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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Town of Kendall

Town · Orleans County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 340343500000

Population 2,577 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 2,602) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 61.9% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Rochester towns

IndicatorTown of KendallPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$888$84157th100AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$389$40249th100AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$1,414$50576th87AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending8.5%5.1%75th100AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue14.1%11.5%70th100AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue3.8%13.4%28th100AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)61.9%52.1%59th98OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years23.7%29.3%34th99AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth12.7%16.8%37th992021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.33.349th97OSC 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$585k$1.2M$1.8M$2.3M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $1.6MRevenue 2020: $1.9MRevenue 2021: $2.1MRevenue 2022: $2.1MRevenue 2023: $1.7MRevenue 2024: $2.0MRevenue 2025: $2.3MSpending 2019: $1.7MSpending 2020: $1.8MSpending 2021: $1.8MSpending 2022: $2.1MSpending 2023: $1.8MSpending 2024: $1.6MSpending 2025: $2.3M

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)
$-41k$42k$126k$209k$292k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-41kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-21kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $46kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $11kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-25kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-10kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $292k

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$990k$2.0M$3.0M$4.0M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $2.2MDebt outstanding 2020: $3.2MDebt outstanding 2021: $3.1MDebt outstanding 2022: $4.0MDebt outstanding 2023: $3.9MDebt outstanding 2024: $3.8MDebt outstanding 2025: $3.6MDebt service 2019: $177kDebt service 2020: $200kDebt service 2021: $231kDebt service 2022: $197kDebt service 2023: $196kDebt service 2024: $193kDebt service 2025: $194k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$255k$511k$766k$1.0M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $907kTotal levy 2022: $923kTotal levy 2023: $938kTotal levy 2024: $957kTotal levy 2025: $975kTotal levy 2026: $1.0M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202354.1%FY202486.5%FY202561.9%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20193.3 No DesignationFY20203.3 No DesignationFY20215 No DesignationFY20221.7 No DesignationFY20235 No DesignationFY20245 No DesignationFY20253.3 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 2019-12-31)$1,585,046$1,674,899$507,889$548,507$891,633$86,813$168,007$176,883$2,217,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$1,923,745$1,777,756$538,827$559,962$913,404$86,813$497,152$199,714$3,236,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$2,078,629$1,849,683$580,933$535,345$930,317$86,813$548,718$230,750$3,106,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$2,138,869$2,102,017$665,087$654,486$947,899$86,811$605,078$196,538$3,958,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$1,685,251$1,751,097$538,751$563,839$967,938$86,813$203,122$195,726$3,859,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,958,216$1,568,812$624,776$634,343$979,925$88,654$402,902$192,926$3,754,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$2,340,934$2,287,343$927,730$635,924$1,003,219$88,648$330,108$194,151$3,644,000afr-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$857,857$875,000$878,923$3,9232%No
2020$875,000$893,000$896,830$3,8302.1%No
2021$893,000$907,000$908,038$1,0381.6%No
2022$907,000$923,000$924,993$1,9931.8%No
2023$923,000$938,000$940,893$2,8931.6%No
2024$938,000$957,000$959,446$2,4462%No
2025$957,000$975,000$978,161$3,1611.9%No
2026$975,000$1,021,843$1,021,843$04.8%No
2027$1,021,843$1,031,770$1,031,770$01%No

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 Designation3.3No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation3.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation5No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation1.7Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation5No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation5No Designation20fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 54.1% ($804,888 of $1,486,992) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 86.5% ($1,173,531 of $1,356,357) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 61.9% ($1,270,010 of $2,052,601) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/orleans-county/kendall.json