Town
Town of Van Etten: budget and spending
- $1.8Mtotal spending, 2025
Spending by category, 2025
Line by line
Other operations $617K
- Snow Removal: personal services: $131K
- Snow Removal: contractual: $68K
- Water Administration: personal services: $43K
- Broadband Improvements: contractual: $41K
- Legislative Board: contractual: $35K
- Water Administration: equipment and capital outlay: $32K
- Assessment: personal services: $30K
- Garage: contractual: $30K
- Clerk: personal services: $27K
- Cemetery: contractual: $24K
Buildings and construction $457K
- Permanent Improvements Highway: equipment and capital outlay: $169K
- Maintenance of Roads: contractual: $115K
- Maintenance of Roads: personal services: $70K
- Highway and Street Administration: personal services: $63K
- Operation of Plant: contractual: $41K
- Highway and Street Administration: contractual: $284
Public safety $182K
- Fire Protection: contractual: $160K
- Dog Control: personal services: $9,000
- Safety Inspection: contractual: $5,062
- Safety Inspection: personal services: $3,753
- Dog Control: contractual: $3,057
- Examining Boards: contractual: $1,000
Debt payments $177K
- Serial Bonds: debt principal: $171K
- Serial Bonds: debt interest: $6,966
Insurance and benefits $140K
- Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $91K
- Unallocated Insurance: contractual: $33K
- Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $16K
Vehicles and transportation $95K
- Machinery: contractual: $95K
Staff and payroll $89K
- State Retirement System: employee benefits: $54K
- Social Security: employee benefits: $35K
Professional services $19K
- Law: contractual: $14K
- Personnel: personal services: $4,550
Waste and environment $14K
- Refuse and Garbage: contractual: $14K
From Town of Van Etten’s annual financial report to the Office of the New York State Comptroller (2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31), all funds. Categories group the state’s account codes: technology is data processing, phones, 911 and radio and computer instruction; transfers between the body’s own funds are left out. The Comptroller’s data ↗
Figures are public records: the body’s own reports (marked by year) and other agencies’ records of what it bought or received. They aren’t added together. Something wrong? Tell us.