2025 Budget

2025 Proposed Budget

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz released his 2025 Proposed Budget on October 15th 2024.  He is recommending a county funding increase of $1,271,947 (4.3%) to libraries. The additional funding will help offset inflation related impacts on library operating costs, including contractually obligated labor costs, costs of supplies in this challenging fiscal environment.  

County funding of $30,947,322 combined with New York State operating aid funding of $2,460,929, use of $839,804 in Library fund balance, and $421,373 in other library revenue, brings the Library’s 2025 proposed operating budget to $34,669,428; a 4.7% increase over the 2024 County Adopted Budget.  In addition to the operating budget, $601,418 in estimated state aid is included in the Library Grants Budget.

Erie County’s 2025 Proposed Capital Budget supports improvements to the county owned downtown Central Library and to system related improvements, specifically: 

$1,000,000 in bonded funds for Central Library Building Envelope Improvements 

$3,500,000 in “bonded funds for a Various Improvements & Upgrades

We are extremely grateful to County Executive Mark Poloncarz and the Erie County Legislature for their support of libraries, especially during these challenging times.

The next event in the budget review process will be the Library’s budget hearing before the Erie County Legislature’s Finance & Management/Budget Committee expected to be scheduled for a date in approximately mid-November.  A public hearing/comment opportunity on the overall County Budget is expected to be scheduled later in November.  This page will be updated once dates and times are finalized.  The Legislature’s deliberations will continue until their vote on the proposed budget, scheduled for December 1st.  Should there be any vetoes, the Legislature has scheduled a veto override vote on December 13th.

Information on the proposed budget may be found in the links below.  This page will be updated as the budget process moves forward.

Erie County Proposed Budget Document Excerpts - Library Operating, Grants & Capital (Click Here)