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Finance Committee reviews 2026 operating budget; staff outline levy, tax-rate and service assumptions
Summary
City staff presented a kickoff review of Waukesha City’s 2026 operating budget, explaining levy-limit constraints, a garbage/recycling special charge and preliminary tax-rate estimates while department leaders summarized staffing and program priorities.
Waukesha City Administrator Tony Brown told the Finance Committee on Oct. 14 that the meeting’s primary purpose was a review of the city’s 2026 operating budget, with staff and department directors presenting assumptions and program priorities for police, fire, library, parks/recreation & forestry and internal service funds.
Brown said the session would focus on the operating (general) fund and that capital and debt-service levy elements are separate. He reviewed the budget schedule, the city’s financial management plan (FMP) assumptions and an early estimate of the tax-rate impact on a typical single-family household. Brown summarized one FMP initiative included in the 2026 forecast: a garbage and recycling special charge that…
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