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 White Creek

Town · Washington County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 530390600000

Population 3,274 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 3,282) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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AFR not filed in time for FSMS score

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities); last filed in time for a score: 2023. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of White CreekPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$464$9137th101AFR 2024, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$332$40937th101AFR 2024 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt service % of operating spending0%2.4%16th101AFR 2024 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue25.1%12.6%87th101AFR 2024 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue3.9%22.6%3rd101AFR 2024 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)36.4%48.1%38th96OSC FSMS FY2023
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years19.1%26.7%34th100AFR 2020–2024 (our calc)
Levy growth13.1%13.2%48th1012021–2026 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$458k$917k$1.4M$1.8M201920202021202220232024Revenue 2019: $1.3MRevenue 2020: $1.3MRevenue 2021: $1.5MRevenue 2022: $1.6MRevenue 2023: $1.6MRevenue 2024: $1.6MSpending 2019: $1.3MSpending 2020: $1.3MSpending 2021: $1.8MSpending 2022: $1.3MSpending 2023: $1.3MSpending 2024: $1.5M

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$16k$31k$47k$62k201920202021202220232024General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $31kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $41kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $62kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $62kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $60kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $26k

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$84k$167k$251k$334k201920202021202220232024Debt outstanding 2019: $334kDebt outstanding 2020: $244kDebt outstanding 2021: $85kDebt outstanding 2022: $0kDebt service 2019: $156kDebt service 2020: $152kDebt service 2021: $162kDebt service 2022: $86kDebt service 2023: $0kDebt service 2024: $0k

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

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$289k$577k$866k$1.2M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $1.0MTotal levy 2022: $1.0MTotal levy 2023: $1.1MTotal levy 2024: $1.1MTotal levy 2025: $1.1MTotal levy 2026: $1.2M

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

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202336.4%

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

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20190 Not filedFY20200 Not filedFY20210 Not filedFY20220 Not filedFY20233.3 No DesignationFY20240 Not filedFY20250 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 2019-12-31)$1,337,442$1,292,880$303,112$271,747$985,244$42,122$232,482$155,746$334,115afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$1,336,247$1,276,514$329,334$288,732$1,010,383$45,595$246,191$152,265$243,926afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$1,524,543$1,833,781$379,184$317,557$1,033,936$46,091$369,873$161,743$85,403afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$1,570,100$1,349,880$345,685$283,489$1,052,185$53,283$359,878$86,019$0afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$1,557,577$1,253,569$346,263$286,434$1,074,865$57,838$367,469$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,598,208$1,520,199$345,365$319,749$1,087,348$62,753$400,560$0–afr-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$948,050$971,589$973,461$1,8722.5%No
2020$971,589$996,479$1,005,624$9,1452.6%No
2021$996,479$1,020,293$1,038,017$17,7242.4%No
2022$1,020,293$1,037,688$1,061,087$23,3991.7%No
2023$1,037,688$1,062,844$1,076,275$13,4312.4%No
2024$1,062,844$1,080,780$1,113,889$33,1091.7%No
2025$1,080,780$1,113,187$1,124,774$11,5873%No
2026$1,113,187$1,155,012$1,159,739$4,7273.8%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
2019Not filed–––fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020Not filed–––fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021Not filed–––fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022Not filed–––fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation3.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024Not filed–––fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025Not Filed–––fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 36.4% ($104,239 of $286,434) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ

Filing status

Listed on OSC's FSMS 2025 not-filed (municipalities). Last filed in time for a score: 2023. fsms-notfiled-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (2)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/washington-county/white-creek.json