Civic Finance

Budgets, levies, debt, fund balance and fiscal-stress data for local governments and school districts, straight from state filings.

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Town of Germantown

Town · Columbia County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 100332600000

Population 1,890 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 1,933) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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AFR not filed in time for FSMS score

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities); last filed in time for a score: 2022. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of GermantownPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$794$1,10623rd114AFR 2024, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$314$57913th114AFR 2024 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$1,006$41579th97AFR 2024 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending12%3.9%96th114AFR 2024 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue12.9%10.6%61st114AFR 2024 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue31.3%7.1%93rd114AFR 2024 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years40.8%27.3%82nd111AFR 2020–2024 (our calc)
Levy growth1.2%14.4%10th1142021–2026 OSC tax tables

Percentile = share of same-class peers in the region with a lower value. A high or low percentile is context, not a judgment. Sales tax for towns and villages is county distribution revenue.

Five-year picture

Operating funds: revenue vs. spending RevenueSpending
$0k$473k$947k$1.4M$1.9M201920202021202220232024Revenue 2019: $1.7MRevenue 2020: $1.5MRevenue 2021: $1.7MRevenue 2022: $1.8MRevenue 2023: $1.9MRevenue 2024: $1.8MSpending 2019: $1.3MSpending 2020: $1.1MSpending 2021: $1.0MSpending 2022: $1.4MSpending 2023: $1.4MSpending 2024: $1.5M

Our calculation from OSC AFR account data: all funds except custodial (T*), capital projects (H), fixed-asset (K) and long-term debt (W) groups, excluding interfund transfers and debt proceeds.

General fund surplus / deficit General fund result (incl. transfers)
$0k$106k$212k$318k$424k201920202021202220232024General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $285kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $424kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $366kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $390kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $389kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $313k

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

Debt Debt outstandingDebt service
$0k$588k$1.2M$1.8M$2.4M201920202021202220232024Debt outstanding 2019: $1.9MDebt outstanding 2020: $2.2MDebt outstanding 2021: $2.4MDebt outstanding 2022: $2.2MDebt outstanding 2023: $2.1MDebt outstanding 2024: $1.9MDebt service 2019: $174kDebt service 2020: $85kDebt service 2021: $163kDebt service 2022: $171kDebt service 2023: $181kDebt service 2024: $181k

Year-end debt outstanding (OSC AFR debt detail) and debt service expenditures (OSC AFR).

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$148k$297k$445k$594k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $587kTotal levy 2022: $587kTotal levy 2023: $587kTotal levy 2024: $587kTotal levy 2025: $587kTotal levy 2026: $594k

Levy as reported in OSC's annual tax tables for the year shown.

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20195 No DesignationFY20205 No DesignationFY20210 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 Not filedFY20240 Not filedFY20250 Not Filed

OSC's own scores and designations. 'Not filed' rows mean the AFR was not filed in time to be scored.

Annual Financial Report series

YearOperating revenueOperating spendingGF revenue (incl. transfers)GF spending (incl. transfers)Property taxSales taxState aidDebt serviceDebt outstandingSource
2019 (FYE 2019-12-31)$1,657,054$1,334,861$940,759$655,276$613,584$412,895$254,962$174,199$1,907,519afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$1,512,933$1,066,314$1,025,565$601,104$614,650$425,491$147,349$84,800$2,196,389afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$1,725,661$1,039,799$1,038,981$673,176$594,427$519,004$266,329$162,819$2,350,880afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$1,829,719$1,407,292$988,581$598,949$592,502$578,706$300,609$171,032$2,204,569afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$1,893,206$1,355,296$997,765$609,061$593,746$599,552$266,924$180,957$2,053,638afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,820,872$1,501,038$928,482$615,542$593,409$569,382$235,757$180,712$1,901,088afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30

Operating and property-tax figures are our sums of OSC account-level data (independent calculation, not OSC's own totals); GF = general fund (A). No AFR data in OSC bulk files for 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$573,004$586,735$586,735$02.4%No
2020$586,735$586,735$599,008$12,2730%No
2021$586,735$586,735$604,873$18,1380%No
2022$586,735$586,735$608,201$21,4660%No
2023$586,735$586,735$614,296$27,5610%No
2024$586,735$586,735$614,207$27,4720%No
2025$586,735$586,735$610,256$23,5210%No
2026$586,735$593,937$603,495$9,5581.2%No

Source: taxcap ⓘ, snapshot 10/09/2026. Highlighted rows: proposed levy above the computed limit. Filings are as submitted to OSC before budget adoption; a later fiscal year that has not been filed yet does not appear.

OSC Fiscal Stress Monitoring System

FYStress designationFiscal scoreEnvironmental ratingEnv. scoreSource
2019No Designation5No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation5No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation0fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation0fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023Not filed–––fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024Not filed–––fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025Not Filed–––fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ
Filing status

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities). Last filed in time for a score: 2022. fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

No OSC audits matched by name for this entity (osc-audits ⓘ).

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/columbia-county/germantown.json