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 Galway

Village · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 410431401900

Population 206 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 214) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 371.6% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of GalwayPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$345$1,2953rd47AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$0$3801st47AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt service % of operating spending0%6.5%6th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue7.4%5.9%68th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue83.3%14%99th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)371.6%42.4%99th42OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years6.1%20.8%27th46AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.34.239th36OSC 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$21k$41k$62k$82k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $75kRevenue 2020: $66kRevenue 2021: $61kRevenue 2022: $70kRevenue 2023: $82kRevenue 2024: $79kRevenue 2025: $61kSpending 2019: $73kSpending 2020: $75kSpending 2021: $67kSpending 2022: $62kSpending 2023: $53kSpending 2024: $48kSpending 2025: $71k

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)
$-10k$0k$10k$21k$31k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $2kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $8kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $29kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $31kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-10k

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$0k$0k$0k$0k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $0kTotal levy 2022: $0kTotal levy 2023: $0kTotal levy 2024: $0kTotal levy 2025: $0kTotal levy 2026: $0k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY2023523.8%FY2024607.4%FY2025371.6%

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 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 2019-05-31)$74,632$72,844$74,632$72,844$0$45,193$4,583$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$66,127$75,430$66,127$75,430$0$45,481$4,700$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$61,039$67,019$61,039$67,019$0$43,272$4,426$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$69,854$61,971$69,854$61,971$0$49,112$6,256$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$82,011$53,388$82,011$53,388$0$50,117$5,016$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$79,355$48,386$79,355$48,386$0$53,443$4,588$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$61,153$71,126$61,153$71,126$0$50,925$4,552$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$0$0$0$0–No
2020$0$0$0$0–No
2021$0$0$0$0–No
2022$0$0$0$0–No
2023$0$0$0$0–No
2024$0$0$0$0–No
2025$0$0$0$0–No
2026$0$0$0$0–No
2027$0$0$0$0–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 Designation6.7Susceptible Environmental Stress33.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation6.7Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation6.7Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation6.7No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0Moderate Environmental Stress43.3fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 523.8% ($279,649 of $53,388) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 607.4% ($293,922 of $48,386) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 371.6% ($264,318 of $71,126) 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/village-galway.json