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 Day

Town · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 410322000000

Population 823 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 831) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 103.7% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of DayPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$2,783$91395th101AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$905$40991st101AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt service % of operating spending0%2.4%16th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue12.5%12.6%49th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue50.9%22.6%90th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)103.7%48.1%83rd96OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years30%26.7%57th100AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth5.6%13.2%17th1012021–2026 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$870k$1.7M$2.6M$3.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $1.9MRevenue 2020: $1.9MRevenue 2021: $2.3MRevenue 2022: $2.3MRevenue 2023: $2.6MRevenue 2024: $2.7MRevenue 2025: $2.6MSpending 2019: $1.6MSpending 2020: $1.8MSpending 2021: $1.8MSpending 2022: $1.9MSpending 2023: $2.1MSpending 2024: $3.5MSpending 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)
$-694k$-405k$-116k$173k$462k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $140kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-130kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $462kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $313kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $185kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-694kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $145k

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$194k$387k$581k$775k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $715kTotal levy 2022: $717kTotal levy 2023: $749kTotal levy 2024: $775kTotal levy 2025: $745kTotal levy 2026: $756k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY2023150.7%FY202468.5%FY2025103.7%

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 DesignationFY20243.3 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)$1,869,339$1,621,062$809,347$669,142$744,629$911,151$171,997$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$1,877,899$1,818,082$732,703$863,200$728,298$901,674$152,524$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$2,310,501$1,761,901$1,187,832$725,530$729,181$1,142,539$222,262$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$2,293,853$1,928,822$1,078,786$766,054$716,801$1,306,255$147,412$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$2,617,081$2,085,178$1,157,407$972,540$757,401$1,403,157$232,623$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$2,716,282$3,480,823$1,322,404$2,016,431$777,518$1,416,737$217,364$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$2,554,763$2,290,332$1,078,656$933,758$744,926$1,300,975$319,388$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$708,868$711,449$740,532$29,0830.4%No
2020$711,449$71,392,100$748,905$-70,643,1959,934.8%No
2021$713,921$715,492$741,440$25,9480.2%No
2022$715,492$716,801$746,324$29,5230.2%No
2023$716,801$748,974$748,181$-7934.5%Yes
2024$748,974$774,574$774,574$03.4%No
2025$774,574$744,779$798,610$53,831-3.8%No
2026$670,147$694,555$700,032$5,4773.6%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 Designation3.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation20fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 150.7% ($2,977,162 of $1,975,883) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 68.5% ($2,300,752 of $3,358,003) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 103.7% ($2,271,458 of $2,190,749) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/saratoga-county/day.json