# Troy, NY 2027 Budget in Plain Numbers

> A plain-language explainer of the City of Troy, New York General Fund budget: the Mayor's proposed 2027 budget, adopted budgets 2019 to 2026, and audited savings 2014 to 2025. Every figure links to the exact pages of the city's own documents, excerpted without changes, and to the city's original on troyny.gov. Figures checked against city documents on 2026-10-10.

How the figures were checked: the 282-page 2027 proposed budget was transcribed line by line. Every line item was checked against the printed subtotals, and every subtotal against the department and fund totals. Where the city's own documents disagree with each other, the difference is reported, not corrected.

When citing this site, cite the city document named in each source link as well. The excerpts are the city's pages.

## Key facts

- 2027 proposed General Fund: $95,136,330, up 6.3% from the $89,460,323 adopted for 2026.
- City tax rate: $17.097573 per $1,000 of assessed value. About $2,565 a year on a $150,000 home, up about $85.
- Police ($28,286,612) and fire ($25,706,673) are 57% of General Fund spending.
- Unassigned General Fund savings: $10,807,220 at the end of 2025 (not yet audited). Total General Fund balance has stayed between $18.1 and $19.5 million since 2018.
- About $4.4 million of the 2027 plan budgets costs below, or income above, what actually happened in 2025.
- $11,445,708 of Troy's $42,879,140 federal ARPA allocation was unspent at March 31, 2026. The spending deadline is December 31, 2026.

## Pages

- [Full explainer](https://budgets.carmellafortroy.com/): charts, drop-down detail by department, and source links for every number
- [The facts, in plain text](https://budgets.carmellafortroy.com/facts.md): every figure on the site with its source, in Markdown

## Data

- [2027 proposed budget, every expenditure line](https://budgets.carmellafortroy.com/data/expenditures.csv): department, item, 2025 actual, 2026 budget, 2027 proposed
- [2027 proposed budget, revenues](https://budgets.carmellafortroy.com/data/revenues.csv)
- [2027 proposed budget, positions and salaries](https://budgets.carmellafortroy.com/data/personnel.csv)

## Sources

- [City of Troy 2027 Proposed Budget](https://troyny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3789)
- [City of Troy adopted budgets, 1975 to 2026](https://www.troyny.gov/Archive.aspx?AMID=37)
- [City of Troy audited financial statements](https://www.troyny.gov/Archive.aspx?AMID=40)
- [City of Troy annual financial reports to the State Comptroller](https://www.troyny.gov/Archive.aspx?AMID=39)
- [City of Troy quarterly financial reports](https://www.troyny.gov/Archive.aspx?AMID=38)
- [US Treasury SLFRF (ARPA) reporting data](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/April-2026-Reporting-Data-through-March-31-2026.xlsx)