GLOVERSVILLE — The math says Gloversville must trim $2 million in spending to achieve a 2026 budget that doesn’t increase spending, but the math is a bit misleading.

Mayor Vincent DeSantis passed the $24.5 million in requests from department heads directly to City Council, and officials will meet next week with those managers to go through the budget line-by-line to reduce costs, which he attributes largely to increases in . That spending is up from a $22.5 million budget for 2025, but the city projects it will spend only $21.8 million.

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