No Town Tax increase in 2025, tax rate flat, all Town services maintained

NO TOWN TAX INCREASE FOR PITTSFORD IN 2025
Supervisor’s Budget holds tax rate flat; maintains all Town services 

Town Supervisor Bill Smith has presented a proposed Town Budget for 2025 that keeps the Town tax rate flat for a fifth consecutive year and maintains all current Town services.  The Town Board approved the 2025 Budget on November 19.  

"Notwithstanding the pinch of inflation, my budget for 2025 avoids a tax increase while maintaining funding for all of the Town’s services and events," said Supervisor Smith. 

Cumulatively since 2018, the budgets Supervisor Smith has presented to the Town Board for approval have cut the Town tax rate by more than 9%. The owner of a home of the average value in Pittsford, which is $302,000, will pay $946 in Town tax in 2025. For Pittsford residents, Town tax represents just 8 cents of every dollar paid in property tax. 

The Town recently received its fiscal report cards. Moody’s Investors Service reaffirmed Pittsford’s Triple-A credit rating – a perfect score and the highest rating possible. Pittsford is the only town in upstate New York to have a Triple-A rating. It's the only town of its size in America to have it. Higher than the credit rating of the State of New York; higher than the credit rating of the United States.   

In addition, the State Comptroller’s Office has given Pittsford a perfect score on its fiscal stress scale.  The Comptroller evaluates each Town in the State annually for fiscal stress, using a scale of 1 to 10. The more stress the higher the number. Pittsford’s Fiscal Stress Score was Zero – a perfect score. 

Details about the 2025 Pittsford Town budget can be found at www.townofpittsford.org/budgets.