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Public budgets and spending in Tompkins County, NY

What the county, cities, towns, villages, school districts, libraries and fire districts spend, from the reports they file with the state and the federal E-Rate program. Spending across the county →

Counties (2)

NameTotal spendingTechnologyMoney still to spend
County of Tompkins $282.1M (2025) $3.1M
Tompkins County

Towns (9)

NameTotal spendingTechnologyMoney still to spend
TOWN of CAROLINE $4.4M (2025)
TOWN of DRYDEN $22.4M (2025) $39K
TOWN of ITHACA $27.9M (2025) $421K
TOWN of NEWFIELD $5.6M (2025)
Town of Danby $2.9M (2024) $17K
Town of Enfield $2.5M (2025)
Town of Groton $3.5M (2025)
Town of Lansing $16.7M (2025)
Town of Ulysses $3.7M (2025) $23K

Villages (6)

NameTotal spendingTechnologyMoney still to spend
VILLAGE of CAYUGA HEIGHTS $9.5M (2025) $51K
VILLAGE of DRYDEN $3.7M (2025)
VILLAGE of FREEVILLE $693K (2025)
VILLAGE of GROTON $10.2M (2025)
VILLAGE of TRUMANSBURG $4.8M (2025)
Village of Lansing $6.7M (2025)

School districts (13)

NameTotal spendingTechnologyMoney still to spend
Dryden Central School District $52.1M (2025) $1.7M$20K
Franziska Racker Centers $29K$91K
George Junior Republic Union Free School District $9.2M (2025) $62K$27K
Groton Central School District $26.2M (2025) $598K$180K
Immaculate Conception School $30K
Ithaca City School District $217.7M (2025) $5.8M$1M
Ithaca School District
Lansing Central School District $51.7M (2025) $898K$240K
New Roots Charter School $4,440$30K
Newfield Central School District $29.3M (2025) $1.1M$5,663
Newfield School District
Tompkins Community Action $40K$180K
Trumansburg Central School District $32.6M (2025) $1.5M$180K

BOCES and intermediate units (2)

NameTotal spendingTechnologyMoney still to spend
Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES $579K
Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES $35K$60K

Libraries (5)

Fire districts (5)

NameTotal spendingTechnologyMoney still to spend
Brooktondale Fire District $295K (2025)
Danby Fire District $512K (2025)
Lansing Fire District $913K (2025)
Mclean Fire District $208K (2025)
Slaterville Springs Fire District $455K (2025)

Public bodies (1)

NameTotal spendingTechnologyMoney still to spend
Finger Lakes Library System $6,444

Total spending is each body’s own annual report to the NYS Comptroller (all funds, newest year). Technology: data processing, phones, 911 and radio and computer instruction lines, plus E-Rate purchases. Money still to spend: E-Rate networking budget left in the current five-year cycle and Smart Schools bond money not yet planned.