Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – By the slimmest of margins, an eleventh-hour amended budget from Mayor Sean Ryan was narrowly approved by the Buffalo Common Council.
The amended $670 million 2026-27 budget passed 5-4, just hours before Ryan’s original $682 million budget – and its 25.8% property tax increase – would have taken effect come July 1.
“We had to make some very difficult decisions,” Ryan said…