Greenburgh Town Council Issues Statement on the 2026 Budget

Greenburgh Town Council | December 23, 2025

"The Town Council identified erroneous information and fiscal mismanagement in the Supervisor's 2026 Tentative Budget Message...

"Supervisor Feiner's budgets, year after year, since 2019, gave the appearance that funding was being collected and restricted for a courthouse, but the funds were never restricted for that purpose and were allowed to instead fall into the "A" fund balance, artificially and deceptively inflating the unrestricted fund balance...

"It appears Supervisor Feiner never intended the "RESERVE FOR COURTHOUSE" funds to be used for the courthouse...

"The Town Council is very concerned that Supervisor Feiner, in his role as CFO, aggressively pressured the new Comptroller until she got the tax rate increases in the A and B budgets under 3%. The only way to do that by the end of the day as demanded was to draw down fund balance to unacceptably low levels.

"The Town Council supports the Town Comptroller, has called for a forensic audit, and cannot condone ignoring the financial realities of operating a Town as complex as the Town of Greenburgh."

[FULL LETTER]