JOHNSTOWN — The Fulton County Board of Supervisors is set to begin budget workshops on the county’s $100.4 million 2022 tentative budget, which currently includes a projected 0.8% property tax levy increase.
The Board of Supervisors approved the tentative budget during its regular monthly meeting last week, which essentially puts the 2022 budget on the legislative floor for potential amendments before it is finalized.
The board also voted unanimously to set Nov. 29 at 1:30 p.m. as the public hearing for a local law to raise the 2022 budgeted salaries of 32 of the county’s appointed officials, at a combined cost of approximately $123,559.
The county’s 2022 tentative budget includes a 9.2% year-over-year spending increase of $8.5 million and currently carries with it a total county property tax levy increase of 0.8%, bringing the county’s total property tax levy to $31.3 million. For the 2022 budget, the proposed average county tax rate per thousand dollars of assessed value is $10.98, up 9 cents from 2021, according to the budget summary presented by county budget director Alice Kuntzsch.
The 2022 Fulton County tentative budget is posted to the county’s website at fultoncountyny.gov and includes Kuntzsch’s budget message to supervisors. In the budget message Kuntzsch states the county department’s preliminary revenue and expense projections in July included the need for a 24.2% property tax levy increase, which would have equated to an average property tax rate increase of $2.64 per $1,000 of assessed property value, but that was knocked down by the Board of Supervisors Finance Committee, which used $167,000 from the county’s Country Road fund, $270,000 from the Road Machinery Fund Balance and about $3 million from the county’s general fund balance to cut the property tax levy increase to a little less than 1%.
In her budget message Kuntzsch said county’s spending increase is also offset by increasing revenues: State and Federal aid is up 9.9% ($2.1 million), revenue paid for county functions is projected to increase 8.5% ($1.1 million), and all other revenues are expected to increase by a combined 17.5% ($4.6 million), which includes a projected increase in sales tax of $1 million and a $50,000 increase in projected legal fees revenue to the county clerk’s office.
Some other tentative budget highlights include:
• $1.1 million in payroll cost increase due to the settlement of two union contracts.
• $921,051 decrease in the county’s contribution to the state pension fund due to a reduction in employer contribution rates announced by the New York state Comptroller in August.
• $229,903 from the county’s Hotel Room Occupancy bed tax has been budgeted to offset “a large portion of the county’s tourism promotion program.”
• Municipal Equalization Rates continue to fall, with a countywide average drop of 1.2%
Gloversville 5th Ward Supervisor Greg Young said he expects the board will discuss the possibility of using more of the county’s fund balance to hold the countywide tax rate flat.
“We’re estimating that close to $1 million from the 2021 adopted budget will be going back into the fund balance, so I think we’re in good shape to use that to stabilize the tax rate for taxpayers,” Young said.
Young said he believes the salary increases for the county’s appointed officials will also be discussed during the budget workshop meeting.
“The personnel office conducted a salary study for certain appointed positions and looked at eight comparable counties and their salary schedules for these 31 positions, and that’s one area where I’m hoping to get more information about this study and what the peer counties were,” Young said. “For some of those positions, it does seem like quite a jump, more so than what the union positions in most recent contracts are receiving in raises. So, I’d like to personally learn a little bit more about how the conclusions were reached.”
Proposed increases
These are the proposed salary increases for 32 of the county’s appointed positions.
* Job title – 2022 Base Salary – Proposed Raise – Adjusted 2022 Salary
* Fire Coor./Civil Def. Director — $58,617 – $6,819 – $65,436
* EMS Coordinator — $42,491 – $2,449 – $44,940
* Clerk(BOE) — $33,775 – $1,068 – $34,843
* Deputy Budget Dir./Co. Aud. — $53,006 – $3,893 – $56,899
* Director of Information Technology — $89,048 – $1,825 – $90,873
* Director of Personnel — $73,476 – $10,885 – $84,361
* Deputy Director of Personnel — $58,327 – $4,808 – $63,135
* Payroll Benefits Administrator — $42,404 – $7,996 – $50,400
* Personnel Specialist — $37,550 – $3,850 – $41,400
* Senior Payroll Clerk — $38,024 – $1,513 – $39,537
* Payroll Benefits Clerk — $34,677 – $1,035 – $35,712
* Personnel Clerk — $33,808 – $1,035 – $34,843
* Dir. of Real Property Tax Services — $61,591 – $8,789 – $70,380
* Deputy Comm. of Social Services — $73,710 – $2,363 – $76,073
* Accounting Supervisor Grade B — $58,572 – $4,563 – $63,135
* Director of Financial Assistance — $63,979 – $2,779 – $66,758
* Director of Services — $63,979 – $2,779 – $66,758
* Social Services Attorney — $85,782 – $6,433 – $92,215
* Asst. Social Services Attorney — $33,027 – $6,303 – $39,330
* Public Health Director — $92,610 – $1,340 – $93,950
* Asst. Public Health Director — $86,787 – $2,604 – $89,391
* Public Health Fiscal Manager — $58,572 – $4,563 – $63,135
* Deputy County Clerk — $50,207 – $5,833 – $56,040
* Deputy County Treasurer — $58,327 – $4,808 – $63,135
* Asst. Deputy County Treasurer — $47,570 – $2,830 – $50,400
* Undersheriff — $79,636 – $2,070 – $81,706
* Captain (Road Patrol) — $74,986 – $1,035 – $76,021
* Captain (Corrections) — $74,986 – $1,035 – $76,021
* Lieutenant Correction Officer — $64,305 – $3,208 – $67,513
* Secretary to the Sheriff — $43,113 – $3,462 – $46,575
* Assistant County Attorney — $29,741 – $9,589 – $39,330
The county budget workshop meeting is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors chambers at the county building at 223 W. Main St., Johnstown.
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