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Elba Joint Fire District

Fire district · Genesee County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 181125800300

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 $38,980, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Rochester fire districts

IndicatorElba Joint Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending2.8%2.9%49th68AFR 2024 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%45th68AFR 2024 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years598.4%32.3%98th60AFR 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$197k$393k$590k$787k201920202021202220232024Revenue 2019: $225kRevenue 2020: $242kRevenue 2021: $239kRevenue 2022: $252kRevenue 2023: $250kRevenue 2024: $401kSpending 2019: $165kSpending 2020: $113kSpending 2021: $85kSpending 2022: $123kSpending 2023: $197kSpending 2024: $787k

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)
$-338k$-221k$-105k$11k$127k201920202021202220232024General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $59kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-338kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $34kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $127kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-38kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-97k

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$37k$74k$111k$148k201920202021202220232024Debt outstanding 2020: $71kDebt outstanding 2021: $56kDebt outstanding 2022: $148kDebt outstanding 2023: $84kDebt outstanding 2024: $63kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $15kDebt service 2023: $66kDebt service 2024: $22k

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)$224,511$165,310$224,511$165,310$223,791$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$242,403$112,632$235,599$573,351$229,089$0$0$0$70,925afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$239,239$84,650$233,758$200,238$233,756$0$0$0$56,215afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$251,627$123,495$250,989$123,495$240,267$0$0$15,030$147,555afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$249,650$196,503$248,190$286,503$245,073$0$0$66,365$84,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$400,514$786,669$803,140$900,147$290,000$0$0$22,197$63,000afr-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$219,403$223,791$223,791$02%No
2020$223,791$229,089$229,089$02.4%No
2021$229,089$233,756$233,756$02%No
2022$233,756$240,267$240,267$02.8%No
2023$240,267$245,072$245,219$1472%No
2024$245,072$290,000$251,020$-38,98018.3%Yes
2025$290,000$295,800$297,072$1,2722%No
2026$295,800$301,927$303,199$1,2722.1%No
2027$301,927$309,977$309,977$02.7%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/genesee-county/fd-elba-joint-fire-district.json