🏛️ Board Of Trustees
Trustees to Review Fee Schedule and Department Budgets in Continued FY2026-27 Work Session
The Board of Trustees will continue budget deliberations for the fiscal year beginning June 1, reviewing the village fee schedule alongside recreation department and committee-level spending proposals that include increases for senior programs and youth activities.
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Key Actions & Decisions
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Review proposed fee schedule for 2026-27
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Review Recreation Department budget accounts
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Review Administration budget
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Review budget for village committees and programs
_Editor's note: This article previews a scheduled meeting based on the published agenda packet. After the meeting is held and video is released, coverage will be updated with the actual discussion and any votes taken._
The Croton-on-Hudson Board of Trustees will continue its line-by-line budget review this evening, focusing on the village's fee schedule and two spending areas: the Recreation Department and various village committees and programs. The work session is part of the board's annual deliberations ahead of the June 1 start of the fiscal year.
### Fee Schedule Under Review
Trustees will consider the proposed fee schedule for 2026-27, which sets charges for village services ranging from building permits to recreation program registrations. Residents have already been warned that some fees are headed upward — notably trash disposal charges, which the village manager said in January could nearly double due to Westchester County raising its tipping fees by roughly $12 per ton. The full fee schedule is posted as a separate document on the village treasurer's page.
### Recreation Department Budget
The recreation budget accounts show proposed increases across most program areas:
- **Recreation Administration** is proposed at $240,298, up about 4.6% from the current year's original budget of $229,602. Personnel costs account for the bulk of the increase.
- **Playgrounds and Recreation Center** operations would rise to $105,400 from $98,800, a 6.7% increase, with part-time personnel driving much of the growth.
- **Special Recreation Facilities** — which include the village pool and other specialized amenities — are proposed at $107,804, roughly matching this year's revised budget after a mid-year equipment repair pushed spending higher.
- **Youth Programs** would see a notable shift: the total rises to $127,600 from $123,135, but contractual expenses are proposed to drop from $20,600 to $7,100 while part-time personnel costs increase from $95,882 to $115,500.
- **Programs for the Aging** would increase to $68,170 from $59,255, a 15% jump, with part-time personnel costs rising from $38,525 to $47,240.
### Committee and Program Budgets
The committee-level accounts cover a wide range of village functions, with several notable changes:
- The **Planning Board's** budget would more than double to $25,550 from $10,650, with contractual expenses accounting for most of the increase.
- The **Recycling Program**, which saw its budget balloon mid-year to $425,287 in revised spending, is proposed at $201,808 — closer to the original $196,470. The mid-year spike reflected personnel costs not included in the original budget.
- **Off-Street Parking** operations are proposed at $229,030, slightly below the current year's original $233,111.
- **Auxiliary Police Services** would see a modest decrease to $256,133 from $262,089.
- The **Publicity** budget would drop from $99,114 to $73,469, with contractual expenses falling from a revised $80,114 to $54,031.
- The **Council on the Arts** would receive $11,085, up from $7,500.
- **Shade Tree** is proposed at $78,400, matching the original budget but well below this year's revised spending of $101,683.
- **Conservation Advisory Council** expenses would hold steady at $4,600.
- **Traffic Control** is proposed at $27,500, a modest increase from the original $26,000.
- **Human Rights** commission spending would remain at $13,000.
### Administration Budget
The board will also review the Administration budget, though detailed line items for that section are contained in the broader proposed budget document on the village website rather than in a separate attachment.
Tonight's session follows the trustees' first budget work session on March 26, where deliberations opened against the backdrop of a major water main break on Olcott Avenue and discussion of rising costs in snow removal and waste disposal.
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**Source documents:**
- [Proposed Fee Schedule 2026-2027](https://www.crotononhudson-ny.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif441/f/uploads/fee_schedule_2026-2027.pdf)
- [Proposed Budget 2026-2027](https://www.crotononhudson-ny.gov/village-treasurer/pages/proposed-budget-fiscal-year-2026-2027)
- [Recreation Department Accounts.pdf](https://play.champds.com/ATT/crotononhudsonny/2026-04/d315af88358ed2dd22316a10a2dd3ebb94877ebf.pdf)
- [Committee Accounts.pdf](https://play.champds.com/ATT/crotononhudsonny/2026-04/2eba263bce8c2d5e2cdb2116da4d974940987bf6.pdf)
Related coverage:
- [March 26, 2026 — Infrastructure Fails and Budget Plans Collide: Croton Village Weighs Costs of Aging Water Mains and Winter Overtime](/article/1)
- [January 14, 2026 — Croton DPW boss urges board to let bigger cities test new tech first](/article/22)
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