasurer William E. Evans said he never knows whether or nor comments from the public will be presented at the annual public hearing. “We’ve seen it very busy in some years and seen it very quiet in others,” he said.
“I do feel from the comments that I’ve heard personally, that the public appreciates the effort that the committees have made and the effort we’ve put forward to try to hold the line on the taxes,” he said.
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