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 Hoosick

Town · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 380339800000

Population 6,678 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 6,704) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 84.4% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of HoosickPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$522$91312th101AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$315$40935th101AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt service % of operating spending0%2.4%16th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue13.3%12.6%54th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue14.6%22.6%38th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)84.4%48.1%77th96OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years30.3%26.7%59th100AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth12.9%13.2%46th1012021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.33.345th88OSC 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$872k$1.7M$2.6M$3.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $2.6MRevenue 2020: $2.6MRevenue 2021: $2.8MRevenue 2022: $3.2MRevenue 2023: $3.1MRevenue 2024: $3.2MRevenue 2025: $3.3MSpending 2019: $2.4MSpending 2020: $2.7MSpending 2021: $2.7MSpending 2022: $2.8MSpending 2023: $3.0MSpending 2024: $2.9MSpending 2025: $3.5M

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)
$0k$56k$113k$169k$225k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $159kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $64kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $209kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $225kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $48kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $138kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $43k

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$118k$236k$354k$471k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $471kDebt outstanding 2020: $300kDebt outstanding 2021: $200kDebt outstanding 2022: $100kDebt outstanding 2023: $0kDebt service 2019: $147kDebt service 2020: $184kDebt service 2021: $105kDebt service 2022: $101kDebt service 2023: $101kDebt 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$507k$1.0M$1.5M$2.0M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $1.8MTotal levy 2022: $1.9MTotal levy 2023: $1.9MTotal levy 2024: $1.9MTotal levy 2025: $2.0MTotal levy 2026: $2.0M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202360.5%FY202491.6%FY202584.4%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20193.3 No DesignationFY20206.7 No DesignationFY20213.3 No DesignationFY20223.3 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20240 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)$2,644,686$2,392,697$962,079$803,560$1,846,283$371,429$185,086$146,587$471,380afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$2,618,526$2,702,953$922,600$858,117$1,875,376$364,738$252,081$183,532$300,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$2,839,771$2,677,945$1,039,983$830,900$1,903,472$395,832$373,432$105,235$200,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$3,175,897$2,800,600$1,327,667$1,102,268$1,960,282$430,969$359,689$101,077$100,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$3,090,949$2,997,456$1,100,909$1,053,033$1,994,073$451,255$367,674$100,798$0afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$3,183,320$2,919,003$1,113,342$975,004$2,042,728$454,885$503,754$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$3,300,575$3,488,959$1,121,908$1,078,922$2,105,587$481,826$439,023$0–afr-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$1,705,553$1,739,670$1,739,805$1352%No
2020$1,739,670$1,770,634$1,776,728$6,0941.8%No
2021$1,770,634$1,797,570$1,815,499$17,9291.5%No
2022$1,797,570$1,856,643$1,856,768$1253.3%No
2023$1,888,749$1,888,749$1,931,533$42,7840%No
2024$1,888,749$1,945,847$1,964,744$18,8973%No
2025$1,938,058$1,994,485$1,999,830$5,3452.9%No
2026$1,994,485$2,028,272$2,042,974$14,7021.7%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 Designation23.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation6.7No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation3.3No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation10fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 60.5% ($687,827 of $1,137,676) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 91.6% ($946,465 of $1,033,162) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 84.4% ($982,650 of $1,164,229) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/rensselaer-county/hoosick.json