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Brighton Fire District

Fire district · Monroe County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 261109202800

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 $853,488, override planned), 2025 (by $632,883, override planned), 2026 (by $675,163, override planned), 2027 (by $1,201,030, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Rochester fire districts

IndicatorBrighton Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%2.9%22nd68AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0.1%0%92nd68AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years58.7%32.3%68th60AFR 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$2.6M$5.2M$7.9M$10.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $6.9MRevenue 2020: $6.7MRevenue 2021: $7.0MRevenue 2022: $7.9MRevenue 2023: $8.2MRevenue 2024: $9.1MRevenue 2025: $10.2MSpending 2019: $7.4MSpending 2020: $6.3MSpending 2021: $6.6MSpending 2022: $6.9MSpending 2023: $8.0MSpending 2024: $8.3MSpending 2025: $10.5M

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)
$-464k$-97k$270k$637k$1.0M2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-464kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $380kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $347kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $1.0MGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $260kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $879kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-259k

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

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)$6,900,380$7,364,718$6,900,380$7,364,718$6,226,618$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$6,698,148$6,318,279$6,698,148$6,318,279$6,350,398$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$6,956,118$6,608,856$6,956,118$6,608,856$6,524,104$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$7,868,028$6,863,756$7,868,028$6,863,756$7,308,974$0$2,400$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$8,242,407$7,982,826$8,242,407$7,982,826$7,451,341$0$119,032$3,780–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$9,142,649$8,263,259$9,142,649$8,263,259$8,525,821$0$2,100$3,780–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$10,229,023$10,488,520$10,229,023$10,488,520$9,374,301$0$6,200$1,260–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$6,088,722$6,224,000$6,226,612$2,6122.2%No
2020$6,224,000$6,347,722$6,357,496$9,7742%No
2021$6,347,722$6,513,379$6,522,973$9,5942.6%No
2022$6,513,379$7,305,922$6,653,668$-652,25412.2%Yes
2023$7,305,922$7,448,248$7,452,374$4,1262%No
2024$7,448,248$8,522,250$7,668,762$-853,48814.4%Yes
2025$8,522,250$9,370,550$8,737,667$-632,88310%Yes
2026$9,370,550$10,299,167$9,624,004$-675,1639.9%Yes
2027$10,299,167$11,707,250$10,506,220$-1,201,03013.7%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.

OSC audits (1)

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

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/monroe-county/fd-brighton-fire-district.json