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 Woodstock

Town · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 510392500000

Population 6,215 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 6,284) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 50.5% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson towns

IndicatorTown of WoodstockPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,609$1,10681st114AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$1,241$57986th114AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$623$41565th97AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending7.3%3.9%85th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue6.3%10.6%16th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue6.5%7.1%49th114AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)50.5%40.1%62nd104OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years11.2%27.3%15th111AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth20.2%14.4%64th1142021–2026 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$3.1M$6.2M$9.3M$12.4M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $8.4MRevenue 2020: $8.7MRevenue 2021: $9.4MRevenue 2022: $10.3MRevenue 2023: $10.6MRevenue 2024: $11.7MRevenue 2025: $11.4MSpending 2019: $7.8MSpending 2020: $7.7MSpending 2021: $9.0MSpending 2022: $12.4MSpending 2023: $9.3MSpending 2024: $9.7MSpending 2025: $10.0M

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)
$-1.0M$-382k$280k$942k$1.6M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $428kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $759kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-1.0MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $1.6MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-726kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $1.4MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $895k

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$1.4M$2.8M$4.1M$5.5M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $2.5MDebt outstanding 2020: $2.2MDebt outstanding 2021: $1.9MDebt outstanding 2022: $5.5MDebt outstanding 2023: $5.0MDebt outstanding 2024: $4.5MDebt outstanding 2025: $3.9MDebt service 2019: $417kDebt service 2020: $405kDebt service 2021: $1.2MDebt service 2022: $394kDebt service 2023: $774kDebt service 2024: $760kDebt service 2025: $733k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$1.9M$3.8M$5.8M$7.7M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $6.4MTotal levy 2022: $6.7MTotal levy 2023: $6.9MTotal levy 2024: $7.5MTotal levy 2025: $7.6MTotal levy 2026: $7.7M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202327.9%FY202443.3%FY202550.5%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 No DesignationFY20200 No DesignationFY20213.3 No DesignationFY20223.3 No DesignationFY20236.7 No DesignationFY20243.3 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)$8,420,292$7,796,778$5,467,772$5,039,291$6,245,537$315,547$472,236$416,610$2,530,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$8,716,233$7,678,667$5,730,336$4,971,193$6,447,707$314,201$656,635$404,835$2,195,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$9,353,109$8,990,274$6,151,424$7,195,591$6,446,833$388,687$751,241$1,163,361$1,890,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$10,274,937$12,414,067$7,014,628$5,409,997$6,755,191$567,420$1,189,790$394,050$5,505,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$10,608,682$9,250,344$6,844,039$7,569,925$7,402,255$625,130$782,321$774,210$5,015,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$11,739,567$9,660,858$7,778,013$6,338,754$7,525,730$711,650$737,502$760,311$4,450,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$11,371,607$9,998,820$7,487,368$6,592,341$7,714,081$736,042$713,798$732,776$3,875,000afr-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$5,999,218$6,133,763$6,196,074$62,3112.2%No
2020$6,133,763$6,393,562$6,411,930$18,3684.2%No
2021$6,393,562$6,392,517$6,641,657$249,140-0%No
2022$6,392,517$6,698,320$6,698,634$3144.8%No
2023$6,698,320$6,946,016$6,946,016$03.7%No
2024$7,333,581$7,465,644$7,515,356$49,7121.8%No
2025$7,103,344$7,427,496$7,427,496$04.6%No
2026$7,279,872$7,582,221$7,582,221$04.2%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 Designation26.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation0No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation3.3No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation6.7No Designation10fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation3.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 27.9% ($2,966,210 of $10,617,189) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 43.3% ($3,932,811 of $9,080,489) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 50.5% ($4,623,213 of $9,161,522) 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 (3 meetings)

Machine transcripts; listen before citing. Meeting Insights library

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