Overview
Essex County, whose seat is Elizabethtown, adopted its 2026 budget on December 1, 2025 (Resolutions 281 and 282, unanimous). Total appropriations are $138,093,071 against estimated revenues of $106,882,434 and a projected tax levy of $29,000,000 (+2.21%). Revenues plus levy fall $2,210,637 short of appropriations; the source closing that gap is unstated in the cited documents and is disclosed, not filled in, on this page. This is the county dashboard — the Town of Elizabethtown is a separate government, and Essex County, New Jersey and Essex County, Ontario are different governments whose figures are not used here.
Sources: Notice of public hearing, 2026 tentative budget (November 12, 2025); December 1, 2025 Regular Board minutes, co.essex.ny.us (Resolutions 281/282).
At a glance — 2026 adopted
No figures match that search.
Headline budget
From the adopted 2026 budget (tentative adopted without amendment, December 1, 2025). Use the search box in At a glance to filter these figures, or download them as a CSV.
| Total appropriations, 2026 adopted | $138,093,071 |
| Estimated revenues | $106,882,434 |
| Projected tax levy (+2.21%) | $29,000,000 |
| Revenues + levy | $135,882,434 |
| Gap: appropriations minus revenues and levy (source unstated) | $2,210,637 |
| Adoption vote, Resolutions 281/282 | Unanimous 2544–0 |
Sources: Notice of public hearing, 2026 tentative budget; December 1, 2025 Regular Board minutes (Resolutions 281/282).
Breakdown — where the money comes from
No fund-by-fund breakdown was published in the cited documents, so none is invented here. This table shows the adopted build exactly as the documents state it, with the gap disclosed. Scroll sideways on a phone; the item column stays pinned.
| Item | Amount | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Total appropriations | $138,093,071 | Adopted |
| Estimated revenues | $106,882,434 | As published |
| Projected tax levy (+2.21%) | $29,000,000 | As published |
| Gap (fund-balance / transfer source unstated) | $2,210,637 | $138,093,071 − $135,882,434 |
Precedent disclosed: building with a disclosed gap follows the Franklin County precedent (a $572,200 gap disclosed on that page). The gap here is not closed by assumption.
Sources: Notice of public hearing, 2026 tentative budget; December 1, 2025 Regular Board minutes (Resolutions 281/282).
Board of Supervisors meetings
Meeting rules: Essex County Board of Supervisors rules of procedure (co.essex.ny.us).
Pattern: a regular meeting of the Board is held on the first Monday of each month, excluding January (if the first Monday is a legal holiday, the next succeeding business day), commencing at 10:00 a.m. at the Essex County Government Center, Elizabethtown. In December there is an additional meeting not earlier than the 20th day of the month.
Regular-pattern dates — check the official calendar for changes.
Elected officials
The budget was adopted by the Essex County Board of Supervisors (Resolutions 281 and 282, December 1, 2025). No individual supervisors are named in the cited budget passages, so no individual names are shown here rather than guessed.
Source: December 1, 2025 Regular Board minutes (Resolutions 281/282).
Sources & notes
- Sources used: Notice of public hearing, 2026 tentative budget (November 12, 2025) — hearing notice (PDF); December 1, 2025 Regular Board minutes, co.essex.ny.us (Resolutions 281/282, unanimous 2544–0, Stanley and Tyler absent); Board of Supervisors rules of procedure (meeting pattern).
- Sum checks: revenues + levy ($106,882,434 + $29,000,000 = $135,882,434); disclosed gap ($138,093,071 − $135,882,434 = $2,210,637).
- What is not claimed: the $2,210,637 gap's funding source is unstated and is not guessed. No fund breakdown, audit, or ACFR figure is shown: no fund split was published in the cited documents, and audits were not systematically retrieved in this research pass. No neighbor comparison, livability, housing, or schools section yet: those are built during New York's standard pass from verified state datasets. No sales-tax tracker: New York has no SPLOST-style program with a published project list for Essex County. Essex County, New Jersey and Essex County, Ontario figures were not used.
- Jurisdiction palette: No verified Essex County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.