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Village of Liverpool — Where the Money Comes From and Goes

The actual Village of Liverpool budget — not a county proxy. Every New York village files an Annual Financial Report with the State Comptroller; this is Liverpool's own ledger, by revenue source and by function, for the fiscal year ending 2025-05-31 (the village runs June 1–May 31). Municipal code 310473902750, Onondaga County.

$3,907,885

total revenue FY2025

$3,840,624

total expenditure FY2025

+$67,261

rev minus exp

years on file

Source: NYS Office of the State Comptroller, Financial Data for Local Governments (village-class bulk export; the same data behind Open Book New York and the OSC Local Government Interactive Data tool). Figures are the village's self-reported Annual Financial Report line items, summed in code from account-level records. Spending public money is the job of a village — this maps where it comes from and where it goes, so residents can read it. Documented facts and open questions.

Where the money comes from — revenue by source, FY2025

Liverpool's own revenue, by category. The share of the budget that is local property tax versus state aid versus fees tells you who the village answers to for its money.

amount%revenue source

$2,238,78257%Real Property Taxes and Assessments

$520,09913%Other Local Revenues

$480,03412%State Aid

$297,9268%Charges for Services

$163,7264%Use and Sale of Property

$59,5622%Sales and Use Tax

$54,9681%Other Sources

$40,6331%Federal Aid

$34,4081%Other Non-Property Taxes

$15,1320%Other Real Property Tax Items

$2,6150%Charges to Other Governments

Where the money goes — expenditure by function, FY2025

What the village actually buys with that money, by function. The largest functions are where contracts, payroll, and procurement decisions concentrate — the lines worth asking the village clerk to itemize.

amount%function

$978,74125%Public Safety

$814,33421%Employee Benefits

$681,82418%Transportation

$612,28016%General Government

$192,8155%Economic Development

$167,3404%Sanitation

$138,1314%Culture and Recreation

$108,8353%Debt Service

$91,3572%Community Services

$54,9671%Other Uses

The trend — revenue vs. expenditure by year

Multiple fiscal years from the same OSC export. A village that consistently spends more than it takes in, or leans harder each year on one revenue source, is a question for the next budget hearing.

fiscal yrrevenueexpenditurerev − exp

FY2025$3,907,885$3,840,624+$67,261

FY2024$4,166,854$4,112,515+$54,339

FY2023$3,487,237$3,396,281+$90,956

FY2022$3,473,400$3,182,131+$291,269

FY2021$3,043,697$2,744,009+$299,688

FY2020$2,735,630$2,770,497−$34,867

FY2019$2,870,194$3,030,750−$160,556

FY2018$2,842,838$2,812,228+$30,610

FY2017$2,867,111$2,721,289+$145,822

FY2016$2,620,358$2,516,710+$103,648

The question. This is village-level money at last — Liverpool's own AFR, not the Onondaga-County proxy that stood here before. The named gaps that still need the village clerk: the actual check register / vendor payments (who specifically is paid, by name), the adopted budget vs. actuals, and any capital-project contracts. Those are a New York FOIL request to the Village of Liverpool Clerk, 43 Second Street, Liverpool NY 13088 — or the village site villageofliverpool.org. Read this ledger beside who funds the trustees who adopt it.

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