Rome, NY takes in about 3% more each year and spends about 8% more. In 2023 the space between those two lines was $2,839,000. In 2025 it was $88,000. This episode starts back in the room on October 8, 2025, the one night all year the public hearing fills up. Residents argued over 2.59%, about $33 a year on a home assessed at $62,046, roughly nine cents a day. They also argued that the city increase doesn't arrive alone, stacked on top of a county increase and a school increase. Both of those things are true at the same time.