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 Nelliston

Village · Montgomery County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 270463503340

Population 564 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 564) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 126.3% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $3,549, override planned), 2026 (by $1,826, override planned), 2027 (by $4,550, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Late AFR (FSMS not filed)

OSC FSMS lists this entity as "Not filed" for FY 2023, 2024: its Annual Financial Report was not filed in time to be scored. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ · fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of NellistonPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$821$1,29516th47AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$294$38033rd47AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$887$1,15346th42AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending0%6.5%6th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue4.7%5.9%35th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue29.8%14%84th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)126.3%42.4%92nd42OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years8%20.8%32nd46AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth13.6%10.7%66th462021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.34.239th36OSC 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$147k$294k$441k$588k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $441kRevenue 2020: $547kRevenue 2021: $508kRevenue 2022: $544kRevenue 2023: $588kRevenue 2024: $480kRevenue 2025: $585kSpending 2019: $423kSpending 2020: $435kSpending 2021: $429kSpending 2022: $410kSpending 2023: $540kSpending 2024: $432kSpending 2025: $463k

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)
$-93k$-45k$4k$53k$102k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $40kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $102kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $22kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $83kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-93kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $68kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $38k

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$125k$250k$375k$500k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $0kDebt outstanding 2025: $500kDebt service 2019: $9kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $0kDebt service 2024: $0kDebt service 2025: $0k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$42k$84k$126k$168k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $148kTotal levy 2022: $148kTotal levy 2023: $148kTotal levy 2024: $152kTotal levy 2025: $160kTotal levy 2026: $168k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY2025126.3%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 Not filedFY20200 No DesignationFY20210 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 Not filedFY20240 Not filedFY20253.3 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 2019-05-31)$441,249$422,822$284,116$243,827$149,800$115,593$0$9,315$0afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$546,669$434,793$351,659$249,771$150,830$123,182$49,241$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$508,133$428,921$330,244$308,098$149,451$124,672$39,347$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$544,232$409,521$405,884$323,324$149,750$148,657$38,455$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$588,485$539,580$416,611$510,073$149,904$172,277$50,384$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$479,736$432,129$351,222$283,520$155,480$170,241$9,575$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$584,817$463,307$389,337$351,667$165,965$174,125$27,415$0$500,000afr-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$142,600$143,536$147,632$4,0960.7%No
2020$146,937$143,536$156,251$12,715-2.3%No
2021$145,809$147,632$150,748$3,1161.3%No
2022$147,632$147,632$151,827$4,1950%No
2023$147,632$147,632$152,862$5,2300%No
2024$147,632$152,060$153,073$1,0133%No
2025$152,060$159,663$156,114$-3,5495%Yes
2026$159,663$167,646$165,820$-1,8265%Yes
2027$167,646$176,028$171,478$-4,5505%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
2019Not filed–––fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023Not filed–––fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024Not filed–––fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2025 126.3% ($444,155 of $351,667) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

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

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