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 Marbletown

Town · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 510350900000

Population 5,759 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 5,657) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2024 (by $136,250, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of MarbletownPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,004$1,10643rd114AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$418$57932nd114AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$248$41534th97AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending2.5%3.9%40th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue28.1%10.6%95th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue7.6%7.1%55th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)33.8%40.1%43rd104OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years44.3%27.3%86th111AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth32.7%14.4%82nd1142021–2026 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$1.5M$2.9M$4.4M$5.8M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $3.6MRevenue 2020: $3.7MRevenue 2021: $4.2MRevenue 2022: $4.8MRevenue 2023: $5.4MRevenue 2024: $5.6MRevenue 2025: $5.8MSpending 2019: $3.5MSpending 2020: $3.5MSpending 2021: $4.0MSpending 2022: $4.4MSpending 2023: $4.5MSpending 2024: $5.5MSpending 2025: $5.8M

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)
$-328k$-19k$290k$599k$908k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-5kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $211kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-149kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $609kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $908kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-328kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $134k

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$375k$750k$1.1M$1.5M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2024: $1.5MDebt outstanding 2025: $1.4MDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $0kDebt service 2024: $0kDebt service 2025: $144k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$723k$1.4M$2.2M$2.9M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $2.2MTotal levy 2022: $2.3MTotal levy 2023: $2.6MTotal levy 2024: $2.8MTotal levy 2025: $2.8MTotal levy 2026: $2.9M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202351.9%FY202427.5%FY202533.8%

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 DesignationFY20220 No DesignationFY20230 No DesignationFY20240 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)$3,583,255$3,494,994$1,832,031$1,837,346$2,132,859$206,993$428,154$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$3,705,521$3,526,222$2,028,101$1,817,020$2,160,475$198,382$426,224$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$4,199,731$4,007,177$2,253,930$2,403,195$2,203,720$244,470$795,436$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$4,815,445$4,431,742$2,890,233$2,281,436$2,204,845$357,452$853,819$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$5,355,048$4,460,873$3,317,571$2,409,232$2,369,660$398,948$999,861$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$5,551,585$5,524,649$3,413,518$3,741,325$2,390,859$424,889$1,264,220$0$1,500,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$5,829,762$5,783,860$3,673,290$3,539,554$2,405,028$445,265$1,635,565$144,017$1,426,000afr-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$2,090,984$2,115,455$2,150,079$34,6241.2%No
2020$2,115,455$2,108,055$2,210,082$102,027-0.3%No
2021$2,137,597$2,175,699$2,222,548$46,8491.8%No
2022$2,175,699$2,347,556$2,241,405$-106,1517.9%Yes
2023$0$2,487,392$2,113,965$-373,427–Yes
2024$2,556,172$2,769,939$2,633,689$-136,2508.4%Yes
2025$2,820,939$2,847,551$2,934,196$86,6450.9%No
2026$2,847,551$2,901,719$3,013,049$111,3301.9%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 Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation0No Designation10fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 51.9% ($2,312,458 of $4,452,171) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 27.5% ($1,539,994 of $5,604,361) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 33.8% ($1,954,088 of $5,774,165) 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/marbletown.json