Overview
The City of Utica, New York, adopted its 2026-2027 budget on March 19, 2026, by Ordinance #48 of 2026. The General Fund, Council Approved for FY2027, spends $94,009,126 against revenues of $94,009,126 — a balanced General Fund. On the same book pages, the comparisons printed are: department-requested expenditures $95,672,651; Mayor / Estimate & Apportionment expenditures $93,303,784; and FY2026 Council expenditures $91,396,163. The Council Approved General Fund therefore sits above the Mayor / Estimate & Apportionment figure and below the department-requested figure. No printed all-funds total exists in the book, so this page reports funds individually and never adds them into a total. The tax picture is unsettled in the documents themselves: the adopted ordinance's Tax Budget, the book's TAX INFORMATION table, and the General Fund detail's real property tax line give three different figures (see Levy & tax rates), and this page reports all three rather than picking one. This is the City of Utica, New York — not Utica, Michigan, not the Utica City School District, and not the Utica Urban Renewal Agency.
Source: 2026-2027 Common Council Approved Budget, April 1, 2026; Ordinance #48 of 2026; City of Utica; City of Utica Budget Information.
At a glance — FY2027 adopted
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General Fund expenditure comparisons printed on the same book page: department-requested $95,672,651; Mayor / Estimate & Apportionment $93,303,784; FY2026 Council $91,396,163. No printed all-funds total exists in the book, so none is shown here.
Levy & tax rates
The documents do not reconcile these figures — read all three tax figures together. Use the search box in At a glance to filter these figures, or download them as a CSV.
| Adopted Tax Budget (Ordinance #48 of 2026) | $36,194,400 |
| Total Tax Levy (book TAX INFORMATION table, PDF p. 4) | $37,244,032 |
| Taxes Available for Budget Purposes (book TAX INFORMATION table) | $36,685,371 |
| Real Property Taxes, Council Approved (General Fund detail, book p. 1) | $35,801,484 |
| Tax rate per thousand (book TAX INFORMATION table) | $32.6888910 |
| Tax rate per thousand, 2025-2026 (prior year, same table) | $31.7676351 |
| Assessed valuation | $1,139,348,274 |
| State Equalization rate | 37.0% |
| Full valuation | $3,079,319,659 |
The TAX INFORMATION table's Taxes Available figure, $36,685,371, matches the Mayor / Estimate & Apportionment column of the General Fund detail — NOT the Council Approved column ($35,801,484). The General Fund detail's Council Approved real property taxes break down as: 1st installment $17,825,742 + 2nd installment $8,912,871 + 3rd installment $8,912,871 + prior years' tax revenue $150,000 = $35,801,484. The TAX INFORMATION rate, $32.6888910 per thousand, is above the 2025-2026 rate of $31.7676351, so the table does not support a 0% rate-increase reading. No single levy figure is presented as the levy on this page: the adopted ordinance figure ($36,194,400), the TAX INFORMATION levy ($37,244,032), and the General Fund detail figure ($35,801,484) stand side by side, unreconciled, exactly as the documents leave them.
Source: Ordinance #48 of 2026; 2026-2027 Common Council Approved Budget (TAX INFORMATION, PDF p. 4; General Fund detail, book p. 1). Sum check (machine-verified): $17,825,742 + $8,912,871 + $8,912,871 + $150,000 = $35,801,484.
Spending by fund
The table below reproduces the FY2027 Council Approved figures from the book pages cited. Amounts are revenue totals unless the Basis column says otherwise. There is deliberately NO total row: the book prints no all-funds total, and summing these funds would double-count interfund transfers. Scroll sideways on a phone; the fund column stays pinned.
| Fund | FY2027 Council Approved | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| General Fund | $94,009,126 | Expenditures (book p. 100); revenues equal, $94,009,126 (book p. 18) |
| 52nd Year CDBG (UED) | $3,612,786 | Revenue total (book p. 101) |
| Section 8 | $9,997,550 | Revenue total (book p. 110) |
| Golf | $623,000 | Revenue total (book p. 115) |
| Urban Renewal | $304,400 | Revenue total, city-book line (book p. 117) — NOT the separate Urban Renewal Agency report |
| Sewer | $4,499,456 | Revenue total (book p. 119) |
| Self Insurance | $14,050,000 | Revenue total (book p. 123) |
| Debt Service | $3,558,874 | Transfer from General (book p. 124) |
| Paving | — | No FY2027 paving total is given; book p. 126 covers 2025 paving only |
Source: 2026-2027 Common Council Approved Budget, April 1, 2026 (book pages as cited per row).
Sources & notes
- Sources used: “2026-2027 Common Council Approved Budget,” City of Utica, New York, April 1, 2026, 131 pp. — budget book (PDF) (General Fund expenditures book p. 100 / PDF p. 105; General Fund revenues book p. 18 / PDF p. 23; TAX INFORMATION PDF p. 4; General Fund detail book p. 1; fund pages 101, 110, 115, 117, 119, 123, 124, 126 as cited per row); Ordinance #48 of 2026 (Pro. Ord. 1, “Annual Estimate 2026-2027”), adopted March 19, 2026, vote 6-3, with the March 19, 2026 Special Meeting Minutes — ordinance text (PDF); City of Utica entry links — cityofutica.com and Budget Information.
- No printed all-funds total: the book prints no all-funds total, so this page shows none and does not sum the funds. Interfund transfers (for example General to Debt Service and to Self Insurance) would double-count in any such sum.
- Tax figures, unreconciled: the adopted Tax Budget ($36,194,400, Ordinance #48), the TAX INFORMATION Total Tax Levy ($37,244,032) and Taxes Available ($36,685,371), and the General Fund detail's Council Approved real property taxes ($35,801,484) do not agree with each other. The TAX INFORMATION Taxes Available figure matches the Mayor / Estimate & Apportionment column, not the Council Approved column. The printed rate ($32.6888910) exceeds the 2025-2026 rate ($31.7676351), so no 0% rate-increase reading is supported by the table.
- Sum check (machine-verified): $17,825,742 + $8,912,871 + $8,912,871 + $150,000 = $35,801,484.
- What is not claimed: no fund-balance figure is shown — no fund-balance line was verified from the cited pages, and none is invented here. Livability, housing, schools, and neighbor comparison come in New York's standard pass (recovery pattern, not a defect). Meetings: section skipped. No verified Council meeting pattern was on file for this build, so there is no meetings section on this page. No hero photo: no verified freely-licensed Utica, New York photo was confirmed for this build (the Commons candidates checked did not carry a confirmed license in their fetched source pages), so the page is photo-less rather than carrying a stock or wrong-place image. No widgets beyond table search + CSV: no calculator or tracker widget is built here — no verified widget inputs for those were on file for this unit. No jurisdiction palette: this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme; a homepage-sample re-theme is a colors-pass item, not part of this build, and no palette was invented here.
- Jurisdiction identity: City of Utica, New York (Common Council) — not Utica, Michigan, not the Utica City School District, and not the Utica Urban Renewal Agency as a separate reporting entity. No material from any of those governments is used on this page.