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Rotterdam No. 4 Fire District

Fire district · Schenectady County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 421172607500

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

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorRotterdam No. 4 Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending19.6%13.1%67th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-17.1%17.4%15th98AFR 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$48k$96k$144k$192k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $84kRevenue 2020: $88kRevenue 2021: $97kRevenue 2022: $91kRevenue 2023: $94kRevenue 2024: $97kRevenue 2025: $98kSpending 2019: $113kSpending 2020: $71kSpending 2021: $74kSpending 2022: $74kSpending 2023: $66kSpending 2024: $192kSpending 2025: $61k

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)
$-16k$-10k$-3k$3k$10k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-16kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $0kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $10kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $1kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $4kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $-3k

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$17k$33k$50k$66k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $66kDebt outstanding 2020: $56kDebt outstanding 2021: $45kDebt outstanding 2022: $34kDebt outstanding 2023: $23kDebt outstanding 2024: $12kDebt outstanding 2025: $0kDebt service 2019: $12kDebt service 2020: $12kDebt service 2021: $12kDebt service 2022: $12kDebt service 2023: $12kDebt service 2024: $12kDebt service 2025: $12k

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)$84,488$113,172$84,386$100,663$42,193$0$0$12,028$66,244afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$88,451$71,419$86,074$86,419$43,037$0$0$12,028$55,872afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$96,869$73,861$87,796$77,901$43,898$0$0$12,028$45,241afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$90,986$73,652$90,972$89,798$45,487$0$0$12,028$34,345afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$93,502$65,708$93,104$88,708$46,552$0$0$12,028$23,174afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$96,692$192,383$95,384$104,083$47,692$0$0$12,028$11,726afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$97,719$61,216$97,340$100,216$48,670$0$0$12,019$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$41,366$42,193$42,971$7782%No
2020$42,193$43,037$44,934$1,8972%No
2021$43,037$43,898$44,872$9742%No
2022$43,898$45,485$45,485$03.6%No
2023$45,485$46,552$46,552$02.4%No
2024$46,552$47,692$47,692$02.5%No
2025$47,692$48,670$48,670$02.1%No
2026$48,670$49,663$49,663$02%No
2027$49,663$50,656$50,656$02%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-4-fire-district.json