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Petersburgh No. 1 Fire District

Fire district · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 381165607000

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 $6,597, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorThis entityPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%13.1%16th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-2.3%17.4%29th98AFR 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$61k$121k$182k$242k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $105kRevenue 2020: $188kRevenue 2021: $115kRevenue 2022: $129kRevenue 2023: $242kRevenue 2024: $149kRevenue 2025: $163kSpending 2019: $102kSpending 2020: $78kSpending 2021: $152kSpending 2022: $87kSpending 2023: $242kSpending 2024: $99kSpending 2025: $149k

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)
$-145k$-81k$-18k$46k$110k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $3kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $110kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-36kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $42kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $50kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-145k

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$100k$200k$300k$400k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2025: $400kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $0kDebt service 2024: $0kDebt service 2025: $0k

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)$105,023$101,712$105,023$101,712$105,000$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$187,988$77,884$187,988$77,884$105,000$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$115,465$151,964$115,465$151,964$106,500$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$129,138$86,987$129,138$86,987$108,500$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$242,006$242,274$242,006$242,274$110,500$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$148,918$98,575$148,918$98,575$121,450$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$163,198$148,530$163,198$308,366$123,850$0$0$0$400,000afr-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$101,200$105,000$104,802$-1983.8%Yes
2020$105,000$105,000$107,303$2,3030%No
2021$105,000$106,500$108,248$1,7481.4%No
2022$106,500$108,500$110,384$1,8841.9%No
2023$108,500$110,500$112,802$2,3021.8%No
2024$110,500$121,450$114,853$-6,5979.9%Yes
2025$121,450$123,850$125,873$2,0232%No
2026$123,850$129,350$129,377$274.4%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-petersburgh-no-1-fire-district.json