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 Halcott

Town · Greene County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 190335900000

Population 253 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 253) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 86.7% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of HalcottPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,764$1,10684th114AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$1,373$57991st114AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt service % of operating spending0%3.9%7th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue21.9%10.6%87th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue0%7.1%16th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)86.7%40.1%82nd104OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-8.5%27.3%4th111AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth13.6%14.4%44th1142021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.33.343rd97OSC 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$138k$276k$413k$551k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $395kRevenue 2020: $411kRevenue 2021: $491kRevenue 2022: $551kRevenue 2023: $460kRevenue 2024: $487kRevenue 2025: $498kSpending 2019: $370kSpending 2020: $345kSpending 2021: $488kSpending 2022: $441kSpending 2023: $523kSpending 2024: $482kSpending 2025: $446k

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)
$-14k$-5k$4k$14k$23k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $16kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $21kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-14kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $23kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $4kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $18k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$89k$178k$267k$357k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $314kTotal levy 2022: $320kTotal levy 2023: $327kTotal levy 2024: $336kTotal levy 2025: $347kTotal levy 2026: $357k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202328.6%FY202467.2%FY202586.7%

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 DesignationFY20233.3 No DesignationFY20243.3 No DesignationFY20253.3 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)$394,848$370,477$173,710$157,656$309,664$0$63,266$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$410,593$345,272$194,354$173,401$316,299$0$51,744$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$491,172$487,624$214,108$227,846$315,913$0$96,781$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$551,292$441,091$197,492$174,867$322,126$0$94,849$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$460,369$523,017$180,244$176,600$328,450$0$103,442$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$487,191$481,700$216,437$207,796$337,607$0$124,068$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$497,629$446,346$217,170$199,502$347,243$0$108,793$0–afr-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$303,613$307,716$311,951$4,2351.4%No
2020$307,716$313,870$322,280$8,4102%No
2021$313,870$313,869$319,659$5,7900%No
2022$313,869$320,138$324,941$4,8032%No
2023$326,595$326,595$333,360$6,7650%No
2024$326,595$335,676$340,425$4,7492.8%No
2025$335,676$346,824$347,656$8323.3%No
2026$346,824$356,691$356,892$2012.8%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 Designation3.3Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation3.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0Susceptible Environmental Stress33.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 28.6% ($138,430 of $484,487) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 67.2% ($298,349 of $444,144) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 86.7% ($354,349 of $408,790) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/greene-county/halcott.json