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 Shortsville

Village · Ontario County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 320450404580

Population 1,358 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 1,391) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 90.8% 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 2026 (by $122,410, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Rochester villages

IndicatorVillage of ShortsvillePeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,234$1,29939th47AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$377$38948th47AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$136$1,29217th43AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending6.4%6.2%52nd47AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue14%5.9%90th47AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue25.2%9.4%82nd47AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)90.8%45%79th46OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years19.5%23.1%37th47AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth47.5%14.6%86th472021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)03.316th44OSC 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$440k$880k$1.3M$1.8M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $1.5MRevenue 2020: $1.3MRevenue 2021: $1.4MRevenue 2022: $1.4MRevenue 2023: $1.6MRevenue 2024: $1.6MRevenue 2025: $1.8MSpending 2019: $1.4MSpending 2020: $1.5MSpending 2021: $1.4MSpending 2022: $1.2MSpending 2023: $1.3MSpending 2024: $1.4MSpending 2025: $1.7M

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)
$-23k$56k$135k$214k$293k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $74kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-23kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $119kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $242kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $293kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $166kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $126k

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$101k$203k$304k$405k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $405kDebt outstanding 2020: $345kDebt outstanding 2021: $280kDebt outstanding 2022: $215kDebt outstanding 2023: $365kDebt outstanding 2024: $280kDebt outstanding 2025: $185kDebt service 2019: $76kDebt service 2020: $74kDebt service 2021: $77kDebt service 2022: $75kDebt service 2023: $78kDebt service 2024: $100kDebt service 2025: $107k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$163k$327k$490k$653k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $443kTotal levy 2022: $444kTotal levy 2023: $505kTotal levy 2024: $504kTotal levy 2025: $509kTotal levy 2026: $653k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202381.3%FY202499.9%FY202590.8%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20196.7 No DesignationFY20206.7 No DesignationFY20216.7 No DesignationFY20226.7 No DesignationFY20233.3 No DesignationFY20240 No DesignationFY20250 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)$1,460,482$1,383,913$1,032,018$957,693$423,470$322,996$104,179$76,281$405,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$1,329,166$1,451,201$899,422$922,132$436,029$337,478$25,087$74,331$345,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$1,396,271$1,402,131$980,463$861,267$504,690$321,153$25,711$77,381$280,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$1,410,342$1,231,013$1,075,616$833,242$448,051$403,267$68,137$75,269$215,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$1,551,472$1,270,034$1,151,462$858,338$508,666$429,255$26,144$78,075$365,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$1,596,685$1,373,518$1,152,545$986,495$510,870$427,742$56,785$99,656$280,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$1,760,992$1,676,110$1,327,628$1,201,713$511,432$443,906$246,917$106,663$185,000afr-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$415,596$417,688$425,199$7,5110.5%Yes
2020$417,688$431,119$433,944$2,8253.2%Yes
2021$431,119$442,842$442,197$-6452.7%Yes
2022$442,842$444,100$448,667$4,5670.3%Yes
2023$444,100$504,896$459,684$-45,21213.7%Yes
2024$504,896$504,114$515,509$11,395-0.1%Yes
2025$504,114$509,454$522,025$12,5711.1%Yes
2026$509,454$653,323$530,913$-122,41028.2%Yes
2027$653,323$553,611$665,791$112,180-15.3%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 Designation6.7No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation6.7No Designation10fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation6.7No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation6.7No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 81.3% ($876,606 of $1,078,338) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 99.9% ($985,632 of $986,495) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 90.8% ($1,091,042 of $1,201,713) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/ontario-county/shortsville.json