The Ulster Town Board last week adopted a $17.3 million budget for 2026. The spending plan comes with a 0.6 percent tax levy increase, well below the 3.2 percent anticipated just two weeks earlier.

Local resident Regis Obijiski credited the town board with welcoming community input as the budget took shape. “From our reading of the budget changes you are considering this evening, the final version of the 2026 budget is indicative of three important things,” Obijiski said. “One, your keen listening skills with the citizens and employees of this wonderful town. Two, your desire to do the right thing with the people’s money. And three, your technical expertise with a sharpened pencil … The town, with the able technical support of our comptroller, has after two weeks’ review of the people’s r

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