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Berkshire Fire District: budget and spending

Spending by category, 2025

Compared with 2024
Category20252024Change
Debt payments$99K$100K▼ 1%
Public safety$82K$86K▼ 5%
Staff and payroll$383$383±0%
Line by line

Debt payments $99K

  • Serial Bonds: debt principal: $61K
  • Serial Bonds: debt interest: $22K
  • State or Authority Loans: debt principal: $12K
  • State or Authority Loans: debt interest: $4,471

Public safety $82K

  • Fire Protection: contractual: $58K
  • Fire Protection: equipment and capital outlay: $20K
  • Fire Protection: personal services: $4,743

Staff and payroll $383

  • Social Security: employee benefits: $383

From Berkshire 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.