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Caton No. 1 Fire District: budget and spending

Spending by category, 2025

Compared with 2024
Category20252024Change
Public safety$100K$142K▼ 29%
Debt payments$59K$59K▼ 1%
Staff and payroll$927$676▲ 37%
Line by line

Public safety $100K

  • Fire Protection: contractual: $62K
  • Fire Protection: equipment and capital outlay: $28K
  • Fire Protection: personal services: $10K

Debt payments $59K

  • Serial Bonds: debt interest: $27K
  • Serial Bonds: debt principal: $15K
  • State or Authority Loans: debt principal: $9,458
  • State or Authority Loans: debt interest: $6,825

Staff and payroll $927

  • Social Security: employee benefits: $927

From Caton No. 1 Fire District’s annual financial report to the Office of the New York State Comptroller (2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31), all funds. Categories group the state’s account codes: technology is data processing, phones, 911 and radio and computer instruction; transfers between the body’s own funds are left out. The Comptroller’s data ↗

Figures are public records: the body’s own reports (marked by year) and other agencies’ records of what it bought or received. They aren’t added together. Something wrong? Tell us.