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South Schodack Fire District

Fire district · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 381175308600

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 2025 (by $15,655, override planned), 2026 (by $44,186, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

No recent AFR in OSC data

Most recent Annual Financial Report year in OSC bulk data: 2023. This is filing status, not a stress designation.

Source: afr-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorSouth Schodack Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending38.9%13.1%89th103AFR 2023 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2023 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years92.9%17.4%88th98AFR 2019–2023 (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$81k$162k$243k$324k20192020202120222023Revenue 2019: $181kRevenue 2020: $181kRevenue 2021: $324kRevenue 2022: $274kRevenue 2023: $303kSpending 2019: $112kSpending 2020: $123kSpending 2021: $261kSpending 2022: $167kSpending 2023: $216k

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)
$-7k$6k$18k$31k$43k20192020202120222023General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-7kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $43kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $20k

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$400k20192020202120222023Debt outstanding 2020: $400kDebt outstanding 2021: $322kDebt outstanding 2022: $243kDebt outstanding 2023: $163kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $83kDebt service 2022: $84kDebt service 2023: $84k

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)$181,176$112,233$181,162$172,233$176,570$0$1,500$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$180,619$122,590$180,609$187,590$180,070$0$0$0$400,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$323,526$260,543$323,524$329,173$274,104$0$0$83,234$322,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$273,768$167,471$275,990$232,919$281,815$0$0$83,816$243,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$303,481$216,476$300,628$280,943$287,315$0$0$84,223$163,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
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 2024, 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$173,170$176,770$179,305$2,5352.1%No
2020$176,770$180,270$183,093$2,8232%No
2021$180,270$274,104$187,860$-86,24452.1%Yes
2022$274,104$281,815$282,018$2032.8%No
2023$281,815$287,515$290,213$2,6982%No
2024$288,463$292,963$297,865$4,9021.6%No
2025$288,463$316,886$301,231$-15,6559.9%Yes
2026$316,886$369,058$324,872$-44,18616.5%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/rensselaer-county/fd-south-schodack-fire-district.json