County
County of Tompkins: budget and spending
- $282.1Mtotal spending, 2025 ▲ 4%
- $3.1Mtechnology and telecom, 2025
Spending by category, 2025
Compared with 2024
| Category | 2025 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.