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 Palatine Bridge

Village · Montgomery County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 270463503760

Population 792 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 793) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 118.2% 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 2027 (by $33,281, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of Palatine BridgePeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$833$1,29518th47AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$347$38041st47AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$922$1,15349th42AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending13.2%6.5%78th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue5.3%5.9%42nd48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue40.5%14%95th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)118.2%42.4%87th42OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years7.2%20.8%29th46AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth9.4%10.7%39th462021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)54.253rd36OSC 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$184k$369k$553k$737k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $587kRevenue 2020: $699kRevenue 2021: $658kRevenue 2022: $717kRevenue 2023: $737kRevenue 2024: $668kRevenue 2025: $691kSpending 2019: $554kSpending 2020: $587kSpending 2021: $615kSpending 2022: $621kSpending 2023: $514kSpending 2024: $592kSpending 2025: $660k

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)
$-112k$-57k$-3k$52k$106k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $29kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-8kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $21kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $79kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $106kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-112kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $69k

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$214k$428k$642k$856k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $690kDebt outstanding 2020: $622kDebt outstanding 2021: $553kDebt outstanding 2022: $483kDebt outstanding 2023: $856kDebt outstanding 2024: $789kDebt outstanding 2025: $730kDebt service 2019: $80kDebt service 2020: $90kDebt service 2021: $91kDebt service 2022: $89kDebt service 2023: $63kDebt service 2024: $105kDebt service 2025: $87k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$68k$136k$205k$273k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $248kTotal levy 2022: $246kTotal levy 2023: $224kTotal levy 2024: $273kTotal levy 2025: $258kTotal levy 2026: $271k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202329.0%FY202478.4%FY2025118.2%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY201910 No DesignationFY20206.7 No DesignationFY20211.7 No DesignationFY20221.7 No DesignationFY20231.7 No DesignationFY20245 No DesignationFY20255 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)$587,309$553,705$383,398$354,199$196,861$200,717$9,425$80,052$690,438afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$698,798$587,486$435,348$442,911$223,245$190,504$5,448$90,043$622,438afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$657,766$615,303$429,706$409,127$252,535$191,719$3,321$90,756$553,438afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$716,773$621,049$533,485$454,798$249,745$229,402$34,840$89,143$483,438afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$737,029$514,090$585,658$479,542$234,359$269,584$89,768$62,941$856,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$668,479$592,105$556,401$668,194$274,020$268,622$18,679$105,481$789,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$691,174$659,749$569,751$501,193$275,104$279,667$36,516$87,310$730,000afr-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$189,069$193,117$193,217$1002.1%No
2020$151,047$154,068$156,919$2,8512%No
2021$154,068$156,810$159,205$2,3951.8%No
2022$156,810$156,384$160,028$3,644-0.3%No
2023$156,384$161,291$162,005$7143.1%No
2024$224,237$235,203$235,748$5454.9%No
2025$235,203$167,245$245,517$78,272-28.9%No
2026$170,280$170,280$179,539$9,2590%No
2027$170,280$213,400$180,119$-33,28125.3%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 Designation10Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation6.7Moderate Environmental Stress43.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation1.7No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation1.7No Designation10fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation1.7No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation5No Designation10fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation5No Designation10fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 29% ($138,868 of $479,542) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 78.4% ($523,752 of $668,194) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 118.2% ($592,310 of $501,193) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

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

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