Okay. So I put together this, preview of the 2026, 2027 budget as we, approach the start of the budget season. Budget gets filed on March 20, and then we'll jump into the board's review process with the with the various department heads. Well, manager, it

The meeting also highlighted the practical limitations the committee faces. With only $200 remaining in its budget for the fiscal year ending May 30th, any significant new programming requires future funding. The committee agreed to draft a comprehensive programming "wish list" and submit a formal b…

On the infrastructure side, the Department of Public Works expects to finish sidewalk continuation projects at 61 Elmore and 40 Darby by the end of the year. Any additional sidewalk work will be evaluated in early 2026 once the village has a clearer picture of its budget.

Yeah. I mean, you really can just look at from street maintenance, right, from what's budgeted in the original budget, right, from the original budget of '26 to the tentative budget of '27 because that's that would show you what is, you know, what what the salaries and and benefits were for 2026 com…

At Monday’s Recreation Advisory Committee meeting, Recreation Department representative Mark Duncan announced that the 2026-2027 recreation budget will increase by approximately $25,000. The bump in funding is directly tied to the day camp's relocation from Holy Name of Mary back to the Croton schoo…

The Board also approved a $48,260.35 budget amendment to cover snow removal overruns from the Blizzard of 2026, offset by higher-than-expected revenues. The Village is working with Westchester County on a potential federal disaster declaration for reimbursement.

=== HEADLINE === Snow budget blows past limit as trustees eye grant strategy === SUMMARY === Croton's snow removal budget has been shattered after back-to-back winter storms, with overtime alone roughly tripling its allocation. Trustees also began mapping a grant strategy for 2026, including a pote…

The Board of Trustees opened its March 25 meeting with a public hearing on the proposed $20 million village budget for fiscal year 2026-27 — and not a single resident showed up to comment. The hearing was opened and closed in under a minute.

flow. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So just to quickly recap where we were this year, the budget is this budget, the 2025, 2026 budget was tax cap compliant. It had a flat tax rate compared to the previous year even though expenditures increased by more than $1,000,000. This is possible because…

I'll just ask the treasurer if she'd like to open up the the presentation, and then just we'll go slide by slide if you can, please. Okay. So this is our tentative budget for the fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven. As a reminder, the village runs on a June 1 to May 31 fiscal year. So…

The break punctuated what was already shaping up to be an infrastructure-heavy evening. The board spent nearly an hour walking through the DPW budget line by line for fiscal year 2026-27, with the superintendent explaining changes in everything from building maintenance to snow removal. The standou…

your overall budget in terms of our bond rating.

was appointed to the Police Advisory Committee through December 2026, while James Nadeau and Dan Ozaruk joined the Bicycle-Pedestrian Committee to help guide local infrastructure improvements. Beyond the routine appointments, the board laid the groundwork for significant policy decisions in the com…

Do we think we'll have a budget by April 1? No? Okay. No. No.

So this budget would cover that. I mean, I hope we don't continue to see that. Yeah.

No. Well, this wouldn't apply to this this doesn't apply to this year. So I had I had reached out to the committees in January about their budgets for this year.

Residents should note that 400 free gun safety locks are currently available in the police department lobby. Additionally, the village website is slated for a redesign during the 2026-2027 budget year, which Trustee Maria Slippen noted during discussions about improving multilingual access to villag…

Okay. You know, the budget so we can keep this number in mind, you know.

your budget as prepared. Mhmm. Staying conservative on the revenues and managing the expenditures Mhmm. And making decisions along the way as to what you should do or not do. Mhmm. I mean, if the interest rates drop in June, which the feds basically say they would have thinks that it's going to happ…

Well, yeah, I I guess depending on so looking back to, you know, 2022 or so in my mind, I mean, maybe there's still kind of a a hangover from COVID and the pandemic at that point. We we just wanna make sure we have you know, we're not just looking at one year, but we'll certainly, you know, take int…