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 Fort Plain

Village · Montgomery County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 270453601800

Population 2,005 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 2,015) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $9,713, override planned), 2026 (by $33,047, override planned), 2027 (by $12,365, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

AFR not filed in time for FSMS score

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities); last filed in time for a score: 2021. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of Fort PlainPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,620$1,29565th47AFR 2023, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$397$38059th47AFR 2023 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$772$1,15342nd42AFR 2023 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending3%6.5%30th48AFR 2023 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue4.8%5.9%39th48AFR 2023 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue11.3%14%43rd48AFR 2023 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years14.7%20.8%38th46AFR 2019–2023 (our calc)
Levy growth23.9%10.7%82nd462021–2026 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$878k$1.8M$2.6M$3.5M20192020202120222023Revenue 2019: $3.0MRevenue 2020: $3.0MRevenue 2021: $3.0MRevenue 2022: $3.1MRevenue 2023: $3.5MSpending 2019: $2.8MSpending 2020: $2.9MSpending 2021: $2.9MSpending 2022: $3.1MSpending 2023: $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)
$-40k$-5k$30k$65k$100k20192020202120222023General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $45kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-40kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $100k

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$391k$782k$1.2M$1.6M20192020202120222023Debt outstanding 2019: $1.6MDebt outstanding 2020: $1.6MDebt outstanding 2021: $1.4MDebt outstanding 2022: $983kDebt outstanding 2023: $1.5MDebt service 2019: $111kDebt service 2020: $115kDebt service 2021: $115kDebt service 2022: $86kDebt service 2023: $98k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$217k$433k$650k$866k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $699kTotal levy 2022: $718kTotal levy 2023: $762kTotal levy 2024: $771kTotal levy 2025: $816kTotal levy 2026: $866k

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY201928.3 No DesignationFY202025 No DesignationFY20216.3 No DesignationFY20220 Not filedFY20230 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 2019-05-31)$2,963,065$2,831,368$1,280,936$1,286,526$693,400$285,430$107,981$110,988$1,564,134afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$3,020,712$2,854,915$1,283,470$1,289,786$708,302$285,743$100,151$115,018$1,559,980afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$2,995,650$2,871,989$1,328,879$1,283,818$716,752$318,455$78,148$114,703$1,424,593afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$3,117,738$3,141,525$1,459,700$1,499,437$734,496$359,003$107,658$86,287$983,497afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$3,511,971$3,248,414$1,700,392$1,600,369$796,286$397,704$169,269$98,030$1,548,779afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
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 2024, 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$662,871$663,101$688,569$25,4680%Yes
2020$663,101$690,799$693,253$2,4544.2%No
2021$690,799$699,396$707,659$8,2631.2%No
2022$699,396$717,773$721,957$4,1842.6%No
2023$717,773$761,687$732,128$-29,5596.1%Yes
2024$762,101$771,034$778,975$7,9411.2%No
2025$771,034$814,987$805,274$-9,7135.7%Yes
2026$816,037$866,237$833,190$-33,0476.2%Yes
2027$866,237$902,139$889,774$-12,3654.1%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 Designation28.3Significant Environmental Stress70fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation25Significant Environmental Stress70fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation6.3Significant Environmental Stress70fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022Not filed–––fsms-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: 2021. 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/fort-plain.json