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Rotterdam No. 3 Fire District

Fire district · Schenectady County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 421172607400

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

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorRotterdam No. 3 Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending13.1%13.1%50th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-6.7%17.4%27th98AFR 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$255k$509k$764k$1.0M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $684kRevenue 2020: $831kRevenue 2021: $806kRevenue 2022: $472kRevenue 2023: $858kRevenue 2024: $903kRevenue 2025: $949kSpending 2019: $691kSpending 2020: $1.0MSpending 2021: $712kSpending 2022: $664kSpending 2023: $747kSpending 2024: $680kSpending 2025: $664k

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)
$-192k$-72k$47k$166k$285k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-7kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-187kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $94kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-192kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $111kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $223kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $285k

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$106k$213k$319k$425k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $0kDebt outstanding 2020: $425kDebt outstanding 2021: $340kDebt outstanding 2022: $255kDebt outstanding 2023: $170kDebt outstanding 2024: $85kDebt outstanding 2025: $0kDebt service 2019: $101kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $88kDebt service 2022: $93kDebt service 2023: $91kDebt service 2024: $89kDebt service 2025: $87k

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)$683,658$690,740$683,658$690,740$673,000$0$0$100,930$0afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$831,221$1,018,713$831,221$1,018,713$686,001$0$0$0$425,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$805,888$712,124$805,888$712,124$699,500$0$0$88,140$340,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$472,466$664,044$472,466$664,044$710,000$0$0$93,296$255,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$857,748$746,598$857,748$746,598$724,000$0$0$91,222$170,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$903,435$680,197$903,435$680,197$738,000$0$0$89,148$85,000afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$949,235$664,415$949,235$664,415$754,000$0$0$87,074$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$673,000$673,000$697,715$24,7150%No
2020$673,000$686,000$689,054$3,0541.9%No
2021$686,000$699,500$701,358$1,8582%No
2022$699,500$710,000$716,632$6,6321.5%No
2023$710,000$724,000$731,918$7,9182%No
2024$724,000$738,000$747,506$9,5061.9%No
2025$738,000$754,000$754,717$7172.2%No
2026$754,000$772,000$772,258$2582.4%No
2027$772,000$790,000$790,848$8482.3%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-3-fire-district.json