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 Schaghticoke

Town · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 380375200000

Population 7,297 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 7,396) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 57.5% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of SchaghticokePeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$788$91337th101AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$465$40960th101AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$235$31642nd73AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending2.4%2.4%50th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue12.7%12.6%51st101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue18.7%22.6%46th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)57.5%48.1%60th96OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years16.9%26.7%27th100AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth21.4%13.2%80th1012021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)03.314th88OSC 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$1.6M$3.2M$4.7M$6.3M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $4.8MRevenue 2020: $4.8MRevenue 2021: $5.5MRevenue 2022: $5.7MRevenue 2023: $6.1MRevenue 2024: $6.0MRevenue 2025: $6.3MSpending 2019: $4.7MSpending 2020: $4.6MSpending 2021: $4.9MSpending 2022: $5.3MSpending 2023: $5.6MSpending 2024: $5.6MSpending 2025: $5.8M

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)
$-73k$-6k$61k$127k$194k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-63kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $91kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $168kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $194kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $185kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $148kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-73k

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$689k$1.4M$2.1M$2.8M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $2.8MDebt outstanding 2020: $2.6MDebt outstanding 2021: $2.4MDebt outstanding 2022: $2.2MDebt outstanding 2023: $2.0MDebt outstanding 2024: $1.9MDebt outstanding 2025: $1.7MDebt service 2019: $479kDebt service 2020: $324kDebt service 2021: $212kDebt service 2022: $213kDebt service 2023: $215kDebt service 2024: $135kDebt service 2025: $136k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$864k$1.7M$2.6M$3.5M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $2.8MTotal levy 2022: $2.9MTotal levy 2023: $3.2MTotal levy 2024: $3.3MTotal levy 2025: $3.4MTotal levy 2026: $3.5M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202342.4%FY202459.6%FY202557.5%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20210 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 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 2019-12-31)$4,760,232$4,735,806$825,189$887,748$2,826,829$803,272$415,794$478,585$2,754,372afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$4,768,703$4,580,536$852,148$761,615$2,949,242$680,000$403,959$323,650$2,587,284afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$5,465,556$4,920,238$972,151$804,588$2,851,572$975,983$675,220$211,917$2,391,427afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$5,674,185$5,290,622$1,035,451$841,424$2,889,464$985,381$644,899$213,284$2,189,980afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$6,088,208$5,603,056$1,029,997$845,129$3,204,965$1,132,863$582,246$214,651$1,982,763afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$6,038,642$5,577,640$1,121,442$973,720$3,296,804$1,163,673$628,994$134,695$1,850,913afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$6,326,693$5,750,949$1,187,325$1,260,258$3,394,212$1,182,542$800,594$136,060$1,716,518afr-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$2,732,505$2,813,932$2,815,990$2,0583%No
2020$2,820,747$2,944,608$2,904,192$-45,1734.4%Yes
2021$2,944,608$2,846,663$3,027,426$180,763-3.3%No
2022$2,846,663$2,884,336$2,959,170$74,8341.3%No
2023$2,884,336$3,198,548$2,959,969$-238,57910.9%Yes
2024$3,198,548$3,291,555$3,291,555$02.9%No
2025$3,291,555$3,384,464$3,384,464$02.8%No
2026$3,384,464$3,457,066$3,462,510$5,4442.2%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 Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation10fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation10fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 42.4% ($598,115 of $1,409,983) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 59.6% ($791,672 of $1,328,653) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 57.5% ($1,055,025 of $1,835,814) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

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

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