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Ulster No. 5 Fire District

Fire district · Ulster County · Mid-Hudson · OSC municipal code 511184308700

Fire districts have no Census population; per-capita figures are not calculated.

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Compared with Mid-Hudson fire districts

IndicatorUlster No. 5 Fire DistrictPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Debt service % of operating spending27.9%7.2%86th170AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue3.4%0%93rd170AFR 2025 (our calc)
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years-12%23.1%19th161AFR 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$619k$1.2M$1.9M$2.5M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $1.6MRevenue 2020: $1.8MRevenue 2021: $1.8MRevenue 2022: $1.7MRevenue 2023: $2.3MRevenue 2024: $1.9MRevenue 2025: $2.1MSpending 2019: $1.3MSpending 2020: $1.5MSpending 2021: $1.7MSpending 2022: $2.5MSpending 2023: $1.6MSpending 2024: $1.3MSpending 2025: $1.5M

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)
$-738k$-389k$-39k$311k$661k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $288kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $250kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $63kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-738kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $661kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $574kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $553k

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$1.3M$2.7M$4.0M$5.4M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $5.4MDebt outstanding 2020: $5.1MDebt outstanding 2021: $4.8MDebt outstanding 2022: $4.6MDebt outstanding 2023: $4.3MDebt outstanding 2024: $4.0MDebt outstanding 2025: $3.7MDebt service 2019: $290kDebt service 2020: $428kDebt service 2021: $428kDebt service 2022: $428kDebt service 2023: $428kDebt service 2024: $428kDebt service 2025: $428k

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)$1,566,617$1,278,898$1,566,617$1,278,898$1,537,603$0$0$289,945$5,399,000afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$1,772,934$1,523,128$1,772,934$1,523,128$1,574,561$0$0$427,703$5,127,830afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$1,805,581$1,742,100$1,805,581$1,742,100$1,574,561$0$0$427,977$4,849,918afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$1,736,326$2,474,729$1,736,326$2,474,729$1,636,361$0$0$428,103$4,564,883afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$2,253,272$1,599,137$2,260,060$1,599,137$1,679,179$0$0$428,079$4,272,326afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$1,914,590$1,340,201$1,914,590$1,340,201$1,719,303$0$0$427,903$3,971,829afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$2,085,702$1,532,825$2,363,202$1,810,325$1,764,399$0$70,000$427,577$3,662,881afr-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$1,499,244$1,537,603$1,581,799$44,1962.6%No
2020$1,537,603$1,574,561$1,616,078$41,5172.4%No
2021$1,574,561$1,574,561$1,635,678$61,1170%No
2022$1,574,561$1,636,361$1,643,275$6,9143.9%No
2023$1,636,361$1,679,179$1,688,187$9,0082.6%No
2024$1,679,179$1,719,303$1,721,771$2,4682.4%No
2025$1,719,303$1,764,399$1,764,399$02.6%Yes
2026$1,764,399$1,799,502$1,800,587$1,0852%No
2027$1,799,502$1,871,745$1,872,002$2574%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-ulster-no-5-fire-district.json