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Niskayuna Fire District No. 1

Fire district · Schenectady County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 421158702500 · OSC name “Niskayuna Fire District No. 1 Fire District”

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

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorNiskayuna Fire District No. 1Peer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending5.7%13.1%34th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years49.9%17.4%73rd98AFR 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$1.7M$3.5M$5.2M$6.9M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $4.3MRevenue 2020: $4.5MRevenue 2021: $4.7MRevenue 2022: $5.2MRevenue 2023: $5.9MRevenue 2024: $6.2MRevenue 2025: $6.3MSpending 2019: $4.0MSpending 2020: $4.2MSpending 2021: $4.6MSpending 2022: $4.8MSpending 2023: $5.1MSpending 2024: $5.6MSpending 2025: $6.9M

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)
$-606k$-258k$89k$437k$785k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $239kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $276kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $82kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $362kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $785kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $543kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-606k

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$530k$1.1M$1.6M$2.1M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $2.1MDebt outstanding 2020: $1.8MDebt outstanding 2021: $1.4MDebt outstanding 2022: $1.1MDebt outstanding 2023: $750kDebt outstanding 2024: $380kDebt outstanding 2025: $0kDebt service 2019: $392kDebt service 2020: $390kDebt service 2021: $392kDebt service 2022: $388kDebt service 2023: $388kDebt service 2024: $393kDebt service 2025: $391k

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)$4,252,604$4,013,729$4,252,604$4,013,729$4,213,813$0$0$392,125$2,120,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$4,485,679$4,210,151$4,485,679$4,210,151$4,415,370$0$0$389,813$1,790,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$4,700,468$4,618,912$4,700,468$4,618,912$4,578,232$0$0$391,563$1,450,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$5,180,012$4,818,198$5,180,012$4,818,198$4,849,937$0$0$387,638$1,105,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$5,900,699$5,115,491$5,900,699$5,115,491$4,956,193$0$0$388,150$750,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$6,154,872$5,612,335$6,154,872$5,612,335$5,051,661$0$0$392,500$380,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$6,319,388$6,925,625$6,319,388$6,925,625$5,251,367$0$0$391,400$0afr-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$3,886,152$4,201,555$4,081,401$-120,1548.1%Yes
2020$4,201,555$4,402,542$4,298,091$-104,4514.8%Yes
2021$4,402,542$4,564,904$4,503,155$-61,7493.7%Yes
2022$4,564,904$4,835,880$4,696,414$-139,4665.9%Yes
2023$4,835,880$4,944,299$4,958,017$13,7182.2%No
2024$4,944,299$5,037,396$5,109,632$72,2361.9%No
2025$5,037,396$5,236,604$5,289,699$53,0954%No
2026$5,236,604$5,381,098$5,395,082$13,9842.8%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/schenectady-county/fd-niskayuna-fire-district-no-1-fire-district.json