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County of Tompkins: budget and spending

Spending by category, 2025

Compared with 2024
Category20252024Change
Other operations$165.6M$158.4M▲ 5%
Vehicles and transportation$38.1M$36.3M▲ 5%
Public safety$27M$27.8M▼ 3%
Buildings and construction$14.8M$14.6M▲ 1%
Instruction$10.3M$9.7M▲ 5%
Debt payments$9.7M$9.2M▲ 5%
Waste and environment$8.7M$9.4M▼ 7%
Technology and telecom$3.1M$4.4M▼ 30%
Insurance and benefits$2.5M$388K▲ 546%
Professional services$2.4M$2M▲ 17%
Line by line

Other operations $165.6M

  • Distribution Of Sales Tax: contractual: $21.3M
  • Social Services Administration: personal services: $12.9M
  • Medicaid to State: contractual: $12.1M
  • Child Care: contractual: $7.7M
  • Social Services Administration: contractual: $6.8M
  • Safety Net: contractual: $5.9M
  • General Government: equipment and capital outlay: $5.8M
  • Social Services Administration: employee benefits: $5.7M
  • Public Defender: contractual: $5.2M
  • Day Care: contractual: $5.1M

Vehicles and transportation $38.1M

  • Bus Operations: contractual: $28.3M
  • Airport: equipment and capital outlay: $3.7M
  • Airport: personal services: $1.7M
  • Airport: contractual: $1.7M
  • Airport: employee benefits: $768K
  • Machinery: contractual: $753K
  • Machinery: personal services: $327K
  • Transportation, Other: personal services: $212K
  • Bus Operations: personal services: $198K
  • Machinery: employee benefits: $144K

Public safety $27M

  • Sheriff: personal services: $5.6M
  • Jail: personal services: $4.1M
  • Fire Protection: personal services: $3.2M
  • Probation: personal services: $2.6M
  • Sheriff: employee benefits: $2.5M
  • Jail: employee benefits: $1.7M
  • Fire Protection: contractual: $1.6M
  • Fire Protection: employee benefits: $1.4M
  • Jail: contractual: $1.3M
  • Probation: employee benefits: $1.1M

Buildings and construction $14.8M

  • Permanent Improvements Highway: equipment and capital outlay: $3.4M
  • Permanent Improvements Highway: contractual: $2.7M
  • Maintenance of Roads: personal services: $2M
  • Operation of Plant: personal services: $1.9M
  • Operation of Plant: contractual: $1.8M
  • Maintenance of Roads: employee benefits: $868K
  • Operation of Plant: employee benefits: $842K
  • Maintenance of Roads: contractual: $653K
  • Highway and Street Administration: personal services: $283K
  • Highway and Street Administration: employee benefits: $125K

Instruction $10.3M

  • Education of Handicapped Children: contractual: $6.1M
  • Contribution to Community College: contractual: $2.8M
  • Other Education Activities: contractual: $849K
  • Community College Tuition: contractual: $521K

Debt payments $9.7M

  • Serial Bonds: debt principal: $5.7M
  • Serial Bonds: debt interest: $1.7M
  • Subscription-Based IT Arrangement: debt principal: $1.5M
  • Leases: debt principal: $401K
  • Bond Anticipation Notes: debt interest: $170K
  • Subscription-Based IT Arrangement: debt interest: $69K
  • Installment Purchase Debt: debt principal: $55K
  • Debt Service Other Government: debt principal: $40K
  • Leases: debt interest: $31K
  • Debt Service Other Government: debt interest: $4,559

Waste and environment $8.7M

  • Refuse and Garbage: contractual: $7.2M
  • Refuse and Garbage: personal services: $952K
  • Refuse and Garbage: employee benefits: $420K
  • Refuse and Garbage: equipment and capital outlay: $117K

Technology and telecom $3.1M

  • Central Data Processing: personal services: $1.2M
  • Public Safety Communication Systems: equipment and capital outlay: $800K
  • Central Data Processing: employee benefits: $531K
  • Central Data Processing: contractual: $293K
  • Central Data Processing: equipment and capital outlay: $243K

Insurance and benefits $2.5M

  • Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $2.1M
  • Unallocated Insurance: contractual: $323K
  • Unemployment Insurance: employee benefits: $68K

Professional services $2.4M

  • Personnel: personal services: $912K
  • Law: personal services: $417K
  • Personnel: employee benefits: $403K
  • Personnel: contractual: $397K
  • Law: employee benefits: $184K
  • Law: equipment and capital outlay: $43K
  • Law: contractual: $12K
  • Personnel: equipment and capital outlay: $2,438

From County of Tompkins’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.