utica budget

The first proposed budget by Mayor Michael Galime has been released and it includes a significant property tax increase for the residents in the City of Utica.

City representative seeks answers to million in federal funding that has gone unspent and questions why the administration won't shed light on upcoming projects as a budget decision looms.

Homeowners in Utica will see a slight reduction in their next city tax bill.

"We had to get our ship in order. We had to get fiscally sounds. Now we are, now we can start giving back to people'', Utica Comptroller Bill Morehouse on possible city tax decrease.

Utica city officials are touting a fifth consecutive budget surplus and a growing fund balance that they say is at it's highest level since the 1990's.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

Thursday, March 19th, 2015 Today we will talk to The Human Calculator, Scott Flansburg. We also talk with Lt. Steve Hauck about the incident of the bullets going through the woman's ceiling, and we play a new contest called The Music Game.

Members of the Utica Common Council were presented findings from the audit of the City of Utica's finances from the Bonadio Accounting Firm Wednesday night.

The audit of the city of Utica's finances for the 2013-14 fiscal year is complete and Comptroller Bill Morehouse and Mayor Rob Palmieri say the city has an operating budget surplus of $1.5 million.

The Utica Common Council Finance Committee is introducing a motion to vote against overriding the state mandated 2% Property Tax Cap law.