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Cottekill Fire District

Fire district · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 511150902500

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 $7,124, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorCottekill Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending0%7.2%21st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue1.9%0%91st170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-31.5%23.1%8th161AFR 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$106k$211k$317k$422k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $140kRevenue 2020: $142kRevenue 2021: $220kRevenue 2022: $147kRevenue 2023: $146kRevenue 2024: $163kRevenue 2025: $172kSpending 2019: $76kSpending 2020: $422kSpending 2021: $123kSpending 2022: $97kSpending 2023: $134kSpending 2024: $86kSpending 2025: $84k

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)
$-280k$-186k$-91k$3k$97k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $63kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-280kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $97kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $50kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $12kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $77kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $88k

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)$139,649$76,388$139,649$76,388$129,859$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$142,393$422,261$142,393$422,261$132,517$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$219,559$122,511$219,559$122,511$135,378$0$2,432$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$146,511$96,950$146,511$96,950$139,894$0$2,663$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$145,700$133,664$145,700$133,664$143,277$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$163,258$86,064$163,258$86,064$146,143$0$2,984$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$171,797$83,935$171,797$83,935$152,701$0$3,208$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$127,079$129,859$129,867$82.2%Yes
2020$129,859$132,517$132,517$02.1%No
2021$132,517$135,378$135,378$02.2%No
2022$135,378$139,894$139,894$03.3%No
2023$139,894$143,277$143,277$02.4%No
2024$143,277$146,800$146,800$02.5%No
2025$146,800$152,701$152,701$04%No
2026$152,701$164,000$156,876$-7,1247.4%Yes
2027$164,000$167,815$167,815$02.3%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/ulster-county/fd-cottekill-fire-district.json