Overview
Elizabethtown — the Essex County seat, governed as a town with no village — adopted a 2025 General Fund budget of $880,504 in revenues against $875,540 in expenditures, with $70,000 in operating transfers in, for a budgeted surplus of $74,964 after transfers. Real property taxes ($458,039) are just over half of revenues; General Government Support ($382,924) is the largest expenditure, followed by Employee Benefits ($175,491) and Culture and Recreation ($170,850). The town also issued $4,500,000 in bond anticipation notes in April 2025, due April 24, 2026.
Source: Town of Elizabethtown BAN Official Statement (2025 Adopted Budget column).
At a glance — adopted budget FY2025 (General Fund only)
Source: Town of Elizabethtown BAN Official Statement (2025 Adopted Budget column).
Headline budget (General Fund)
Appendix A2, 2025 Adopted Budget column. Revenues plus operating transfers in, less expenditures, equal the budgeted excess.
| Total revenues, 2025 adopted | $880,504 |
| Total expenditures, 2025 adopted | $875,540 |
| Excess of revenues over expenditures | $4,964 |
| Operating transfers in | $70,000 |
| Excess after transfers | $74,964 |
| General Fund balance, end of 2023 (unaudited AFR) | $1,179,191 |
Source: Town of Elizabethtown BAN Official Statement (2025 Adopted Budget column).
Breakdown: 2025 adopted budget
Revenues and expenditures, 2025 Adopted Budget column. Both sides sum exactly to their printed totals.
| Real property taxes | $458,039 |
| Real property tax items | $15,285 |
| Non-property tax items | $75,000 |
| Departmental income | $151,550 |
| Use of money and property | $55,000 |
| Licenses and permits | $8,200 |
| Fines and forfeitures | $30,000 |
| Miscellaneous | $3,500 |
| Revenues from state sources | $83,930 |
| Total revenues | $880,504 |
| General government support | $382,924 |
| Public safety | $9,000 |
| Health | $5,850 |
| Transportation | $82,500 |
| Economic assistance and opportunity | $2,200 |
| Culture and recreation | $170,850 |
| Home and community services | $46,725 |
| Employee benefits | $175,491 |
| Debt service | $0 |
| Total expenditures | $875,540 |
Sum checks: revenues add exactly to $880,504; expenditures add exactly to $875,540; $880,504 − $875,540 = $4,964, and $4,964 + $70,000 = $74,964. The official statement's bonded-debt-service appendix schedules EFC drinking-water bond principal totaling $948,272 through 2034.
Source: Town of Elizabethtown BAN Official Statement (2025 Adopted Budget column).
Elected officials
Town officials as named in the official statement (April 2025).
| Town Supervisor | Cathleen Reusser |
| Deputy Supervisor / Town Board | Jeffrey Allott |
| Town Board | Ben Morris |
| Town Board | William Wright Jr |
| Town Board | Adam Bailey |
Source: Town of Elizabethtown BAN Official Statement (2025 Adopted Budget column).
Sources & notes
- Only source used: Town of Elizabethtown, Preliminary Official Statement, $4,500,000 Bond Anticipation Notes, 2025 (Fiscal Advisors, April 7, 2025), Appendix A2. Official Statement (BAN POS).
- Sum checks: revenues sum exactly to $880,504; expenditures sum exactly to $875,540; the after-transfer excess reconciles exactly.
- What is not claimed: General Fund only (highway/other funds not shown); appendix unaudited; no FY2026 adopted figure (adoption unconfirmed); no village government exists in the evidence found.
- Jurisdiction palette: No verified New York jurisdiction palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.