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Owego Fire District: budget and spending

Spending by category, 2025

Compared with 2024
Category20252024Change
Public safety$3.5M$1.7M▲ 110%
Staff and payroll$205K$180K▲ 14%
Insurance and benefits$177K$206K▼ 14%
Debt payments$101K$282K▼ 64%
Line by line

Public safety $3.5M

  • Fire Protection: equipment and capital outlay: $1.9M
  • Fire Protection: personal services: $1.1M
  • Fire Protection: contractual: $488K

Staff and payroll $205K

  • State Retirement System: employee benefits: $122K
  • Social Security: employee benefits: $83K

Insurance and benefits $177K

  • Hospital, Medical and Dental Insurance: employee benefits: $133K
  • Workers' Compensation: employee benefits: $41K
  • Disability Insurance: employee benefits: $2,521
  • Life Insurance: employee benefits: $1,532

Debt payments $101K

  • Installment Bonds: debt principal: $92K
  • Installment Bonds: debt interest: $8,310

From Owego 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.