Overview
Fulton County’s 2026 Adopted Budget appropriates $130,938,914 across all funds excluding inter-fund items ($135,462,184 including them). The General Fund accounts for $112,379,043 of appropriations excluding inter-fund items. The real estate tax levy is $35,958,136, against a total assessed value of $2,981,873,682 and an average county tax rate of $12.06 per $1,000.
Source: Fulton County 2026 Adopted Budget.
At a glance
Headline budget and funds
Budget balance (Summary C): revenues $85,237,451 + appropriated reserves $1,650,408 + appropriated fund balances $8,092,919 + real estate tax levy $35,958,136 = $130,938,914 in appropriations excluding inter-fund items. Exact.
| Revenues | $85,237,451 |
| Appropriated reserves | $1,650,408 |
| Appropriated fund balances | $8,092,919 |
| Real estate tax levy | $35,958,136 |
| Total appropriations (excl. inter-fund items) | $130,938,914 |
Appropriations by fund, excluding inter-fund items (Summary C) — sums exactly to $130,938,914; adding inter-fund appropriations of $4,523,270 gives the $135,462,184 total including inter-fund items.
| General Fund | $112,379,043 |
| Solid Waste | $9,848,773 |
| County Road | $6,334,260 |
| Road Machinery | $2,331,218 |
| Water District #1 | $0 |
| Sewer Districts #3 & #4 | $45,620 |
| Total appropriations (excl. inter-fund items) | $130,938,914 |
| Inter-fund appropriations | $4,523,270 |
| Total appropriations (incl. inter-fund items) | $135,462,184 |
Largest General Fund appropriations, department level — largest items only, not a sum-checked set.
| Social Service Programs | $37,018,972 |
| Sheriff | $16,076,890 |
| Unallocated Employee Benefits | $7,571,321 |
| Handicapped Children | $5,484,015 |
| Community Services | $4,077,301 |
| Emergency Management | $2,889,201 |
| Community Colleges | $2,345,821 |
| Office for Aging | $2,199,301 |
| Public Health | $2,169,341 |
| County Buildings | $2,039,173 |
Tax-limit context from the book: the 2026 tax levy subject to the tax limit is $34,987,726, against total taxing power of $75,735,993.
County officials
| Budget Director | Alicia Cowan (submitted the adopted budget) |
| County seat | Johnstown |
Sources & notes
- Only source used: Fulton County, New York, 2026 Adopted Budget (adopted November 2025). 2026 Adopted Budget.
- Spelling: the book spells the Budget Director’s name “Cowan”; the inventory record’s “Cowen” is not used.
- Sum checks: fund appropriations exact ($130,938,914); revenues + reserves + fund balances + levy exact ($85,237,451 + $1,650,408 + $8,092,919 + $35,958,136 = $130,938,914); including inter-fund appropriations exact ($130,938,914 + $4,523,270 = $135,462,184). The largest-General-Fund table is a largest-items list, not a sum-checked set.
- Hero photo: Fulton County Courthouse, Johnstown, New York — the county’s historic courthouse (built 1772). Photo: Beyond My Ken / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), source file. The credit is corroborated by the National Register listing for the courthouse and by news pages crediting the same courthouse photograph to Beyond My Ken; the downloaded image was visually verified against the courthouse’s documented appearance (late Georgian brick courthouse with cupola, Johnstown).
- 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.
