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 Hardenburgh

Town · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 510337100000

Population 219 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 223) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 102.9% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2024 (by $53,557, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of HardenburghPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$7,224$1,106100th114AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$5,366$579100th114AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt service % of operating spending0%3.9%7th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue14.4%10.6%69th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue2.7%7.1%35th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)102.9%40.1%90th104OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years8.3%27.3%11th111AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth14.4%14.4%50th1142021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)03.312th97OSC 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$710k$1.4M$2.1M$2.8M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $1.6MRevenue 2020: $2.8MRevenue 2021: $1.6MRevenue 2022: $1.4MRevenue 2023: $1.4MRevenue 2024: $1.7MRevenue 2025: $1.8MSpending 2019: $1.9MSpending 2020: $2.6MSpending 2021: $1.5MSpending 2022: $1.5MSpending 2023: $1.3MSpending 2024: $1.2MSpending 2025: $1.6M

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)
$0k$27k$55k$82k$109k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $20kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $33kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $109kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $74kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $57kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $59kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $78k

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$299k$598k$897k$1.2M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $1.0MTotal levy 2022: $1.1MTotal levy 2023: $1.1MTotal levy 2024: $1.2MTotal levy 2025: $1.2MTotal levy 2026: $1.2M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202379.9%FY2024132.5%FY2025102.9%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20193.3 No DesignationFY20203.3 No DesignationFY20213.3 No DesignationFY20223.3 No DesignationFY20233.3 No DesignationFY20243.3 No DesignationFY20250 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)$1,627,523$1,891,803$371,168$350,855$953,663$37,652$534,685$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$2,839,418$2,635,098$361,974$328,496$991,758$37,259$1,707,327$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$1,570,994$1,461,433$398,858$289,857$1,032,677$42,567$373,796$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$1,359,280$1,469,513$376,196$301,792$1,073,950$57,409$111,791$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$1,436,016$1,342,287$355,834$299,269$1,122,634$54,391$126,529$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,672,517$1,212,766$430,778$372,075$1,199,396$51,640$247,464$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$1,777,645$1,582,125$479,282$400,912$1,175,085$48,721$256,716$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$860,835$1,045,820$889,037$-156,78321.5%Yes
2020$945,820$983,680$965,122$-18,5584%Yes
2021$988,080$1,024,240$1,006,203$-18,0373.7%Yes
2022$1,024,240$1,070,163$1,044,725$-25,4384.5%Yes
2023$1,066,563$1,115,681$1,090,288$-25,3934.6%Yes
2024$1,115,681$1,191,552$1,137,995$-53,5576.8%Yes
2025$1,191,552$1,167,652$1,219,565$51,913-2%Yes
2026$1,167,652$1,167,652$1,215,485$47,8330%Yes

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 Designation3.3Susceptible Environmental Stress36.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation3.3Moderate Environmental Stress43.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation3.3Moderate Environmental Stress40fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3Significant Environmental Stress50fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation20fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 79.9% ($1,068,970 of $1,337,811) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 132.5% ($1,478,721 of $1,115,841) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 102.9% ($1,624,241 of $1,577,825) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/ulster-county/hardenburgh.json