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Ulster No. 1 Fire District

Fire district · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 511184308600

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 $69,941, override planned), 2025 (by $5,212, override planned), 2026 (by $4,873, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorUlster No. 1 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 years-51.1%23.1%3rd161AFR 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$103k$205k$308k$411k2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $268kRevenue 2020: $294kRevenue 2021: $399kRevenue 2022: $311kRevenue 2023: $367kRevenue 2024: $402kRevenue 2025: $411kSpending 2019: $147kSpending 2020: $127kSpending 2021: $272kSpending 2022: $176kSpending 2023: $113kSpending 2024: $138kSpending 2025: $133k

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)
$-199k$-135k$-71k$-7k$58k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $31kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $58kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-199kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-25kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $14kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $1kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $1k

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)$267,679$146,936$265,772$234,756$258,795$0$0$0–afr-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$293,768$126,974$292,788$234,981$281,600$0$0$0–afr-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$398,640$272,395$397,941$597,425$287,085$0$0$0–afr-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$311,123$175,580$310,122$335,451$293,950$0$0$0–afr-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$367,436$112,548$316,660$302,548$314,220$0$0$0–afr-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$401,957$137,574$336,760$335,430$334,070$0$0$0–afr-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$410,759$133,166$348,634$347,535$347,020$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$252,035$258,785$258,166$-6192.7%Yes
2020$258,785$281,600$265,492$-16,1088.8%Yes
2021$281,600$287,085$287,566$4812%Yes
2022$287,085$293,950$294,479$5292.4%No
2023$293,950$293,450$301,557$8,107-0.2%Yes
2024$293,450$375,070$305,129$-69,94127.8%Yes
2025$334,070$347,020$341,808$-5,2123.9%Yes
2026$347,020$362,585$357,712$-4,8734.5%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-ulster-no-1-fire-district.json