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Guilderland Fire District

Fire district · Albany County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 011135504000

Fire districts have no Census population; per-capita figures are not calculated.

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Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2024 (by $23,813, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorGuilderland Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending33.4%13.1%84th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-31.6%17.4%5th98AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)

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$363k$725k$1.1M$1.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $858kRevenue 2020: $888kRevenue 2021: $1.1MRevenue 2022: $958kRevenue 2023: $1.1MRevenue 2024: $1.1MRevenue 2025: $1.2MSpending 2019: $663kSpending 2020: $739kSpending 2021: $1.5MSpending 2022: $996kSpending 2023: $837kSpending 2024: $867kSpending 2025: $992k

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)
$-373k$-218k$-63k$92k$247k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $195kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $149kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-373kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-38kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $243kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $247kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $160k

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$658k$1.3M$2.0M$2.6M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $2.6MDebt outstanding 2020: $2.4MDebt outstanding 2021: $2.1MDebt outstanding 2022: $1.8MDebt outstanding 2023: $1.5MDebt outstanding 2024: $1.2MDebt outstanding 2025: $945kDebt service 2019: $322kDebt service 2020: $327kDebt service 2021: $327kDebt service 2022: $331kDebt service 2023: $326kDebt service 2024: $329kDebt service 2025: $331k

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

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)$858,261$662,945$858,261$662,945$851,488$0$0$322,488$2,630,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$887,772$739,103$887,772$739,103$869,288$0$0$327,288$2,365,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$1,077,601$1,450,917$1,077,601$1,450,917$885,598$0$0$326,938$2,095,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$958,263$996,150$958,263$996,150$905,501$0$0$331,439$1,815,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$1,080,358$837,240$1,080,358$837,240$983,685$0$0$325,512$1,535,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,113,789$866,862$1,113,789$866,862$1,039,391$0$0$328,712$1,245,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$1,151,928$992,000$1,151,928$992,000$1,067,721$0$0$331,338$945,000afr-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$804,583$840,470$840,510$404.5%No
2020$840,470$858,271$858,311$402.1%No
2021$858,271$874,560$874,574$141.9%No
2022$874,560$898,070$898,084$142.7%No
2023$898,070$967,668$931,438$-36,2307.8%Yes
2024$967,668$1,026,974$1,003,161$-23,8136.1%Yes
2025$1,026,974$1,055,304$1,055,304$02.8%No
2026$1,055,304$1,079,995$1,079,995$02.3%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.

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/albany-county/fd-guilderland-fire-district.json