TOWN OF MANLIUS – Property owners in the town of Manlius will see a modest tax increase of about 1.45 percent in 2022.
The town finalized its $16,916,415 budget last Wednesday.
“We did make some changes between the preliminary and final,” said Councilor Sara Bollinger, who serves on the finance committee. “Overall, we reduced the expenses from the preliminary to the final and we adjusted some of the appropriation amounts that were in the preliminary to the final.”
One of those changes was using a portion of the American Rescue Plan funds that the town has received for communication equipment in the police department and for technology upgrades in town hall. That allocation reduced the amount to be raised through property taxes.
The town still has $1,806,305 in American Rescue Plan funds available, which must be spent by 2026.
The tax rate both inside and outside the villages will increase by 7 cents per thousand assessed value – to $4.84 per thousand outside the villages and to $3.71 inside the villages. On a $200,000 home, that equates to an increase of $14 not including the special districts for water, fire, brush and trash removal and other services that aren’t the same for every property in the town.
To display how the taxes from a typical home are used, the town provided a sample tax receipt for a home that is assessed at $255,900. That sample home would have a tax bill of $2,137.75 and the funds would be allocated as follows:
Town Hall Services – $195.69
Police – $371.57
Highway – $348.04
Employee Benefits – $323.26
Fire Protection District – $465.30
Trash District – $360
Brush District – $64.55
Manlius Consolidated Water District – $9.34
Prior to the vote, outgoing Supervisor Ed Theobald remarked that the state comptroller’s fiscal stress monitoring data had been released and it showed that the town was in excellent fiscal condition. He thanked the finance committee, town manager Ann Oot and the town’s department heads for their work to bring the final budget under the state’s 2 percent tax cap.
