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Schuyler Heights Fire District

Fire district · Albany County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 011118708000

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 2025 (by $17,594, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorSchuyler Heights Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending15.4%13.1%55th103AFR 2024 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2024 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years16.8%17.4%48th98AFR 2020–2024 (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$203k$405k$608k$811k201920202021202220232024Revenue 2019: $708kRevenue 2020: $640kRevenue 2021: $702kRevenue 2022: $622kRevenue 2023: $796kRevenue 2024: $811kSpending 2019: $443kSpending 2020: $639kSpending 2021: $566kSpending 2022: $471kSpending 2023: $625kSpending 2024: $746k

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$66k$132k$198k$264k201920202021202220232024General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $264kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $136kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $160kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $171kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $64k

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$279k$558k$836k$1.1M201920202021202220232024Debt outstanding 2019: $447kDebt outstanding 2020: $388kDebt outstanding 2021: $1.1MDebt outstanding 2022: $1.0MDebt outstanding 2023: $892kDebt outstanding 2024: $798kDebt service 2019: $77kDebt service 2020: $77kDebt service 2021: $77kDebt service 2022: $136kDebt service 2023: $137kDebt service 2024: $115k

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)$707,539$443,107$707,539$443,107$600,187$0$0$76,514$447,099afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$639,579$639,381$639,579$639,381$606,330$0$0$76,514$388,156afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$702,439$565,989$702,439$565,989$619,162$0$0$76,514$1,115,128afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$622,023$471,221$630,754$471,221$669,358$0$0$136,248$1,005,143afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$795,911$624,559$795,911$624,559$679,203$0$0$136,533$892,269afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$810,899$746,481$810,899$746,481$698,329$0$0$115,091$797,607afr-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$596,000$600,187$622,344$22,1570.7%No
2020$600,187$606,330$622,383$16,0531%No
2021$606,330$619,458$625,125$5,6672.2%No
2022$619,458$669,358$638,651$-30,7078.1%Yes
2023$669,358$679,070$684,247$5,1771.5%No
2024$679,070$697,500$701,084$3,5842.7%No
2025$697,500$739,600$722,006$-17,5946%Yes

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 audits (1)

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

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