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Rifton Fire District

Fire district · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 511127407500

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 $23,109, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorRifton Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending30.1%7.2%89th170AFR 2024 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue0%0%41st170AFR 2024 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years46.2%23.1%66th161AFR 2020–2024 (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$306k$612k$918k$1.2M201920202021202220232024Revenue 2019: $333kRevenue 2020: $337kRevenue 2021: $358kRevenue 2022: $360kRevenue 2023: $470kRevenue 2024: $443kSpending 2019: $232kSpending 2020: $245kSpending 2021: $245kSpending 2022: $271kSpending 2023: $1.2MSpending 2024: $358k

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)
$-1k$19k$40k$60k$81k201920202021202220232024General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $4kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $2kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $18kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-1kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $81kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $43k

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$196k$393k$589k$785k201920202021202220232024Debt outstanding 2019: $475kDebt outstanding 2020: $430kDebt outstanding 2021: $385kDebt outstanding 2022: $335kDebt outstanding 2023: $785kDebt outstanding 2024: $715kDebt service 2019: $67kDebt service 2020: $65kDebt service 2021: $63kDebt service 2022: $67kDebt service 2023: $65kDebt service 2024: $108k

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)$333,200$232,336$329,570$325,161$328,400$0$0$66,769$475,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$337,360$244,716$335,751$333,716$334,900$0$0$65,081$430,000afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$357,539$245,397$357,227$339,397$334,900$0$0$63,394$385,000afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$359,838$270,804$358,764$359,804$341,500$0$0$66,706$335,000afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$470,141$1,223,919$462,383$381,597$390,500$0$0$64,706$785,000afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$443,122$357,878$431,930$388,940$426,000$0$0$107,793$714,863afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
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). No AFR data in OSC bulk files for 2025 (left blank, not estimated).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$322,000$328,400$329,069$6692%No
2020$328,400$334,900$338,417$3,5172%No
2021$334,900$334,900$346,294$11,3940%No
2022$334,900$341,500$347,612$6,1122%No
2023$341,500$390,500$354,345$-36,15514.4%Yes
2024$390,500$426,000$402,891$-23,1099.1%Yes
2025$426,000$443,500$443,688$1884.1%No
2026$443,500$452,200$453,553$1,3532%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-rifton-fire-district.json