Village Budget 2026-2027
Active
10 meetings ·
2026-01-14 to 2026-03-26
Annual budget process including tax cap override, department work sessions, and capital plan.
Timeline (9 meetings)
2026-01-14
Board Of Trustees
Which of the five municipal services do you believe have should have its current funding reduced or held flat to create resources for higher priority areas? Right? So the first question will kind of inform the second question. And then on to revenue …
2026-01-21
Board Of Trustees
Croton's Board of Trustees took a cautious approach to the upcoming fiscal year at their January 21 meeting, scheduling a public hearing on a potential property tax cap override while emphasizing no decision has been made to actually exceed the limit…
2026-01-28
Board Of Trustees
flex that. But Right. You get the idea. Right. Yeah. But I just think a mechanism for that to happen. Well, I think the manager needs to, you know, kind of this needs to sort of be prioritized and thought about as in in phases. Right? So you can thin…
2026-02-04
Board of Trustees
=== HEADLINE ===
Volunteer EMS Top Responders Honored as Tax Cap Override Stirs Confusion
=== SUMMARY ===
Croton's volunteer EMS top responders were recognized at the February 4 Board of Trustees meeting, where officials also adopted a routine tax c…
=== EXECUTIVE BRIEF ===
• Approved treasurer's report: $497,615.63 across all funds
• Adopted Local Law No. 2 of 2026: property tax cap override authorization (routine, no intent to override)
• Adopted Local Law No.
2026-02-25
Board Of Trustees
to talk a little bit about how grants and how to decide when to pursue a particular grant, talk about a little bit on the anticipated state grants, for this year. Grants for potential cap village capital projects that have already been identified, by…
2026-03-18
Board Of Trustees
feel that they're less effective. Yeah. You know? But we would really need to get some expert judgment in here. And that's why I think Yep. You know, it's I think I think we should get as much money as we can Yep. From this opportunity. It's just ali…
2026-03-25
Board Of Trustees
So then on to the water fund. The water fund, there's no, budgeted increase in the rates for this year. This is the second year in a row that we've been able to hold the rates steady. Alright. That's that's what the next slide says too. Then onto the…
the next not go one more. Yeah. So then nope. Go back. Sorry. Okay. Alright. And then so the, the slide after this one goes into the breakdown of what, how we're how we're proposing to fund this, but, we also have a $1,000,000 capital, project for th…
Yes. Versus, right, other places. Absolutely. As we saw, you know, infrastructure has the highest allocation in the capital plan. And, you know, for example, with our road our road paving program, we normally allocate, you know, between 400 and $500,…
Alright. We proceed. I'll just say before we go on to the, the next public hearing, we do have, four budget work sessions. This is that we're not adopting. Yeah. Yeah. We're in one of the we're actually getting confused. We're not my budget tonight. …
Yep. I think that's a really good point. And we really haven't I mean, this is just allowing us to have the option to have speeding cameras, right, by doing that. But we haven't really had the debate around red light cameras yet. Which is also on the…
2026-03-25
Board of Trustees
=== HEADLINE ===
Chicken coop rules draw fire as village eyes $7.2 million capital plan
=== SUMMARY ===
A Truesdale Drive resident urged the Board of Trustees to reconsider a zoning change that would reduce the minimum distance for fowl pens from 50…
3; adoption scheduled for next meeting
• Planning Board memo to be addressed regarding Metro-North special permit status and parking requirements
=== ARTICLE ===
Nobody showed up to comment on a $7.2 million capital plan or a budget that determines …
The capital plan doubles the road paving budget to $900,000, directs $3.5 million to infrastructure, and funds engineering design for a seawall at the train station — where the village just learned it may qualify for 50% county funding. Train station…
**What to watch for:** Budget work sessions are scheduled over the coming weeks — check the village calendar for department-specific dates. The board will consider final adoption of Local Law No. 3 at its next regular meeting, potentially with a revi…
2026-03-26
Board Of Trustees
Good evening, and welcome to our first budget work session for the 02/2627 budget. Our first meeting will be this evening with the Department of Public Works. But before we get to that,
Chief policing in today's day and age. Yeah. Yeah. Chief, I was wondering what you know, of course, this will be in in our capital plan, the actual funding. But what's Axon telling you in terms of delivery time?
The Board of Trustees had barely settled in for their first budget work session of the year when DPW Superintendent delivered a dramatic update: a water main had ruptured on Alcott Avenue just hours earlier, cutting water service across the village.