Overview
Broome County, whose seat is Binghamton, adopted its 2026 budget by Resolutions 417 and 418 of 2025. Total All Funds appropriations are $489,469,173, up $15,744,249 (+3.32%) from 2025. The General Fund accounts for $311,080,514 of the appropriations. The total property tax levy is $76,851,085; the City of Binghamton's share of that levy is $11,770,210.85. The full-value tax rate is 5.08 (down from 5.50, −7.62%) and the taxable-value rate is 11.41. This is the county dashboard — the City of Binghamton is a separate government, and its share of the county levy is not a city budget figure.
Source: 2026 Adopted Budget Book (Final), Summary by Fund p. 16.
At a glance — 2026 adopted
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Headline budget
From the Summary by Fund, p. 16, of the 2026 Adopted Budget Book (Final). Use the search box in At a glance to filter these figures, or download them as a CSV.
| Total All Funds appropriations | $489,469,173 |
| Estimated revenue, all funds | $396,368,731 |
| Appropriated fund balance, all funds | $16,949,357 |
| Property tax support, all funds | $76,151,085 |
| Provision for uncollected taxes | $700,000 |
| Total property tax levy | $76,851,085 |
| General Fund appropriations | $311,080,514 |
| of which: General Operating Departments | $183,717,992 |
| of which: Social Services | $127,362,522 |
| City of Binghamton share of the county levy | $11,770,210.85 |
| Appropriations change vs 2025 | +$15,744,249 (+3.32%) |
| Full-value tax rate, 2026 (2025: 5.50) | 5.08 |
| Taxable-value tax rate, 2026 | 11.41 |
Source: 2026 Adopted Budget Book (Final), Summary by Fund p. 16; December 30, 2025 levy resolution (levy cross-check).
Breakdown by fund
The p. 16 summary as published: the book's two General Fund lines sum to the General Fund total, and the all-funds build sums exactly. The book does not publish a further fund-by-fund split in the passages cited, so none is shown rather than assembled from other documents. Scroll sideways on a phone; the fund column stays pinned.
| Fund / component | Appropriations | Revenue / support |
|---|---|---|
| General Fund — General Operating Departments | $183,717,992 | — |
| General Fund — Social Services | $127,362,522 | — |
| General Fund total | $311,080,514 | — |
| All other funds (total all funds minus General Fund) | $178,388,659 | — |
| Total All Funds appropriations | $489,469,173 | $489,469,173 |
| Estimated revenue | — | $396,368,731 |
| Appropriated fund balance | — | $16,949,357 |
| Property tax support | — | $76,151,085 |
Note on the two totals: the $76,851,085 levy is $700,000 above the $76,151,085 tax support in the summary because the levy adds the provision for uncollected taxes. The $178,388,659 all-other-funds figure is arithmetic only ($489,469,173 − $311,080,514) and is not a published fund total.
Source: 2026 Adopted Budget Book (Final), Summary by Fund p. 16.
County tax calculator
Estimate the Broome County portion of a property tax bill from the adopted 2026 full-value rate of $5.08 per $1,000 of full (market) value.
Estimated county tax: $$1,016.00
Worked check: a $200,000 full-value property gives 200 × $5.08 = $$1,016.00. This is an estimate of the county portion only — it excludes school, town, city, and village taxes. Actual bills are computed on assessed value using the equalization rate.
Legislature meetings
Agendas and schedule: Broome County Legislature, Meetings (official 2026 Legislative Meeting Schedule).
Pattern: regular Legislative Sessions are held in the Legislative Chambers, 6th Floor, Edwin L. Crawford County Office Building, Government Plaza, Binghamton, at 5:00 p.m., monthly on Thursdays. Next regular session: Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 5:00 p.m.
Disclosed conflict, not affecting the next date: the meetings page lists the December session as December 17, while the county directory lists December 18. The November 19 date is the same in both sources. Check the meetings page for the current schedule.
Elected officials
The budget was adopted by the Broome County Legislature (Resolutions 417 and 418 of 2025). No individual legislators are named in the cited budget passages, so no individual names are shown here rather than guessed.
Source: 2026 Adopted Budget Book (Final).
Sources & notes
- Sources used: Broome County 2026 Adopted Budget Book (Final), Summary by Fund p. 16 — adopted budget book (PDF); December 30, 2025 levy resolution (levy cross-check, cited in the research record); Broome County Legislature meetings page — 2026 Legislative Meeting Schedule.
- Sum checks (all exact): all-funds build ($396,368,731 + $16,949,357 + $76,151,085 = $489,469,173); levy ($76,151,085 + $700,000 = $76,851,085, matching the levy resolution); General Fund ($183,717,992 + $127,362,522 = $311,080,514); all-other-funds arithmetic ($489,469,173 − $311,080,514 = $178,388,659).
- What is not claimed: no fund-by-fund split beyond the two General Fund lines is published in the passages cited, so none is shown. No audit or ACFR figure is shown: audits were not systematically retrieved in this research pass, and no budget figure is substituted for an audit figure. No neighbor comparison, livability, housing, or schools section yet: those are built during New York's standard pass from verified state datasets, not from unverified figures. No sales-tax tracker: New York has no SPLOST-style program with a published project list for Broome County. The December session date conflict is disclosed in the meetings section.
- Jurisdiction palette: No verified Broome County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.