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West Charlton Fire District

Fire district · Saratoga County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 411114709000

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

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Recurring deficits our calculation

General fund spending (incl. transfers out) exceeded revenues (incl. transfers in) in 2023, 2024, 2025, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2023, 2024 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2024 ⓘ · afr-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorWest Charlton Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending16%13.1%57th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-10%17.4%22nd98AFR 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$59k$117k$176k$235k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $125kRevenue 2020: $125kRevenue 2021: $136kRevenue 2022: $131kRevenue 2023: $137kRevenue 2024: $144kRevenue 2025: $146kSpending 2019: $150kSpending 2020: $99kSpending 2021: $98kSpending 2022: $144kSpending 2023: $235kSpending 2024: $157kSpending 2025: $88k

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)
$-56k$-39k$-22k$-5k$11k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-56kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $10kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $11kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-24kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-2kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-1kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $0k

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$77k$153k$230k$306k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $306kDebt outstanding 2020: $264kDebt outstanding 2021: $224kDebt outstanding 2022: $182kDebt outstanding 2023: $165kDebt outstanding 2024: $157kDebt outstanding 2025: $148kDebt service 2019: $34kDebt service 2020: $48kDebt service 2021: $48kDebt service 2022: $48kDebt service 2023: $23kDebt service 2024: $14kDebt service 2025: $14k

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)$125,052$149,528$124,765$180,828$120,566$0$0$34,270$306,269afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$125,435$98,823$125,257$114,823$124,810$0$0$48,140$264,474afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$136,154$97,657$128,409$116,925$128,113$0$0$48,320$223,675afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$131,323$143,881$131,006$154,551$130,832$0$0$48,320$181,890afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$137,013$234,534$280,799$283,219$134,303$0$0$22,621$165,004afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$143,853$156,553$211,187$212,637$137,934$0$0$14,050$156,541afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$146,234$87,924$153,900$154,379$141,621$0$0$14,050$147,951afr-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$116,593$120,566$120,566$03.4%No
2020$120,566$124,810$124,810$03.5%No
2021$124,810$128,113$128,113$02.7%No
2022$128,113$130,832$130,832$02.1%No
2023$130,832$134,303$134,303$02.7%No
2024$134,303$137,934$137,934$02.7%No
2025$137,934$141,621$141,621$02.7%No
2026$141,621$145,140$145,147$72.5%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-west-charlton-fire-district.json