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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Village of Saugerties

Village · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 510474904420

Population 3,853 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 3,903) 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, 2025, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2023, 2024, 2025 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2024 ⓘ · afr-2025 ⓘ

Low fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was -37.6% of gross expenditures (FY 2024); threshold < 5%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $381,882, override planned), 2027 (by $947,279, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

AFR not filed in time for FSMS score

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities); last filed in time for a score: 2024. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson villages

IndicatorVillage of SaugertiesPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,518$1,90030th48AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$652$71839th48AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$2,453$1,60266th45AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending15.7%8.2%78th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue3.8%4.8%44th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue2%5.9%33rd48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)-37.6%31.1%1st41OSC FSMS FY2024
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years28.7%30.7%45th46AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth50.9%15.1%95th472021–2026 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$1.5M$2.9M$4.4M$5.8M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $4.5MRevenue 2020: $4.9MRevenue 2021: $4.3MRevenue 2022: $4.6MRevenue 2023: $5.3MRevenue 2024: $5.6MRevenue 2025: $5.7MSpending 2019: $4.7MSpending 2020: $5.1MSpending 2021: $4.5MSpending 2022: $5.3MSpending 2023: $5.8MSpending 2024: $5.8MSpending 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)
$-630k$-496k$-362k$-228k$-94k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-94kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-329kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-107kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-310kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-630kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-234kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-98k

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$2.4M$4.7M$7.1M$9.5M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $9.1MDebt outstanding 2020: $8.6MDebt outstanding 2021: $9.0MDebt outstanding 2022: $9.3MDebt outstanding 2023: $9.0MDebt outstanding 2024: $8.7MDebt outstanding 2025: $9.5MDebt service 2019: $792kDebt service 2020: $1.0MDebt service 2021: $759kDebt service 2022: $992kDebt service 2023: $884kDebt service 2024: $1.1MDebt service 2025: $915k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$672k$1.3M$2.0M$2.7M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $1.8MTotal levy 2022: $1.8MTotal levy 2023: $1.9MTotal levy 2024: $1.9MTotal levy 2025: $2.5MTotal levy 2026: $2.7M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY2023-24.1%FY2024-37.6%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20196.7 No DesignationFY20200 Not filedFY202141.3 No DesignationFY20220 Not filedFY202385 Significant Fiscal StressFY202473.3 Significant Fiscal StressFY20250 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 2019-05-31)$4,490,898$4,664,144$2,294,271$2,388,559$1,749,717$0$221,812$791,815$9,122,677afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$4,861,471$5,130,604$2,453,702$2,782,325$1,791,035$0$378,384$1,020,858$8,627,687afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$4,346,253$4,544,568$2,192,700$2,299,649$1,773,661$0$102,458$758,508$9,006,226afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$4,625,132$5,250,122$2,544,647$2,854,396$1,827,236$0$157,458$991,804$9,300,794afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$5,308,160$5,848,238$2,843,214$3,473,290$1,984,822$0$324,369$884,013$8,967,760afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$5,593,262$5,758,855$2,619,869$2,853,693$1,958,867$0$429,007$1,098,312$8,715,090afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$5,712,275$5,846,947$3,079,856$3,177,714$2,512,099$115,637$217,113$915,406$9,452,698afr-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$1,698,990$1,700,000$1,740,292$40,2920.1%No
2020$1,680,723$1,745,768$1,748,554$2,7863.9%No
2021$1,745,768$1,780,346$1,781,516$1,1702%No
2022$1,780,346$1,833,839$1,833,846$73%No
2023$1,796,294$1,874,008$1,874,008$04.3%No
2024$1,874,008$1,913,973$1,913,973$02.1%No
2025$1,913,973$2,343,439$1,961,557$-381,88222.4%Yes
2026$2,343,439$2,390,308$2,390,308$02%No
2027$2,390,308$3,421,721$2,474,442$-947,27943.2%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 Designation6.7No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020Not filed–––fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation41.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022Not filed–––fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023Significant Fiscal Stress85No Designation0fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024Significant Fiscal Stress73.3No Designation3.3fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025Not Filed–––fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 -24.1% ($-838,523 of $3,473,290) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 -37.6% ($-1,072,351 of $2,853,693) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ

Filing status

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities). Last filed in time for a score: 2024. fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

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

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