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 Hillsdale

Town · Columbia County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 100339400000

Population 1,811 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 1,841) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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Low fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 4.7% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold < 5%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of HillsdalePeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,759$1,10683rd114AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$572$57948th114AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$237$41531st97AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending1.2%3.9%21st114AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue34.3%10.6%99th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue18%7.1%79th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)4.7%40.1%2nd104OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years68.8%27.3%96th111AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth3%14.4%14th1142021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)19.23.395th97OSC FSMS FY2025

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$804k$1.6M$2.4M$3.2M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $2.3MRevenue 2020: $2.0MRevenue 2021: $2.4MRevenue 2022: $2.4MRevenue 2023: $2.7MRevenue 2024: $2.6MRevenue 2025: $3.2MSpending 2019: $1.8MSpending 2020: $1.7MSpending 2021: $1.9MSpending 2022: $2.3MSpending 2023: $2.6MSpending 2024: $3.0MSpending 2025: $3.2M

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)
$-538k$-341k$-145k$52k$249k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $72kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $170kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $249kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $144kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $105kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-538kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-103k

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$217k$434k$650k$867k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $867kDebt outstanding 2020: $776kDebt outstanding 2021: $698kDebt outstanding 2022: $620kDebt outstanding 2023: $540kDebt outstanding 2024: $460kDebt outstanding 2025: $429kDebt service 2019: $76kDebt service 2020: $93kDebt service 2021: $81kDebt service 2022: $81kDebt service 2023: $81kDebt service 2024: $81kDebt service 2025: $40k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$263k$527k$790k$1.1M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $1.0MTotal levy 2022: $1.0MTotal levy 2023: $1.0MTotal levy 2024: $1.0MTotal levy 2025: $1.0MTotal levy 2026: $1.1M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202367.9%FY202425.6%FY20254.7%

Assigned + unassigned general fund balance ÷ gross expenditures, as computed by OSC.

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20193.3 No DesignationFY20203.3 No DesignationFY20210 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20243.3 No DesignationFY202519.2 No Designation

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)$2,289,058$1,809,654$657,678$585,567$1,028,527$406,681$631,582$76,343$867,090afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$2,001,092$1,673,291$653,340$483,483$1,036,959$405,735$307,089$92,802$775,558afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$2,423,207$1,887,081$912,843$664,118$1,035,646$526,217$584,707$81,379$698,024afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$2,421,808$2,347,564$867,590$723,435$1,029,831$547,319$505,366$81,379$619,557afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$2,697,778$2,575,711$1,027,520$922,745$1,041,387$551,705$588,009$81,378$540,139afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$2,614,359$3,031,025$893,636$1,431,699$1,033,284$538,501$516,903$81,379$459,750afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$3,217,797$3,186,259$993,403$1,096,204$1,035,514$580,762$1,102,182$39,628$429,100afr-2025 ⓘ · debt-2025 ⓘ
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).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$1,018,266$1,043,948$1,068,583$24,6352.5%No
2020$1,043,948$1,065,976$1,086,819$20,8432.1%No
2021$1,065,976$1,080,008$1,100,748$20,7401.3%No
2022$977,259$977,259$1,016,007$38,7480%No
2023$977,259$977,259$1,026,897$49,6380%No
2024$977,259$973,259$1,025,015$51,756-0.4%No
2025$973,259$973,259$1,022,488$49,2290%No
2026$973,259$1,020,371$1,020,371$04.8%No
2027$1,003,259$1,041,598$1,041,598$03.8%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 Designation3.3No Designation20fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation3.3No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation20fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation19.2No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 67.9% ($1,722,303 of $2,536,810) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 25.6% ($903,512 of $3,535,181) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 4.7% ($128,049 of $2,724,921) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

Source: osc-audits ⓘ. Matched by entity name in the report title.

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