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Ballston Lake Fire District

Fire district · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 411104901500

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 $14,988, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorBallston Lake Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending2.5%13.1%32nd103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years191.7%17.4%94th98AFR 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$210k$419k$629k$838k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $314kRevenue 2020: $406kRevenue 2021: $282kRevenue 2022: $233kRevenue 2023: $387kRevenue 2024: $471kRevenue 2025: $446kSpending 2019: $277kSpending 2020: $402kSpending 2021: $287kSpending 2022: $307kSpending 2023: $230kSpending 2024: $332kSpending 2025: $838k

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)
$-392k$-259k$-126k$6k$139k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $22kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-21kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $11kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-74kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-7kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $139kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-392k

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$42k$84k$126k$168k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $25kDebt outstanding 2020: $0kDebt outstanding 2021: $168kDebt outstanding 2022: $152kDebt outstanding 2023: $134kDebt outstanding 2024: $116kDebt outstanding 2025: $98kDebt service 2019: $26kDebt service 2020: $26kDebt service 2021: $21kDebt service 2022: $21kDebt service 2023: $21kDebt service 2024: $21kDebt service 2025: $21k

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)$314,206$277,444$313,890$291,444$197,822$0$0$25,708$25,082afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$405,647$402,088$395,232$416,235$204,341$0$0$25,709$0afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$281,552$287,326$274,773$263,326$209,521$0$0$21,138$168,487afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$233,360$306,921$233,070$306,921$216,853$0$0$21,138$151,561afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$386,738$230,436$417,287$424,436$320,003$0$0$21,138$134,213afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$470,806$332,122$506,081$367,397$346,450$0$0$21,138$116,430afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$446,425$838,005$446,425$838,005$353,379$0$0$21,138$98,203afr-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$192,729$197,822$197,822$02.6%No
2020$197,822$204,341$204,341$03.3%No
2021$204,341$209,521$209,521$02.5%No
2022$209,521$216,853$216,853$03.5%No
2023$216,853$320,003$222,163$-97,84047.6%Yes
2024$320,003$346,450$331,462$-14,9888.3%Yes
2025$346,450$353,379$356,489$3,1102%No
2026$353,379$360,446$367,161$6,7152%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/saratoga-county/fd-ballston-lake-fire-district.json