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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Village of Fonda

Village · Montgomery County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 270454001740

Population 688 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 695) 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: 2024. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of FondaPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,762$1,29573rd47AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$383$38052nd47AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$3,116$1,15380th42AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending7.7%6.5%55th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue1.3%5.9%5th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue15.9%14%61st48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)21.8%42.4%32nd42OSC FSMS FY2024
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-5.2%20.8%16th46AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth19.2%10.7%77th462021–2026 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$369k$739k$1.1M$1.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $996kRevenue 2020: $991kRevenue 2021: $1.0MRevenue 2022: $1.2MRevenue 2023: $1.2MRevenue 2024: $1.3MRevenue 2025: $1.1MSpending 2019: $864kSpending 2020: $866kSpending 2021: $1.3MSpending 2022: $1.5MSpending 2023: $1.1MSpending 2024: $1.2MSpending 2025: $1.2M

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)
$-325k$-210k$-95k$20k$135k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $50kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $61kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-245kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-325kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $94kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $135kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $20k

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$566k$1.1M$1.7M$2.3M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $10kDebt outstanding 2020: $74kDebt outstanding 2021: $59kDebt outstanding 2022: $1.2MDebt outstanding 2023: $2.3MDebt outstanding 2024: $2.2MDebt outstanding 2025: $2.1MDebt service 2019: $26kDebt service 2020: $11kDebt service 2021: $17kDebt service 2022: $33kDebt service 2023: $39kDebt service 2024: $86kDebt service 2025: $93k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$66k$133k$199k$266k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $223kTotal levy 2022: $226kTotal levy 2023: $231kTotal levy 2024: $236kTotal levy 2025: $260kTotal levy 2026: $266k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202313.5%FY202421.8%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20210 Not filedFY20220 Not filedFY20236.7 No DesignationFY20243.3 No DesignationFY20250 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 2019-05-31)$995,834$864,058$474,251$424,610$215,991$114,826$72,296$25,999$10,200afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$990,541$866,378$473,645$412,354$223,422$119,566$39,399$10,532$74,237afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$1,015,531$1,278,525$448,974$693,542$226,432$126,661$33,102$16,644$59,390afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$1,178,539$1,477,780$544,654$869,265$231,179$149,678$82,654$33,039$1,241,134afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$1,188,015$1,127,722$577,454$483,741$235,725$167,643$68,057$38,594$2,263,425afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$1,317,572$1,244,966$701,431$565,956$238,987$163,408$225,608$86,479$2,150,366afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$1,083,136$1,212,019$528,388$508,259$263,199$172,120$13,906$93,314$2,143,895afr-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$211,370$215,620$215,620$02%No
2020$215,470$219,929$219,929$02.1%No
2021$219,756$223,000$223,841$8411.5%No
2022$223,017$226,921$226,921$01.8%No
2023$226,921$231,459$231,459$02%No
2024$231,459$236,135$236,135$02%No
2025$236,135$241,084$241,084$02.1%No
2026$259,975$265,758$265,758$02.2%Yes
2027$265,758$272,971$272,971$02.7%Yes

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 Designation0Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021Not filed–––fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022Not filed–––fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation6.7No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025Not Filed–––fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 13.5% ($65,253 of $483,741) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 21.8% ($123,265 of $565,956) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ

Filing status

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities). Last filed in time for a score: 2024. fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/montgomery-county/fonda.json