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Tompkins County adopts 2025 budget after debates over tax cap and fund balance
Summary
After hours of amendments and roll-call votes, the Tompkins County Legislature approved the 2025 budget and five-year capital program, accepting an amended levy calculation tied to a corrected tax-cap figure and several targeted contingency adjustments.
Tompkins County legislators voted to adopt the county's 2025 budget and the 2025'2029 capital program on Nov. 19 after a protracted debate over the county tax cap and use of fund balance.
The meeting featured repeated amendments aimed at keeping the levy within a corrected tax-cap calculation that County Administrator Lisa Holmes disclosed earlier in the meeting. Holmes told the chamber staff discovered an error in the sales-tax credit formula that reduced Tompkins County's tax cap from the 4.45% shown in the packet to 2.72%, creating a $148,607 gap between the earlier proposal and the corrected cap.
Budget Committee Chair Mike Lane moved the packet budget and legislators then offered several amendments. One focused on adding a geographic information systems analyst position into…
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