By Holly Crocco
Patterson Town Supervisor Richard Williams presented his tentative 2025 budget last month, which proposes a 3.7 percent increase in the tax levy.
The total $10.3 million budget represents a 2.09 percent increase over 2024.
Williams said the town is projecting that general fund revenues will be going down significantly next year, and budgeted that number to be just shy of $3 million. “We have started to see that trend this year,” he said at the Sept. 25 Patterson Town Board meeting.
That includes cable franchise fees, as more people switch to options like DIRECTV, as well as mortgage taxes.
Using $1.1 million from the “less expanded balance,” that leaves $6.2 million to be raised via taxes.
“We have held the line at the 2 percent for the general fund and the highway budgets within our town budget, and even cut spending in the general fund and the highway department by over $500,000,” said Williams. “Nonetheless, many of the departments and outside agencies that we fund had requested significant increases that we are currently wrestling with.”
While the board had planned to hold a public hearing on the budget during the first meeting in October, that hearing has been pushed to Oct. 23 at 7 p.m., at Patterson Town Hall.
The budget includes salary raises for the office of supervisor, from $104,500 to $106,600; town clerk, from $78, 900 to $80,400; deputy town supervisor, from $23,500 to $24,000; town council members, from $20,900 to $21,300; town justices, from $39,500 to $40,600; highway superintendent, from $122,500 to $123,500; and receiver of taxes, from $75,000 to $77,300.
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