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Mellenville Fire District

Fire district · Columbia County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 101116905500

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

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Recurring deficits our calculation

General fund spending (incl. transfers out) exceeded revenues (incl. transfers in) in 2023, 2024, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2023, 2024 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2024 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $55,310, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorMellenville Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending18.6%7.2%76th170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%41st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years44.8%23.1%65th161AFR 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$83k$165k$248k$330k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $190kRevenue 2020: $204kRevenue 2021: $213kRevenue 2022: $222kRevenue 2023: $226kRevenue 2024: $307kRevenue 2025: $330kSpending 2019: $145kSpending 2020: $161kSpending 2021: $219kSpending 2022: $170kSpending 2023: $231kSpending 2024: $315kSpending 2025: $318k

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)
$-45k$-21k$4k$28k$53k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-45kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $43kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $53kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-5kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $13k

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$135k$270k$405k$540k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $250kDebt outstanding 2020: $232kDebt outstanding 2021: $215kDebt outstanding 2022: $197kDebt outstanding 2023: $180kDebt outstanding 2024: $540kDebt outstanding 2025: $503kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $24kDebt service 2021: $23kDebt service 2022: $23kDebt service 2023: $23kDebt service 2024: $23kDebt service 2025: $59k

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)$190,162$144,607$190,162$235,205$175,400$0$0$0$250,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$203,615$160,755$203,615$160,755$201,674$0$0$23,578$232,328afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$213,349$219,210$213,349$219,210$204,473$0$0$23,388$214,980afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$222,122$169,612$222,122$169,612$212,855$0$0$23,387$197,425afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$225,861$231,225$225,861$231,225$219,772$0$0$23,387$179,624afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$306,717$315,343$306,717$315,343$193,567$0$53,750$23,387$539,624afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$330,235$317,508$330,235$317,508$230,292$0$0$58,979$502,963afr-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$173,100$175,400$177,003$1,6031.3%No
2020$175,400$179,674$179,856$1822.4%No
2021$179,674$182,473$182,732$2591.6%No
2022$182,473$186,072$186,122$502%No
2023$186,072$189,772$191,179$1,4072%No
2024$189,772$198,130$198,130$04.4%No
2025$198,130$258,979$203,669$-55,31030.7%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.

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/columbia-county/fd-mellenville-fire-district.json