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Milton Fire District

Fire district · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 511151405900

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 2024 (by $53,869, override planned), 2025 (by $12,966, override planned), 2026 (by $23,891, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorMilton Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending28.1%7.2%87th170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0.4%0%84th170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years66.3%23.1%77th161AFR 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$231k$463k$694k$926k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $608kRevenue 2020: $669kRevenue 2021: $689kRevenue 2022: $716kRevenue 2023: $778kRevenue 2024: $923kRevenue 2025: $926kSpending 2019: $526kSpending 2020: $455kSpending 2021: $420kSpending 2022: $511kSpending 2023: $548kSpending 2024: $637kSpending 2025: $699k

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)
$-120k$-18k$83k$185k$287k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $82kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $214kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $269kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $205kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-120kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $287kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $227k

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$332k$665k$997k$1.3M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $1.3MDebt outstanding 2020: $1.2MDebt outstanding 2021: $1.0MDebt outstanding 2022: $933kDebt outstanding 2023: $1.3MDebt outstanding 2024: $1.2MDebt outstanding 2025: $1.0MDebt service 2019: $152kDebt service 2020: $149kDebt service 2021: $146kDebt service 2022: $132kDebt service 2023: $129kDebt service 2024: $200kDebt service 2025: $196k

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)$607,624$525,531$607,624$525,531$583,000$0$0$152,073$1,268,764afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$668,769$455,137$668,769$455,137$639,400$0$0$149,222$1,155,185afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$688,979$420,135$688,979$420,135$646,800$0$1,480$146,371$1,036,660afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$716,213$511,321$716,213$511,321$677,100$0$1,492$132,174$932,994afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$777,748$547,760$777,748$897,673$692,300$0$0$129,323$1,329,334afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$923,463$636,824$923,463$636,824$776,800$0$61,288$200,292$1,175,668afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$925,706$698,840$925,706$698,840$838,025$0$3,712$196,122$1,022,002afr-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$570,500$583,000$584,121$1,1212.2%No
2020$583,000$639,400$600,895$-38,5059.7%Yes
2021$639,400$646,800$657,362$10,5621.2%No
2022$646,800$677,100$676,127$-9734.7%Yes
2023$677,100$692,300$696,374$4,0742.2%No
2024$692,300$776,800$722,931$-53,86912.2%Yes
2025$776,800$838,025$825,059$-12,9667.9%Yes
2026$838,025$890,900$867,009$-23,8916.3%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/ulster-county/fd-milton-fire-district.json