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 Argyle

Village · Washington County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 530403000230

Population 284 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 285) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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High fund balance

OSC FSMS: assigned + unassigned general fund balance was 94.9% of gross expenditures (FY 2025); threshold > 50%.

Source: fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

Late AFR (FSMS not filed)

OSC FSMS lists this entity as "Not filed" for FY 2024: its Annual Financial Report was not filed in time to be scored. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of ArgylePeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$490$1,2955th47AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$118$3807th47AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt service % of operating spending0%6.5%6th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue5.7%5.9%47th48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue0%14%1st48AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)94.9%42.4%82nd42OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years45.8%20.8%70th46AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth11%10.7%51st462021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)3.34.239th36OSC 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$45k$90k$135k$180k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $91kRevenue 2020: $86kRevenue 2021: $91kRevenue 2022: $108kRevenue 2023: $130kRevenue 2024: $125kRevenue 2025: $180kSpending 2019: $92kSpending 2020: $67kSpending 2021: $95kSpending 2022: $84kSpending 2023: $79kSpending 2024: $96kSpending 2025: $139k

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$5k$10k$15k$20k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $10kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $16kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $15kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $18kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $19kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $12kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $20k

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$13k$25k$38k$50k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2021: $50kDebt outstanding 2022: $40kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $11kDebt service 2023: $0kDebt service 2024: $0kDebt service 2025: $0k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$9k$17k$26k$34k202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $31kTotal levy 2022: $31kTotal levy 2023: $32kTotal levy 2024: $33kTotal levy 2025: $33kTotal levy 2026: $34k

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202312.9%FY202594.9%

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 DesignationFY20216.7 No DesignationFY20223.3 No DesignationFY20233.3 No DesignationFY20240 Not filedFY20253.3 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 2019-05-31)$91,052$91,702$44,145$34,342$29,510$0$7,029$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$86,233$67,292$43,201$27,385$30,197$0$5,581$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$91,001$95,487$45,793$30,856$30,921$0$6,232$0$50,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$107,965$84,095$50,930$32,701$31,233$0$7,018$10,623$40,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$130,191$79,213$64,469$45,003$32,417$0$5,545$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$125,035$96,321$51,435$39,061$32,912$0$5,876$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-05-31)$179,924$139,227$107,300$87,465$33,614$0$10,335$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$28,716$29,290$29,290$02%No
2020$29,290$30,091$30,091$02.7%No
2021$30,091$30,746$30,746$02.2%No
2022$30,746$31,233$31,233$01.6%No
2023$31,233$32,100$32,100$02.8%No
2024$32,100$32,742$32,742$02%No
2025$32,742$33,444$33,444$02.1%No
2026$33,444$34,113$34,113$02%No
2027$34,113$35,554$35,554$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 Designation3.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation3.3Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation6.7No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation3.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024Not filed–––fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation3.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 12.9% ($5,800 of $45,003) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2025 94.9% ($83,009 of $87,465) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/washington-county/village-argyle.json