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Sawkill Fire District

Fire district · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 511144008000

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 $24,260, override planned), 2025 (by $24,892, override planned), 2026 (by $16,371, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorSawkill 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 years12.3%23.1%39th161AFR 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$108k$217k$325k$434k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $159kRevenue 2020: $161kRevenue 2021: $173kRevenue 2022: $226kRevenue 2023: $207kRevenue 2024: $289kRevenue 2025: $303kSpending 2019: $133kSpending 2020: $105kSpending 2021: $174kSpending 2022: $434kSpending 2023: $160kSpending 2024: $140kSpending 2025: $195k

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)
$-31k$9k$48k$88k$128k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $-2kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $24kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-31kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $32kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $24kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $128kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $54k

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)$159,459$132,737$155,915$157,737$153,750$0$1,500$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$160,553$105,137$158,675$135,137$156,825$0$1,500$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$173,344$174,089$173,027$204,089$159,925$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$225,846$433,775$225,602$193,836$163,125$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$206,973$160,368$214,644$190,368$172,825$0$1,500$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$288,823$140,270$309,814$182,270$203,750$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$303,497$195,458$299,209$245,458$237,850$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$150,750$153,750$153,996$2462%No
2020$153,750$156,825$157,934$1,1092%No
2021$156,825$159,925$164,123$4,1982%No
2022$159,925$163,125$165,586$2,4612%No
2023$163,125$172,825$169,165$-3,6606%Yes
2024$172,825$203,750$179,490$-24,26017.9%Yes
2025$203,750$237,850$212,958$-24,89216.7%Yes
2026$237,850$261,550$245,179$-16,37110%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-sawkill-fire-district.json