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Liberty Joint Fire District

Fire district · Sullivan County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 481146707000

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

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Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2026 (by $75,724, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorLiberty Joint Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%7.2%21st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%41st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years47%23.1%68th161AFR 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$270k$539k$809k$1.1M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $687kRevenue 2020: $680kRevenue 2021: $702kRevenue 2022: $672kRevenue 2023: $744kRevenue 2024: $774kRevenue 2025: $760kSpending 2019: $657kSpending 2020: $1.1MSpending 2021: $310kSpending 2022: $436kSpending 2023: $469kSpending 2024: $486kSpending 2025: $455k

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)
$-398k$-201k$-3k$194k$392k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $30kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-398kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $392kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $236kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $275kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $287kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $305k

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$32k$63k$95k$127k2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $0kDebt service 2019: $127kDebt service 2020: $0kDebt service 2021: $0kDebt service 2022: $0kDebt service 2023: $0kDebt service 2024: $0kDebt service 2025: $0k

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)$686,924$656,619$686,924$656,619$668,716$0$0$126,840$0afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$680,287$1,078,660$680,287$1,078,660$668,789$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$701,591$309,734$701,591$309,734$666,639$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$671,661$435,604$671,661$435,604$650,059$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$744,300$469,460$744,300$469,460$676,955$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$773,628$486,373$773,628$486,373$688,352$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$760,354$455,449$760,354$455,449$694,733$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$668,128$672,716$691,851$19,1350.7%No
2020$672,501$668,789$698,593$29,804-0.5%No
2021$668,789$666,639$691,671$25,032-0.3%No
2022$674,647$650,059$698,515$48,456-3.6%No
2023$650,059$676,955$688,258$11,3034.1%No
2024$676,955$688,352$706,480$18,1281.7%No
2025$689,396$694,233$717,648$23,4150.7%No
2026$694,144$798,976$723,252$-75,72415.1%Yes

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/sullivan-county/fd-liberty-joint-fire-district.json