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 Tusten

Town · Sullivan County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 480383900000

Population 1,436 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 1,407) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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Recurring deficits our calculation

General fund spending (incl. transfers out) exceeded revenues (incl. transfers in) in 2023, 2024, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2022, 2023, 2024 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2024 ⓘ

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 Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of TustenPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,943$1,10690th114AFR 2024, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$996$57977th114AFR 2024 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$757$41570th97AFR 2024 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending1%3.9%18th114AFR 2024 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue15.9%10.6%74th114AFR 2024 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue0%7.1%16th114AFR 2024 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years9%27.3%12th111AFR 2020–2024 (our calc)
Levy growth8.1%14.4%27th1142021–2026 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$859k$1.7M$2.6M$3.4M201920202021202220232024Revenue 2019: $2.2MRevenue 2020: $2.5MRevenue 2021: $2.4MRevenue 2022: $2.6MRevenue 2023: $2.8MRevenue 2024: $2.8MSpending 2019: $2.6MSpending 2020: $2.6MSpending 2021: $2.2MSpending 2022: $2.7MSpending 2023: $3.4MSpending 2024: $2.8M

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)
$-139k$-78k$-17k$43k$104k201920202021202220232024General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-126kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $104kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $12kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-139kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-81k

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$272k$544k$815k$1.1M201920202021202220232024Debt outstanding 2021: $160kDebt outstanding 2022: $144kDebt outstanding 2023: $128kDebt outstanding 2024: $1.1MDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $18kDebt service 2023: $4kDebt service 2024: $28k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$371k$743k$1.1M$1.5M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $1.4MTotal levy 2022: $1.3MTotal levy 2023: $1.3MTotal levy 2024: $1.4MTotal levy 2025: $1.5MTotal levy 2026: $1.5M

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 Not filedFY20206.7 No DesignationFY20216.7 No DesignationFY20226.7 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 2019-12-31)$2,245,328$2,585,381$604,759$598,410$1,367,674$0$357,101$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$2,450,035$2,558,963$748,277$874,726$1,412,621$0$548,128$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$2,355,607$2,166,506$678,576$574,615$1,400,786$0$389,539$0$160,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$2,602,820$2,659,065$790,796$778,548$1,356,901$0$479,379$18,400$144,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$2,773,288$3,436,221$906,437$1,045,028$1,367,219$0$597,620$4,354$128,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$2,788,193$2,790,544$918,651$999,500$1,430,266$0$442,407$27,799$1,087,067afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
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). No AFR data in OSC bulk files for 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$1,424,630$1,347,195$1,399,353$52,158-5.4%No
2020$1,347,195$1,391,657$1,405,608$13,9513.3%No
2021$1,391,657$1,374,515$1,434,380$59,865-1.2%No
2022$1,374,515$1,326,991$1,435,897$108,906-3.5%No
2023$1,326,991$1,340,038$1,385,039$45,0011%No
2024$1,340,038$1,398,350$1,403,413$5,0634.4%No
2025$1,398,350$1,414,016$1,456,856$42,8401.1%No
2026$1,734,677$1,732,096$1,762,992$5,950-0.1%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
2019Not filed–––fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation6.7Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation6.7Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation6.7Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-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 ⓘ

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

In meetings

Context only. These links point to meetings where budget, levy, fund balance, debt or audits came up; they are not used in any figure above.

Budget and audit moments in meeting transcripts (2 meetings)

Machine transcripts; listen before citing. Meeting Insights library

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/sullivan-county/tusten.json