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Lake Shore Fire District

Fire district · Monroe County · Rochester · OSC municipal code 261134104500

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 $87,933, override planned), 2025 (by $261,425, override planned), 2026 (by $215,327, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Rochester fire districts

IndicatorLake Shore Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%2.9%22nd68AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%45th68AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years71.5%32.3%74th60AFR 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$964k$1.9M$2.9M$3.9M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $2.2MRevenue 2020: $2.1MRevenue 2021: $2.4MRevenue 2022: $2.3MRevenue 2023: $2.9MRevenue 2024: $3.1MRevenue 2025: $3.4MSpending 2019: $1.8MSpending 2020: $2.1MSpending 2021: $2.2MSpending 2022: $2.1MSpending 2023: $2.4MSpending 2024: $2.9MSpending 2025: $3.9M

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)
$-421k$-200k$21k$243k$464k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $356kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $73kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $134kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $197kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $464kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $202kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-421k

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)$2,154,915$1,799,141$2,154,915$1,799,141$2,085,010$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$2,139,428$2,066,092$2,139,428$2,066,092$2,085,010$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$2,383,287$2,248,856$2,383,287$2,248,856$2,136,240$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$2,290,797$2,094,050$2,290,797$2,094,050$2,251,550$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$2,886,600$2,422,310$2,886,600$2,422,310$2,644,300$0$9,374$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$3,065,885$2,864,255$3,065,885$2,864,255$2,805,325$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$3,435,085$3,856,420$3,435,085$3,856,420$3,137,175$0$0$0–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$1,645,339$2,085,010$1,687,812$-397,19826.7%Yes
2020$2,085,010$2,126,710$2,126,710$02%No
2021$2,085,010$2,136,240$2,168,145$31,9052.5%No
2022$2,136,240$2,251,550$2,203,521$-48,0295.4%Yes
2023$2,251,550$2,644,300$2,305,767$-338,53317.4%Yes
2024$2,644,300$2,805,325$2,717,392$-87,9336.1%Yes
2025$2,805,325$3,137,175$2,875,750$-261,42511.8%Yes
2026$3,137,175$3,434,700$3,219,373$-215,3279.5%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/monroe-county/fd-lake-shore-fire-district.json