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Rotterdam No. 1 Fire District

Fire district · Schenectady County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 421172607200

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

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorRotterdam No. 1 Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending10.8%13.1%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-6.5%17.4%28th98AFR 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$55k$109k$164k$219k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $180kRevenue 2020: $185kRevenue 2021: $184kRevenue 2022: $207kRevenue 2023: $211kRevenue 2024: $198kRevenue 2025: $219kSpending 2019: $149kSpending 2020: $131kSpending 2021: $180kSpending 2022: $158kSpending 2023: $200kSpending 2024: $183kSpending 2025: $168k

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)
$0k$1k$2k$3k$4k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $1kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $4kGeneral 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$40k$80k$119k$159k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $159kDebt outstanding 2020: $145kDebt outstanding 2021: $130kDebt outstanding 2022: $115kDebt outstanding 2023: $100kDebt outstanding 2024: $84kDebt outstanding 2025: $68kDebt service 2019: $18kDebt service 2020: $18kDebt service 2021: $18kDebt service 2022: $18kDebt service 2023: $18kDebt service 2024: $18kDebt service 2025: $18k

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)$179,889$149,022$179,889$179,889$177,025$0$0$18,172$159,047afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$184,758$130,737$184,758$184,758$180,280$0$0$18,172$144,850afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$183,819$179,538$183,819$182,640$182,417$0$0$18,172$130,299afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$206,545$157,927$206,545$206,545$185,511$0$0$18,172$115,384afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$210,962$200,031$210,962$210,499$188,502$0$0$18,172$100,096afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$198,011$182,527$196,747$192,770$191,500$0$0$18,172$84,426afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$218,868$167,931$206,144$206,144$200,000$0$0$18,172$68,364afr-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$175,600$177,625$181,794$4,1691.2%No
2020$177,625$180,880$185,608$4,7281.8%No
2021$180,880$183,017$187,221$4,2041.2%No
2022$183,017$185,500$189,485$3,9851.4%No
2023$185,500$188,500$193,414$4,9141.6%No
2024$188,500$191,500$195,748$4,2481.6%No
2025$191,500$200,000$201,059$1,0594.4%No
2026$200,000$205,000$205,202$2022.5%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/schenectady-county/fd-rotterdam-no-1-fire-district.json