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Quaker Street Fire District

Fire district · Schenectady County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 421124207500

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

Source: afr-2024 ⓘ · afr-2025 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorQuaker Street Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending9.6%13.1%42nd103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years18.7%17.4%54th98AFR 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$47k$94k$141k$188k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $135kRevenue 2020: $142kRevenue 2021: $136kRevenue 2022: $153kRevenue 2023: $169kRevenue 2024: $152kRevenue 2025: $157kSpending 2019: $129kSpending 2020: $188kSpending 2021: $135kSpending 2022: $146kSpending 2023: $164kSpending 2024: $167kSpending 2025: $160k

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)
$-47k$-34k$-20k$-7k$6k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-47kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $2kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $6kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $4kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-10k

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$16k$32k$48k$64k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $21kDebt outstanding 2020: $21kDebt outstanding 2021: $0kDebt outstanding 2022: $64kDebt outstanding 2023: $51kDebt outstanding 2024: $38kDebt outstanding 2025: $25kDebt service 2019: $56kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $25kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $16kDebt service 2024: $15kDebt service 2025: $15k

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)$135,359$129,439$134,963$129,439$127,135$0$0$56,231$21,372afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$141,687$188,224$141,582$188,324$129,833$0$0$0$21,372afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$136,371$134,549$136,358$134,549$133,019$0$0$24,996$0afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$152,514$146,040$152,229$146,040$137,375$0$1,500$0$63,500afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$168,652$163,663$167,677$163,663$142,308$0$1,000$15,691$50,800afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$151,635$167,029$157,578$167,029$147,840$0$0$15,479$38,100afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$157,311$159,673$156,416$166,673$153,587$0$0$15,317$25,400afr-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$124,592$127,135$127,135$02%No
2020$127,135$129,833$129,833$02.1%No
2021$129,833$133,019$133,019$02.5%No
2022$133,019$137,375$137,375$03.3%No
2023$137,375$142,308$142,308$03.6%No
2024$147,840$153,587$153,587$03.9%No
2025$153,587$157,473$157,473$02.5%No
2026$157,473$162,775$162,775$03.4%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.

OSC audits (2)

Source: osc-audits ⓘ. Matched by entity name in the report title.

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/schenectady-county/fd-quaker-street-fire-district.json