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 Whitehall

Village · Washington County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 530490705350

Population 2,479 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 2,492) 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 2022, 2023, 2024, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2022, 2023, 2024 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2022 ⓘ · afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2024 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $35,814, 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 Capital Region villages

IndicatorVillage of WhitehallPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$1,528$1,29561st47AFR 2024, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$732$38086th47AFR 2024 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$2,992$1,15377th42AFR 2024 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending12.5%6.5%76th48AFR 2024 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue6.7%5.9%63rd48AFR 2024 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue1.5%14%5th48AFR 2024 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)5.1%42.4%13th42OSC FSMS FY2024
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-3.8%20.8%18th46AFR 2020–2024 (our calc)
Levy growth10.2%10.7%45th462021–2026 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$984k$2.0M$3.0M$3.9M201920202021202220232024Revenue 2019: $3.2MRevenue 2020: $3.7MRevenue 2021: $3.8MRevenue 2022: $3.5MRevenue 2023: $3.7MRevenue 2024: $3.7MSpending 2019: $3.2MSpending 2020: $3.9MSpending 2021: $3.8MSpending 2022: $3.8MSpending 2023: $3.9MSpending 2024: $3.8M

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)
$-259k$-178k$-97k$-15k$66k201920202021202220232024General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $66kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-219kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-120kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-259kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-89kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-30k

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$2.3M$4.6M$6.9M$9.2M201920202021202220232024Debt outstanding 2019: $9.2MDebt outstanding 2020: $8.3MDebt outstanding 2021: $8.0MDebt outstanding 2022: $8.1MDebt outstanding 2023: $7.8MDebt outstanding 2024: $7.4MDebt service 2019: $369kDebt service 2020: $622kDebt service 2021: $442kDebt service 2022: $454kDebt service 2023: $444kDebt service 2024: $474k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$465k$930k$1.4M$1.9M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $1.7MTotal levy 2022: $1.7MTotal levy 2023: $1.7MTotal levy 2024: $1.8MTotal levy 2025: $1.9MTotal levy 2026: $1.9M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY20232.4%FY20245.1%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20195 No DesignationFY20208.3 No DesignationFY202117.9 No DesignationFY202242.9 No DesignationFY202346.3 Susceptible Fiscal StressFY202443.3 No DesignationFY20250 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)$3,222,586$3,236,422$2,139,929$2,074,026$1,731,279$34,391$241,789$369,454$9,242,014afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-05-31)$3,661,300$3,936,605$2,143,823$2,363,108$1,733,133$35,953$119,241$621,640$8,316,211afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-05-31)$3,797,926$3,834,061$2,138,874$2,258,758$1,763,034$37,281$109,687$442,371$7,988,382afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-05-31)$3,477,805$3,836,693$2,317,896$2,577,273$1,781,568$40,764$159,111$454,238$8,089,754afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-05-31)$3,747,220$3,880,323$2,397,283$2,486,178$1,783,016$48,985$187,538$443,732$7,829,089afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-05-31)$3,666,423$3,787,522$2,505,464$2,535,227$1,814,481$56,167$244,038$474,199$7,418,057afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
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). No AFR data in OSC bulk files for 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$1,662,609$1,660,621$1,725,430$64,809-0.1%No
2020$1,660,621$1,658,785$1,722,425$63,640-0.1%No
2021$1,658,785$1,688,312$1,718,875$30,5631.8%No
2022$1,688,312$1,710,429$1,758,132$47,7031.3%No
2023$1,710,429$1,714,637$1,777,200$62,5630.3%No
2024$1,714,637$1,748,930$1,775,588$26,6582%No
2025$1,748,930$1,856,111$1,820,297$-35,8146.1%Yes
2026$1,856,111$1,858,608$1,912,846$54,2380.1%No
2027$1,858,608$1,886,342$1,924,443$38,1011.5%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 Designation5Susceptible Environmental Stress33.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation8.3Susceptible Environmental Stress33.3fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation17.9Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation42.9Susceptible Environmental Stress30fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023Susceptible Fiscal Stress46.3No Designation26.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation43.3No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025Not Filed–––fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 2.4% ($59,530 of $2,486,178) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 5.1% ($129,559 of $2,535,227) 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 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

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

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