Solvay property owners will likely see a slight bump in their property taxes, but it could have been worse.

The village’s tentative 2009-10 budget calls for a tax rate of $11.82 per $1,000 of assessed property, a 6 cent increase over last year’s $11.76.

At the end of the 2007-08 fiscal year, the village had a budget deficit of roughly $182,000, comptroller Michael Fecco said. But Fecco said he expects the village to finish about $75,000 in the black this fiscal year, and that money will be applied to the amount needed to be raised by taxes.

When asked how the village erased its deficit, Fecco said, “Basically, less spending.”

“We did increase the fees for codes (violations), and that brought in $30,000 to $35,000,” Fecco said. “But mostly it was cutting a little here and there and reducing spending.”

Solvay and the other five villages in the western suburbs of Onondaga County will hold public hearings on their tentative budgets between today and April 13. The budgets (and the numbers listed below) are tentative and likely to change as the village boards work on them.

A village board has until April 30 to approve a final budget, or else the most recent budget will become the final budget.

Here’s a look at budget information available as of noon Monday for the villages in the western suburbs:

Camillus

Tentative budget: $1,120,486.

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