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The three percent January sales tax distribution in Herkimer County totaled $4,838,656.51, an increase of $28,053.89 from the January 2011 distribution.
The total distribution to the 19 towns was $59,120.83 more than a year ago, with the 10 villages receiving $33,554.54 more, the city of Little Falls receiving an additional $12,317.78 in sales tax revenue and the county receiving $76,939.26 less for the quarter than in 2011.
“For the year sales tax was up 1.16 percent, which was very good news,” county Administrator James Wallace, Jr. said during a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon, adding county budget officials had originally projected sales tax to remain flat. “The increase is encouraging.”
Wallace said the roughly $434,000 in additional moneys will be added to the county’s fund balance, which will not only help balance future budgets, but maintain lower property taxes.
“Ending the year with a healthy fund balance is a real positive,” he said.
Herkimer County Treasurer Kimberlee Enea said the decrease in the amount of sales tax revenue distributed to the county in the quarter was a product of how the calculations were figured.
“The state provides us with the calculations and we follow them as to how the sales tax revenue is to be distributed,” said Enea during a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon. “The county does not have prior knowledge of the calculations prior to the quarter, so there are times when the county might receive less in a particular quarter. That is what is happened in this quarter.”
Distribution to the municipalities to the nearest dollar for the quarter is as follows:
City
•Little Falls: $214,352.48
Towns
•Columbia: $33,830.37
•Danube: $23,114.16
•Fairfield: $31,637.86
•Frankfort: $132,559.97
•German Flatts: $65,408.94
•Herkimer: $75,226.66
•Litchfield: $33,666.36
•Little Falls: $36,508.28
•Manheim: $45,834.40
•Newport: $35,122.13
•Norway: $18,701.42
•Ohio: $48,424.39
•Russia: $54,399.80
•Salisbury: $47,476.59
•Schuyler: $74,256.74
•Stark: $18,229.17
•Warren: $27,195.56
•Webb: $345,997.78
•Winfield: $32,212.65
Total town distribution: $1,179,803.23
Villages
•Cold Brook: $6,006.66
•Dolgeville: $27,831.95
•Frankfort: $36,820.83
•Herkimer: $126,970.29
•Ilion: $142,895.02
•Middleville: $8,624.93
•Mohawk: $47,609.29
•Newport: $10,802.49
•Poland: $12,065.61
•West Winfield: $13,293.92
Total village distribution: $432,920.99
The total distribution to the county was $3,011,579.81.
The county distribution included $250,000 for a highway reserve fund.
The one percent withheld for Medicaid totaled $1,613,782.89 for the quarter, $135,230.64 more than the amount withheld for the county’s Medicaid costs in the January 2011 disbursement.
The quarter percent withheld for the construction of a new county correctional facility totaled $403,445.73 for the quarter, $33,807.67 more than the amount withheld in January 2011.
The three percent January sales tax distribution in Herkimer County totaled $4,838,656.51, an increase of $28,053.89 from the January 2011 distribution.
The total distribution to the 19 towns was $59,120.83 more than a year ago, with the 10 villages receiving $33,554.54 more, the city of Little Falls receiving an additional $12,317.78 in sales tax revenue and the county receiving $76,939.26 less for the quarter than in 2011.
“For the year sales tax was up 1.16 percent, which was very good news,” county Administrator James Wallace, Jr. said during a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon, adding county budget officials had originally projected sales tax to remain flat. “The increase is encouraging.”
Wallace said the roughly $434,000 in additional moneys will be added to the county’s fund balance, which will not only help balance future budgets, but maintain lower property taxes.
“Ending the year with a healthy fund balance is a real positive,” he said.
Herkimer County Treasurer Kimberlee Enea said the decrease in the amount of sales tax revenue distributed to the county in the quarter was a product of how the calculations were figured.
“The state provides us with the calculations and we follow them as to how the sales tax revenue is to be distributed,” said Enea during a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon. “The county does not have prior knowledge of the calculations prior to the quarter, so there are times when the county might receive less in a particular quarter. That is what is happened in this quarter.”
Distribution to the municipalities to the nearest dollar for the quarter is as follows:
City
•Little Falls: $214,352.48
Towns
•Columbia: $33,830.37
•Danube: $23,114.16
•Fairfield: $31,637.86
•Frankfort: $132,559.97
•German Flatts: $65,408.94
•Herkimer: $75,226.66
•Litchfield: $33,666.36
•Little Falls: $36,508.28
•Manheim: $45,834.40
•Newport: $35,122.13
•Norway: $18,701.42
•Ohio: $48,424.39
•Russia: $54,399.80
•Salisbury: $47,476.59
•Schuyler: $74,256.74
•Stark: $18,229.17
•Warren: $27,195.56
•Webb: $345,997.78
•Winfield: $32,212.65
Total town distribution: $1,179,803.23
Villages
•Cold Brook: $6,006.66
•Dolgeville: $27,831.95
•Frankfort: $36,820.83
•Herkimer: $126,970.29
•Ilion: $142,895.02
•Middleville: $8,624.93
•Mohawk: $47,609.29
•Newport: $10,802.49
•Poland: $12,065.61
•West Winfield: $13,293.92
Total village distribution: $432,920.99
The total distribution to the county was $3,011,579.81.
The county distribution included $250,000 for a highway reserve fund.
The one percent withheld for Medicaid totaled $1,613,782.89 for the quarter, $135,230.64 more than the amount withheld for the county’s Medicaid costs in the January 2011 disbursement.
The quarter percent withheld for the construction of a new county correctional facility totaled $403,445.73 for the quarter, $33,807.67 more than the amount withheld in January 2011.
