Overview
Montgomery County, whose seat is Fonda, adopted its 2026 budget on November 18, 2025 (Resolution 266 of 2025, as amended, 8 ayes) after a three-amendment sequence recorded in the official minutes. Total appropriations are $163,868,929 against total revenues of $119,860,458 and a tax levy of $32,341,023 (+2.27%, +$718,854). Revenues plus levy fall $11,667,448 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 Village of Fonda is a separate government, and Montgomery County, Maryland and Montgomery County, Virginia are different governments whose figures are not used here.
Sources: Official minutes (printed November 19, 2025); November 18, 2025 adoption account.
At a glance — 2026 adopted
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Headline budget
From the adopted 2026 budget (Resolution 266 of 2025, as amended). Use the search box in At a glance to filter these figures, or download them as a CSV.
| Total appropriations, 2026 adopted | $163,868,929 |
| Total revenues | $119,860,458 |
| Tax levy (+2.27%, +$718,854) | $32,341,023 |
| Revenues + levy | $152,201,481 |
| Gap: appropriations minus revenues and levy (source unstated) | $11,667,448 |
| Base appropriations before amendments | $163,992,407 |
| Base levy before amendments | $32,484,339 |
| Appropriations after Majewski corrections | $163,848,583 |
| Levy after Majewski corrections | $32,320,677 |
| Kelly strikes | $134,284 |
| Adoption vote | 8 ayes |
Sources: Official minutes (printed November 19, 2025); November 18, 2025 adoption account.
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 minutes state it, with the gap disclosed. Scroll sideways on a phone; the item column stays pinned.
| Item | Amount | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Total appropriations | $163,868,929 | Adopted as amended |
| Total revenues | $119,860,458 | As published |
| Tax levy (+2.27%, +$718,854) | $32,341,023 | As published |
| Gap (fund-balance / transfer source unstated) | $11,667,448 | $163,868,929 − $152,201,481 |
Why the Pepe figure is the adopted figure: the November 18 adoption account independently confirms three amendments and an approximately 2.27% levy increase, matching the Pepe figure and resolving the prior open question between the amendment steps.
Sources: Official minutes (printed November 19, 2025, containing the amendment sequence); November 18, 2025 adoption account.
Legislature meetings
Agendas and packets: Montgomery County, meeting agendas / packets. Rules: 2026 Rules of Procedure.
Pattern: under the 2026 Rules, the Legislature holds committee meetings on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. and regular meetings on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the Legislative Chambers. The county's agenda list confirms the pattern in practice (regular meetings August 25, September 22, and October 27, 2026, all at 6:00 p.m.).
Disclosed superseded time: older rules of procedure stated 7:00 p.m. for regular meetings; the current 2026 Rules and the county's own 2026 agenda list agree on 6:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. is the time used here.
Regular-pattern dates — check the official calendar for changes.
Elected officials
The budget was adopted by the Montgomery County Legislature (Resolution 266 of 2025, as amended, 8 ayes). No full roster of legislators is named in the cited budget passages, so no individual names are shown here rather than guessed.
Sources & notes
- Sources used: Official minutes (printed November 19, 2025, containing the amendment sequence) — minutes (PDF); November 18, 2025 adoption account — adoption account; 2026 Rules of Procedure and meeting agenda list (meeting pattern).
- Sum checks: revenues + levy ($119,860,458 + $32,341,023 = $152,201,481); disclosed gap ($163,868,929 − $152,201,481 = $11,667,448); Kelly strikes ($56,969 + $57,986 + $19,329 = $134,284).
- What is not claimed: the $11,667,448 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 Montgomery County. Montgomery County, Maryland and Montgomery County, Virginia figures were not used.
- Jurisdiction palette: No verified Montgomery County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.