No Elba residents attended the Village Board meeting last night were the board unanimously approved a 2009-2010 budget.
General fund spending decreases by 5 percent, according to Village Clerk/Treasurer Beverly Hillabush. The water fund is down 5 percent and the sewer fund is down 1 percent.
"The decrease is due mostly to paying off a fire truck," Hillabush said.
Meanwhile, tax collections will be up slightly, to $73,275, though the village tax rate remains unchanged, at $3.25 per $1,000 of assessed value.
There was an increase in spending in the youth program, Hillabush said, because the village has decided to split its youth program from the Town of Elba's program. Hillabush explained that the town wanted to add more programs that the village didn't think it could afford. "We just couldn't come to terms," she said.
The village programs will be open to all students in the Elba Central School District.
