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West Sand Lake No. 1 Fire District

Fire district · Rensselaer County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 381174109000

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

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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 years77.6%17.4%85th98AFR 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$328k$656k$985k$1.3M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $750kRevenue 2020: $869kRevenue 2021: $837kRevenue 2022: $693kRevenue 2023: $867kRevenue 2024: $941kRevenue 2025: $1.2MSpending 2019: $585kSpending 2020: $993kSpending 2021: $590kSpending 2022: $1.3MSpending 2023: $613kSpending 2024: $551kSpending 2025: $1.0M

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)
$-620k$-367k$-115k$138k$390k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $164kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-125kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $247kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-620kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $255kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $390kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $143k

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)$749,526$585,150$749,526$585,150$728,665$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$868,674$993,331$868,674$993,331$736,977$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$837,474$590,349$837,474$590,349$766,950$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$693,395$1,312,929$693,395$1,312,929$775,500$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$867,390$612,646$867,390$612,646$791,450$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$941,096$550,714$941,096$550,714$810,464$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$1,191,220$1,048,331$1,191,220$1,048,331$847,049$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$707,094$728,644$739,697$11,0533.1%No
2020$728,644$736,977$763,337$26,3601.1%No
2021$736,977$766,950$768,906$1,9564.1%No
2022$766,950$775,500$790,034$14,5341.1%No
2023$775,500$791,450$808,635$17,1852.1%No
2024$791,450$810,464$823,768$13,3042.4%No
2025$810,464$847,049$847,049$04.5%No
2026$847,049$844,731$867,792$23,061-0.3%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-west-sand-lake-no-1-fire-district.json