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Village trustees review tentative 2025–26 budget, defer salary and IT decisions
Summary
Trustees reviewed a streamlined budget book showing FY 23/24 actuals, a 24/25 current budget and a tentative 25/26 proposal; major discussions covered police equipment and overtime, fleet repairs, and fixed capital and debt service lines. Staff will return next week with salary and IT details.
Speaker 1 opened the meeting by distributing the trustees' budget books and said the packet was compressed to show key figures rather than the mayor’s fuller production: "So everyone has their budget book…we try to simplify…".
Speaker 2 walked the board through Schedule 1-A and the three columns of figures: the prior-year actuals for 23/24, the current 24/25 budget (referred to in the packet as 2425) and the tentative 25/26 budget (shown as 2526). Speaker 2 told trustees they would hold off on approving salary changes until the new IT vendor completes a systems review that may yield savings.
The police department request prompted detailed questions. Speaker 2 asked whether the budget covered body cameras and the associated storage costs; Speaker 5 said the village was pursuing grants and that the local share for storage and other items the grant does not cover would be about $20,000: "We're working on the grants though…as soon as they give us the grant, that's our portion…for the body cameras for the storage…the grant would not cover."
Trustees also flagged a large increase in "repair of apparatus" which Speaker 1 attributed to the age of the village fleet, and discussed variable insurance and workers' compensation costs tied to the community’s safety-group membership and New York State funds. On benefits, debt service and capital allocations Speaker 2 said those numbers are fixed in the draft and not subject to adjustment at this stage.
Speaker 1 described multiple annual audits and said recent audits completed more quickly than before. The board directed staff to return next week with more detailed salary line items and to let the IT vendor firm up proposals before any salary-related changes are adopted.
The meeting concluded with agreement that staff will supply follow-up estimates on refuse frequency, recycling-container procurement and firm figures for equipment purchases ahead of budget adoption.
