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Sharon Springs Joint Fire District

Fire district · Schoharie County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 431176908000

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

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Compared with Capital Region fire districts

IndicatorThis entityPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%13.1%16th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%48th103AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years315.9%17.4%98th98AFR 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$87k$175k$262k$349k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $204kRevenue 2020: $196kRevenue 2021: $196kRevenue 2022: $198kRevenue 2023: $199kRevenue 2024: $204kRevenue 2025: $219kSpending 2019: $72kSpending 2020: $144kSpending 2021: $84kSpending 2022: $88kSpending 2023: $168kSpending 2024: $85kSpending 2025: $349k

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)
$-46k$-21k$4k$30k$55k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $34kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-14kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-7kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-3kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-46kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $55kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $13k

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

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)$204,115$71,875$204,006$169,511$157,036$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$195,873$144,075$195,745$209,314$157,148$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$196,132$83,952$195,986$202,515$157,148$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$197,676$88,336$197,509$200,370$157,378$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$199,456$167,964$230,739$277,137$157,497$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$203,817$85,479$203,621$148,254$160,629$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$219,353$349,170$206,762$194,104$163,842$0$0$0–afr-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$151,440$151,440$156,840$5,4000%No
2020$151,440$151,440$157,996$6,5560%No
2021$151,440$151,440$158,501$7,0610%No
2022$151,440$151,440$157,558$6,1180%No
2023$151,440$151,440$157,697$6,2570%No
2024$151,440$154,451$158,564$4,1132%No
2025$154,451$157,540$160,628$3,0882%No
2026$157,540$160,691$186,545$25,8542%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/schoharie-county/fd-sharon-springs-joint-fire-district.json