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Chelsea Fire District

Fire district · Dutchess County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 131186802500

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

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Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorChelsea Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending13.3%7.2%64th170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%41st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-13.5%23.1%18th161AFR 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$188k$376k$564k$752k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $465kRevenue 2020: $466kRevenue 2021: $577kRevenue 2022: $662kRevenue 2023: $616kRevenue 2024: $743kRevenue 2025: $752kSpending 2019: $240kSpending 2020: $403kSpending 2021: $581kSpending 2022: $507kSpending 2023: $571kSpending 2024: $724kSpending 2025: $502k

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)
$-4k$60k$123k$186k$249k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $169kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $15kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-4kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $155kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $46kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $19kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $249k

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$166k$331k$497k$663k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2021: $663kDebt outstanding 2022: $0kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $171kDebt service 2022: $67kDebt service 2023: $67kDebt service 2024: $67kDebt service 2025: $67k

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)$465,056$240,400$462,998$293,865$429,078$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$466,051$403,007$464,571$449,470$443,293$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$577,417$581,092$577,417$581,092$526,653$0$0$170,611$662,722afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$662,052$506,700$662,052$506,700$539,315$0$0$66,897$0afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$616,404$570,731$616,404$570,731$556,194$0$0$66,897–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$743,200$723,920$743,200$723,920$570,529$0$0$66,897–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$751,800$502,478$751,800$502,478$593,795$0$0$66,897–afr-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$405,984$428,921$419,570$-9,3515.7%Yes
2020$428,981$443,293$443,293$03.3%No
2021$443,293$526,653$454,936$-71,71718.8%Yes
2022$526,653$539,315$541,591$2,2762.4%No
2023$539,315$556,194$556,228$343.1%No
2024$556,194$570,529$570,529$02.6%No
2025$570,529$0$593,695$593,695-100%No
2026$593,695$634,878$634,878$06.9%No
2027$634,878$658,002$658,002$03.6%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/dutchess-county/fd-chelsea-fire-district.json