Overview
Ulster County's adopted FY 2025 budget totals $446,273,475 across all funds, up from $411,974,090 adopted for FY 2024. The General Fund is $392,688,709 (88%), funded above all by non-property tax items ($183,956,000, chiefly sales tax), state aid ($68,702,766), real property taxes ($39,601,385), federal aid ($37,186,452), and appropriated fund balance ($34,725,493). The county's population in the book is 182,153, and the City of Kingston is the county seat.
At a glance — adopted budget FY 2025
Source: Ulster County 2025 Adopted Operating Budget, fund summaries.
Headline budget
Appropriations by fund, FY 2025 adopted (sums exactly to $446,273,475).
| General Fund | $392,688,709 |
| County Road Fund | $21,568,697 |
| Debt Service Fund | $14,545,779 |
| Self Insurance Fund | $9,526,648 |
| Road Machinery Fund | $4,427,390 |
| Special Grants Fund | $3,516,252 |
| Housing Action Fund | $0 |
| Total, all funds | $446,273,475 |
General Fund revenues by source, FY 2025 adopted (sums exactly to $392,688,709).
| Non-property tax items | $183,956,000 |
| State aid | $68,702,766 |
| Real property taxes | $39,601,385 |
| Federal aid | $37,186,452 |
| Appropriated fund balance | $34,725,493 |
| Departmental income | $9,425,466 |
| Use of money and property | $7,580,682 |
| Real property tax items | $4,580,000 |
| Intrafund revenues | $2,273,126 |
| Intergovernmental charges | $1,905,146 |
| Miscellaneous local sources | $1,323,140 |
| Licenses and permits | $534,113 |
| Fines and forfeitures | $481,840 |
| Sale of property and compensation for loss | $403,550 |
| Interfund revenues | $9,550 |
| Appropriated reserves | $0 |
| Total General Fund revenues | $392,688,709 |
Source: Ulster County 2025 Adopted Operating Budget, General Fund summary.
Breakdown
General Fund expenditures by expense object, FY 2025 adopted (sums exactly to $392,688,709).
| Miscellaneous contractual expense | $140,213,964 |
| Regular pay | $94,241,577 |
| Health insurance | $25,462,834 |
| Professional services | $25,669,628 |
| Distribution of sales tax | $25,447,500 |
| Retirement | $16,911,984 |
| Debt principal | $11,768,532 |
| Social Security / FICA | $8,665,727 |
| Part time pay | $6,350,136 |
| Contractual pays | $5,899,324 |
| Overtime pay | $5,292,767 |
| Supplies | $3,948,726 |
| Building maintenance and repair | $3,868,888 |
| Maintenance | $3,237,677 |
| Insurance | $3,207,680 |
| Workers' compensation | $2,779,756 |
| Leases / rental | $1,803,905 |
| Intra-county charges | $1,552,439 |
| Other equipment and capital outlays | $1,510,524 |
| Debt interest | $1,363,222 |
| Employee payments | $1,073,150 |
| Computer equipment | $948,293 |
| Conference expenses | $566,055 |
| Travel | $431,650 |
| Vehicles | $205,000 |
| Office equipment | $186,750 |
| Law enforcement special activities | $123,000 |
| Other benefits | $80,000 |
| Unemployment insurance | $65,000 |
| Payroll reduction | ($2,153,000) |
| Interfund transfers | $0 |
| Total General Fund expenditures | $392,688,709 |
Levy context: the FY 2025 adopted real property tax levy of $39,601,385 is $3,776,667 below the FY 2024 adopted figure of $43,378,052 shown in the same summary.
Source: Ulster County 2025 Adopted Operating Budget, General Fund expense objects.
Elected officials
As named in the cited budget book.
| County Executive | Jen Metzger |
No County Legislature roster is given in the cited summary pages, so no legislator names are shown.
Sources & notes
- Only source used: Ulster County, 2025 Adopted Operating Budget. 2025 Adopted Operating Budget.
- Sum checks: all-funds table exact ($446,273,475); General Fund revenues exact ($392,688,709); General Fund expense objects exact ($392,688,709).
- What is not claimed: the $40,601,385 department-detail rendering is not used (see basis notice); the Housing Action Fund's $2,000,000 is its FY 2024 figure, not FY 2025; the SUNY Ulster 2025-26 budget is a different entity and is not used.
- 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.