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 Waterford

Village · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 410487505180

Population 1,999 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 2,029) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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AFR not filed in time for FSMS score

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities); last filed in time for a score: 2022. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of WaterfordPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$766$1,29510th47AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$171$38018th47AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$580$1,15327th42AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending6.1%6.5%47th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue6%5.9%51st48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue19.9%14%72nd48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-73.6%20.8%1st46AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth8.6%10.7%36th462021–2026 OSC tax tables

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$1.8M$3.5M$5.3M$7.0M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $1.3MRevenue 2020: $2.1MRevenue 2021: $7.0MRevenue 2022: $1.9MRevenue 2023: $3.6MRevenue 2024: $1.6MRevenue 2025: $1.6MSpending 2019: $1.1MSpending 2020: $2.0MSpending 2021: $5.8MSpending 2022: $2.5MSpending 2023: $3.3MSpending 2024: $1.4MSpending 2025: $1.5M

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)
$-96k$107k$311k$514k$717k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $82kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $50kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $73kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $26kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $717kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-96kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $82k

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$313k$625k$938k$1.3M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $75kDebt outstanding 2020: $38kDebt outstanding 2021: $0kDebt outstanding 2022: $189kDebt outstanding 2023: $1.3MDebt outstanding 2024: $1.2MDebt outstanding 2025: $1.2MDebt service 2019: $41kDebt service 2020: $40kDebt service 2021: $39kDebt service 2022: $16kDebt service 2023: $194kDebt service 2024: $94kDebt service 2025: $93k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$80k$160k$241k$321k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $296kTotal levy 2022: $304kTotal levy 2023: $311kTotal levy 2024: $317kTotal levy 2025: $319kTotal levy 2026: $321k

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20193.3 No DesignationFY20203.3 No DesignationFY20213.3 No DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 Not filedFY20240 Not filedFY20250 Not Filed

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)$1,265,576$1,089,983$881,766$799,905$293,152$220,948$116,557$41,393$75,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$2,145,332$2,031,383$929,836$879,376$300,387$275,759$163,617$40,095$37,500afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$7,005,159$5,809,538$1,005,485$932,172$304,681$380,941$101,349$38,798$0afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$1,856,056$2,499,037$1,417,552$1,391,875$309,307$324,486$89,732$16,155$189,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$3,552,529$3,340,081$1,744,465$1,027,426$313,947$337,798$245,474$194,295$1,250,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$1,591,445$1,408,623$1,065,420$1,161,417$321,637$352,332$83,379$93,889$1,205,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$1,641,881$1,531,212$1,157,450$1,075,030$342,250$326,117$99,115$93,200$1,160,000afr-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$286,924$292,518$293,350$8322%No
2020$292,518$294,799$299,499$4,7000.8%No
2021$294,799$295,519$309,129$13,6100.2%No
2022$295,519$304,027$304,147$1202.9%No
2023$304,027$310,724$310,724$02.2%No
2024$310,724$317,319$317,319$02.1%No
2025$317,319$319,248$324,282$5,0340.6%No
2026$319,248$320,944$331,246$10,3020.5%No
2027$320,944$324,983$334,984$10,0011.3%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 Designation3.3Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation3.3Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation3.3Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0Significant Environmental Stress50fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023Not filed–––fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024Not filed–––fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025Not Filed–––fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ
Filing status

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities). Last filed in time for a score: 2022. fsms-notfiled-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-waterford.json