Current Town Budget & Archive
2026 Town Budget (PDF)
Budget Workshop - SEPTEMBER 30 @ 6PM | Agenda | Tentative Budget | Minutes | Video
The Tentative Budget is a rough draft budget based on conversations and decisions made between the Supervisor and the Town’s department heads. The Budget Workshop allows the Town Council to weigh in and modify the Supervisor’s decisions made in the rough draft. Once the Town Council is satisfied with their decisions on the Tentative Budget, it becomes the Town Council’s budget, commonly known as the Preliminary Budget. The Supervisor may be required by the Town Council to research and execute certain directives in order to cut the Preliminary Budget even further. This will take place between the Budget Workshop and the November Special Meeting.
Public Hearing - NOVEMBER 6 @ 6PM | Agenda | Preliminary Budget | Minutes | Video
The Public Hearing will be on the 2026 Preliminary Budget and public input will be sought to inform the Town Council on their to-date efforts to produce a fiscally responsible budget.
2025 proposed salaries for the following elected officials, as required by Town Law §108:
Town Supervisor - $
Town Clerk - $
Highway Superintendent - $
Town Councilmember - $
Special Meeting to Adopt Budget - NOVEMBER 13 @ 6PM | Agenda | Minutes | Video
The Town Council will use the Public Hearing input, as well as the Supervisor’s work since the September Budget Workshop to further refine the Town Budget. Once the input is considered and the Supervisor’s work incorporated in the amended Preliminary Budget, the Town Council will adopt by resolution the 2026 Final Budget, which is the budget to be used for taxation purposes in 2025.
Town of Essex Trend Budget Analysis and 2025 Tax Bill demonstration (PDF)
2025 Town Budget (PDF)
General/Highway Fund Tax rate per $1000 of Assessed value = $4.8293 (an increase of +9.55% over last year)
2024 Town Budget (PDF)
General/Highway Fund Tax rate per $1000 of Assessed value = $4.40185 (a decrease of -11.07% over last year)