Village sales tax share for 2020 continues to drop with county formula
Photo by Tom Rivers: Downtown Medina, which includes about 100 businesses, welcomed several thousand people for fireworks and the Parade of Lights on Nov. 30.
ALBION – The sales tax apportionment for towns and villages for 2019 again shifts more money to the towns, at the expense of the villages in Orleans County.
The county receives about $17 million in sales tax annually, and shares $1,366,671 with the four villages and 10 towns. They have been frozen at that level since 2001.
Once a decade the town and village amounts are set based on local population. However, each year after that the share is modified based on the assessed values of towns with villages.
If a town with a village grows its tax base faster than the rate in a village, that town will get more sales tax – by getting more of the village’s. That is what has been happening almost every year since 2001. Most of the new development is just outside the village borders, or reassessments give the towns bigger increases than in the villages.
The villages saw their share take a hit by nearly $30,000 from 2013 to 2020, falling from $404,661 in 2013 to $375,620 in 2020.
Medina, after a taking a $4,998 hit in 2019, will get $825 more in 2020. Medina is the only village to get a little more in sales tax in 2020.
Here is the sales tax apportionment for 2020, a distribution approved by the County Legislature last week:
Villages – $375,620 in 2020 ($377,019 in 2019, and $382,240 in 2018)
Albion – $165,688 in 2020 ($167,181 in 2019, and $167,203 in 2018)
Holley – $45,051 in 2020 ($45,751 in 2019, and $45,878 in 2018)
Lyndonville – $15,243 in 2020 ($15,275 in 2019, $15,349 in 2018)
Medina – $149,638 in 2020 ($148,813 in 2019, and $153,811 in 2018)
Towns – $991,051 in 2020 ($989,651 in 2019, and $984,431 in 2018)
Albion – $123,143 in 2020 ($122,414 in 2019, and $122,468 in 2018)
Barre – $64,536 (no change because no village)
Carlton – $95,418 (no change because no village)
Clarendon – $116,261 (no change because no village)
Gaines – $88,698 in 2020 ($87,933 in 2019, and $87,858 in 2018)
Kendall – $86,813 (no change because no village)
Murray – $113,915 in 2020 ($113,215 in 2019, and $113,089 in 2018)
Ridgeway – $130,143 in 2020 ($130,272 in 2019, and $128,868 in 2018)
Shelby – $105,811 in 2020 ($106,506 in 2019, and $102,913 in 2018)
Yates – $66,312 in 2020 ($66,279 in 2019, and $66,206 in 2018)
The villages received more back in 2001, when the amount was frozen collectively to the 10 towns and four villages. The village share peaked at $211,669 for Albion in 2004 (down $45,981 to $165,688 in 2020). Medina dropped $23,954 from $173,592 in 2002 to $149,638 in 2020.
Holley hit a high of $62,549 in 2002 – 18 years later it’s down by $17,498 to $45,051. Lyndonville was at $18,592 in 2002 and has slid to $15,243 in 2020.
