Troy Mayor Carmella Mantello unveiled the city’s budget proposal over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Included in the plan is a 3.4% property tax increase. Troy leaders also included a water rate increase of $0.50 per 1,000 gallons.<\/p>\n
City officials say the move would support rising treatment costs and lead pipe replacement. Since 2024, they say more than 800 lead pipes have been replaced.<\/p>\n
A series of City Council budget meetings will be held, the first of which is set for Thursday. A meeting to vote on the budget is currently scheduled for December 1.<\/p>\n
“While I applaud the mayor’s budget, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the sound fiscal condition she inherited,” Troy City Council President Sue Steele said in a statement. “Unlike other area cities, the previous administration did not misuse American Rescue Plan monies to balance the city budget…Financial oversight is a core responsibility of the council and we will scrutinize the numbers on behalf of the taxpayers to ensure the math adds up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Mayor Carmella Mantello unveiled the city’s budget proposal over the weekend. Included in the plan is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,380],"class_list":["post-371432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}