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 Blenheim

Town · Schoharie County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 430307700000

Population 317 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 311) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 60.6% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of BlenheimPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$3,566$91398th101AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$865$40990th101AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$251$31643rd73AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending2.5%2.4%51st101AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue23.3%12.6%85th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue6.6%22.6%28th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)60.6%48.1%62nd96OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years67.8%26.7%91st100AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth-1.6%13.2%5th1012021–2026 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$283k$565k$848k$1.1M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $732kRevenue 2020: $713kRevenue 2021: $808kRevenue 2022: $750kRevenue 2023: $955kRevenue 2024: $962kRevenue 2025: $965kSpending 2019: $561kSpending 2020: $645kSpending 2021: $674kSpending 2022: $648kSpending 2023: $657kSpending 2024: $761kSpending 2025: $1.1M

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)
$-129k$-43k$42k$128k$214k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $125kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $114kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $68kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $102kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $214kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $120kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-129k

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$57k$115k$172k$230k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $230kDebt outstanding 2020: $199kDebt outstanding 2021: $176kDebt outstanding 2022: $153kDebt outstanding 2023: $129kDebt outstanding 2024: $105kDebt outstanding 2025: $80kDebt service 2019: $58kDebt service 2020: $37kDebt service 2021: $28kDebt service 2022: $28kDebt service 2023: $28kDebt service 2024: $28kDebt service 2025: $28k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$69k$138k$208k$277k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $277kTotal levy 2022: $277kTotal levy 2023: $277kTotal levy 2024: $263kTotal levy 2025: $272kTotal levy 2026: $272k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY2023141.6%FY2024100.2%FY202560.6%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20196.7 No DesignationFY20203.3 No DesignationFY20210 No DesignationFY20220 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)$732,096$560,924$337,529$212,354$285,568$40,222$100,708$58,005$229,971afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$712,851$644,907$376,482$262,313$279,201$39,223$84,894$37,319$198,681afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$807,927$673,840$399,303$331,600$278,831$44,685$156,455$27,867$176,075afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$749,624$648,114$388,397$286,113$279,068$51,501$86,441$27,867$152,870afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$954,779$657,221$500,549$286,874$278,945$63,434$154,459$27,867$129,051afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$961,700$760,984$421,761$301,447$264,918$67,009$177,243$27,867$104,600afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$965,134$1,130,540$273,666$402,879$274,054$64,019$225,141$27,867$79,501afr-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$293,594$282,352$299,466$17,114-3.8%No
2020$282,352$276,708$288,748$12,040-2%No
2021$276,708$276,707$281,502$4,7950%No
2022$276,707$276,707$282,241$5,5340%No
2023$276,707$276,707$282,947$6,2400%No
2024$276,707$262,882$282,435$19,553-5%No
2025$262,882$272,355$272,374$193.6%No
2026$272,355$272,355$283,053$10,6980%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 Designation6.7No Designation10fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation3.3No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 141.6% ($930,535 of $657,221) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 100.2% ($762,682 of $760,984) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 60.6% ($685,266 of $1,130,540) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

No OSC audits matched by name for this entity (osc-audits ⓘ).

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/schoharie-county/blenheim.json