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Stephentown No. 1 Fire District

Fire district · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 381180408400

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 $7,796, override planned), 2027 (by $5,553, 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 years50.8%17.4%74th98AFR 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$85k$170k$255k$340k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $138kRevenue 2020: $146kRevenue 2021: $139kRevenue 2022: $140kRevenue 2023: $169kRevenue 2024: $340kRevenue 2025: $274kSpending 2019: $149kSpending 2020: $135kSpending 2021: $74kSpending 2022: $89kSpending 2023: $169kSpending 2024: $248kSpending 2025: $112k

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)
$-51k$-20k$12k$44k$76k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-51kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-28kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $24kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-29kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $22kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $76kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $45k

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)$137,742$149,138$137,674$189,138$136,500$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$146,476$134,791$146,373$174,791$137,000$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$138,631$74,391$138,371$114,391$137,000$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$140,155$88,706$140,112$168,706$137,000$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$168,704$168,884$161,937$139,602$137,000$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$339,598$247,603$328,842$253,242$137,000$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$273,661$112,164$267,388$222,164$151,000$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$137,000$137,000$142,916$5,9160%No
2020$137,000$137,000$142,848$5,8480%No
2021$137,000$137,000$141,753$4,7530%No
2022$137,000$137,000$142,844$5,8440%No
2023$137,000$137,000$142,470$5,4700%No
2024$137,000$137,000$142,380$5,3800%No
2025$137,000$151,000$143,204$-7,79610.2%Yes
2026$151,000$154,000$154,990$9902%No
2027$154,000$164,000$158,447$-5,5536.5%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-stephentown-no-1-fire-district.json