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Northside Fire District

Fire district · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 411187506500

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

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorNorthside Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending21.7%13.1%70th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-27%17.4%10th98AFR 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$83k$166k$249k$331k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $303kRevenue 2020: $330kRevenue 2021: $295kRevenue 2022: $216kRevenue 2023: $225kRevenue 2024: $229kRevenue 2025: $234kSpending 2019: $331kSpending 2020: $289kSpending 2021: $305kSpending 2022: $221kSpending 2023: $202kSpending 2024: $247kSpending 2025: $223k

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)
$-28k$-11k$6k$24k$41k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-28kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $41kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-10kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-5kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $23kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-18kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $11k

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$141k$282k$423k$564k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $564kDebt outstanding 2020: $454kDebt outstanding 2021: $339kDebt outstanding 2022: $304kDebt outstanding 2023: $265kDebt outstanding 2024: $225kDebt outstanding 2025: $185kDebt service 2019: $134kDebt service 2020: $134kDebt service 2021: $133kDebt service 2022: $47kDebt service 2023: $51kDebt service 2024: $50kDebt service 2025: $48k

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)$303,163$331,355$303,163$331,355$303,163$0$0$134,063$564,494afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$330,063$289,173$330,063$289,173$330,063$0$0$133,813$454,494afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$295,327$304,915$295,327$304,915$295,327$0$0$133,263$339,494afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$215,687$221,111$215,687$221,111$215,687$0$0$47,369$304,494afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$224,730$201,768$224,727$201,768$224,727$0$0$51,150$265,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$229,429$247,195$229,428$247,195$229,428$0$0$49,800$225,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$234,036$222,616$234,035$222,616$234,017$0$0$48,375$185,000afr-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$297,701$303,163$303,655$4921.8%No
2020$303,163$330,063$310,275$-19,7888.9%Yes
2021$330,063$295,327$315,115$0-10.5%No
2022$295,327$215,594$321,417$105,823-27%No
2023$215,594$224,727$224,727$04.2%No
2024$224,727$229,428$229,428$02.1%No
2025$229,428$234,017$234,017$02%No
2026$234,017$238,721$238,721$02%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-northside-fire-district.json