Civic Finance

Budgets, levies, debt, fund balance and fiscal-stress data for local governments and school districts, straight from state filings.

Capital Region › Fire districts › Overlapping entities

Grafton Fire District

Fire district · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 381133504200

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

Flags

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2025 (by $8,495, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorGrafton Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending43.7%13.1%96th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years6.9%17.4%34th98AFR 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$48k$97k$145k$193k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $106kRevenue 2020: $136kRevenue 2021: $109kRevenue 2022: $119kRevenue 2023: $130kRevenue 2024: $126kRevenue 2025: $129kSpending 2019: $81kSpending 2020: $119kSpending 2021: $109kSpending 2022: $193kSpending 2023: $173kSpending 2024: $120kSpending 2025: $117k

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)
$0k$28k$56k$85k$113k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $113kGeneral 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$63k$126k$189k$252k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2023: $252kDebt outstanding 2024: $209kDebt outstanding 2025: $196kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $48kDebt service 2024: $51kDebt service 2025: $51k

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)$106,345$81,220$106,028$106,220$99,080$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$136,104$118,961$135,973$135,961$102,297$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$109,208$109,206$109,160$109,206$102,040$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$119,167$193,482$117,676$117,487$103,500$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$130,402$173,037$173,059$173,037$108,400$0$0$48,000$252,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$126,379$120,270$233,043$120,270$111,295$0$0$51,000$208,500afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$129,487$116,790$129,351$116,790$122,425$0$0$51,001$196,255afr-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$96,550$99,080$99,082$22.6%No
2020$99,080$102,297$102,297$03.3%No
2021$102,297$102,040$104,121$2,081-0.2%No
2022$102,040$106,007$106,007$03.9%No
2023$106,007$108,400$108,419$192.3%No
2024$108,400$111,295$111,295$02.7%No
2025$111,295$122,425$113,930$-8,49510%Yes
2026$122,425$124,365$124,874$5091.6%No
2027$124,365$127,175$127,488$3132.3%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/rensselaer-county/fd-grafton-fire-district.json