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Rotterdam No. 6 Fire District

Fire district · Schenectady County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 421172607600

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 2023, 2024, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2023, 2024 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2024 ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorRotterdam No. 6 Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending9.2%13.1%40th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years5.3%17.4%32nd98AFR 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$352k$703k$1.1M$1.4M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $796kRevenue 2020: $744kRevenue 2021: $874kRevenue 2022: $907kRevenue 2023: $825kRevenue 2024: $799kRevenue 2025: $855kSpending 2019: $616kSpending 2020: $725kSpending 2021: $717kSpending 2022: $1.4MSpending 2023: $828kSpending 2024: $841kSpending 2025: $755k

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)
$-499k$-330k$-160k$10k$180k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $180kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $19kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $157kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-499kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-3kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-42kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $100k

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$192k$384k$575k$767k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2022: $767kDebt outstanding 2023: $725kDebt outstanding 2024: $682kDebt outstanding 2025: $638kDebt service 2019: $0kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $13kDebt service 2023: $69kDebt service 2024: $69kDebt service 2025: $69k

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)$795,864$616,121$795,864$616,121$725,000$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$744,148$725,322$744,148$725,322$720,100$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$873,825$717,028$873,825$717,028$719,404$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$907,149$1,406,635$907,149$1,406,635$719,100$0$0$12,994$767,009afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$824,832$828,044$824,832$828,044$741,362$0$0$68,772$724,960afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$798,864$840,550$798,864$840,550$748,556$0$0$69,053$681,960afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$855,062$755,171$855,062$755,171$790,150$0$0$69,258$637,960afr-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$725,000$725,000$753,818$28,8180%No
2020$725,000$720,100$755,614$35,514-0.7%No
2021$720,100$719,400$753,199$33,799-0.1%No
2022$719,400$719,100$767,173$48,073-0%No
2023$719,100$741,359$748,584$7,2253.1%No
2024$741,359$748,556$777,401$28,8451%No
2025$748,556$790,150$797,483$7,3335.6%No
2026$790,150$816,685$817,074$3893.4%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.

No OSC audits matched by name for this entity (osc-audits ⓘ).

Profile data as JSON: /api/entity/schenectady-county/fd-rotterdam-no-6-fire-district.json