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Town of Catharine: budget and spending

Spending by category, 2024

Line by line

Buildings and construction $331K

  • Permanent Improvements Highway: equipment and capital outlay: $172K
  • Maintenance of Roads: contractual: $54K
  • Highway and Street Administration: personal services: $52K
  • Maintenance of Roads: personal services: $38K
  • Operation of Plant: contractual: $15K
  • Highway and Street Administration: contractual: $1,442

Other operations $251K

  • Garage: contractual: $65K
  • Clerk: personal services: $40K
  • Snow Removal: personal services: $36K
  • Snow Removal: contractual: $32K
  • Supervisor: personal services: $23K
  • Assessment: contractual: $11K
  • Parks: contractual: $9,100
  • Municipal Court: personal services: $8,549
  • Brush And Weeds: personal services: $6,286
  • Legislative Board: personal services: $4,000

Public safety $116K

  • Fire Protection: contractual: $81K
  • Safety Inspection: personal services: $33K
  • Safety Inspection: contractual: $1,173
  • Traffic Control: contractual: $701

Insurance and benefits $95K

  • Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $53K
  • Unallocated Insurance: contractual: $27K
  • Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $15K
  • Disability Insurance: employee benefits: $180

Vehicles and transportation $37K

  • Machinery: contractual: $31K
  • Machinery: personal services: $6,345

Staff and payroll $36K

  • Social Security: employee benefits: $19K
  • State Retirement System: employee benefits: $17K

Waste and environment $17K

  • Refuse and Garbage: contractual: $17K

Professional services $11K

  • Law: contractual: $11K

Technology and telecom $11K

  • Central Data Processing: contractual: $7,860
  • Central Data Processing: equipment and capital outlay: $2,775

From Town of Catharine’s annual financial report to the Office of the New York State Comptroller (2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31), 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.