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 Hurley

Town · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 510341200000

Population 6,133 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 6,180) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 60.1% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Rapid debt growth our calculation

Debt outstanding rose from $200,000 (2022) to $1,300,000 (2025), +550%.

Source: debt-2022 ⓘ · debt-2025 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $405,210, override planned), 2026 (by $254,206, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Late AFR (FSMS not filed)

OSC FSMS lists this entity as "Not filed" for FY 2023: its Annual Financial Report was not filed in time to be scored. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of HurleyPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$676$1,10614th114AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$396$57928th114AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$212$41529th97AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending1.2%3.9%21st114AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue12.3%10.6%58th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue9.1%7.1%57th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)60.1%40.1%73rd104OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years38.4%27.3%78th111AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth28.6%14.4%79th1142021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.33.343rd97OSC 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$1.1M$2.3M$3.4M$4.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $3.4MRevenue 2020: $3.4MRevenue 2021: $4.0MRevenue 2022: $3.8MRevenue 2023: $3.9MRevenue 2024: $4.5MRevenue 2025: $4.5MSpending 2019: $2.7MSpending 2020: $2.7MSpending 2021: $3.0MSpending 2022: $3.7MSpending 2023: $4.0MSpending 2024: $4.0MSpending 2025: $4.1M

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)
$-516k$-282k$-47k$188k$422k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $388kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $198kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $223kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $89kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-152kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $422kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-516k

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$325k$650k$975k$1.3M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2021: $250kDebt outstanding 2022: $200kDebt outstanding 2023: $150kDebt outstanding 2024: $100kDebt outstanding 2025: $1.3MDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $53kDebt service 2023: $52kDebt service 2024: $52kDebt service 2025: $51k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$743k$1.5M$2.2M$3.0M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $2.3MTotal levy 2022: $2.3MTotal levy 2023: $2.4MTotal levy 2024: $2.4MTotal levy 2025: $2.6MTotal levy 2026: $3.0M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202477.8%FY202560.1%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20210 No DesignationFY20223.3 No DesignationFY20230 Not filedFY20246.7 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)$3,382,814$2,701,493$1,714,898$1,327,229$2,396,631$183,667$377,915$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$3,357,193$2,741,160$1,696,627$1,498,327$2,416,717$175,321$222,968$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$4,002,085$2,996,053$2,225,484$2,002,619$2,327,632$208,191$525,054$0$250,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$3,799,091$3,710,513$2,255,885$2,166,923$2,343,112$288,151$465,488$52,825$200,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$3,891,979$3,953,741$2,179,079$2,331,161$2,398,251$383,334$334,825$52,450$150,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$4,504,292$3,975,935$2,640,557$2,218,274$2,389,121$547,364$416,223$52,000$100,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$4,519,249$4,147,988$2,734,885$3,251,054$2,430,704$410,410$556,280$51,450$1,300,000afr-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$2,407,005$2,378,727$2,499,163$120,436-1.2%No
2020$2,378,727$2,397,032$2,469,126$72,0940.8%No
2021$2,393,067$2,302,200$2,475,699$173,499-3.8%No
2022$2,302,200$2,343,373$2,384,885$41,5121.8%No
2023$2,343,373$2,347,261$2,438,443$91,1820.2%No
2024$2,347,261$2,359,261$2,401,868$42,6070.5%No
2025$2,359,261$2,860,679$2,455,469$-405,21021.3%Yes
2026$2,635,679$2,972,709$2,718,503$-254,20612.8%Yes
2027$2,972,709$3,032,163$3,032,163$02%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 Designation0No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation20fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation6.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023Not filed–––fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation6.7No Designation0fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation0fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2024 77.8% ($3,083,473 of $3,964,138) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 60.1% ($2,975,925 of $4,950,637) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

Source: osc-audits ⓘ. Matched by entity name in the report title.

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 (1 meetings)

Machine transcripts; listen before citing. Meeting Insights library

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