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Monticello council approves Ordinance 2025-29, the annual appropriation setting 2025 spending limits
Summary
The Monticello City Council approved Ordinance 2025-29, the city’s annual appropriation ordinance, after a brief presentation and a public hearing with no speakers. The ordinance sets maximum spending authority for 2025 and lists major line items including street projects, parks, vehicles and pension funding.
The Monticello City Council approved Ordinance 2025-29, the city’s annual appropriation ordinance, at its March meeting, giving the city legal authority to spend for the 2025 fiscal year and setting maximum spending limits.
City staff opened a public hearing on the ordinance and reported there were no public comments. After a presentation of the ordinance’s major line items and a roll-call vote, the council approved the ordinance.
“The appropriation ordinance serves as the city’s legal authority for spending and sets the maximum spending limit for the year,” Terry, a city staff member who presented the ordinance, said during the meeting. Terry told the council the ordinance is “slightly inflated over the budget” and that the appropriation document includes roughly a 10% cushion above the adopted budget for both revenues and expenditures.
Terry outlined several specific items included in the appropriation: $12,000 added for windows at the Livingston Center (an estimate and labor not included, adding to an estimated $38,000 total for that project as presented); a new truck for the city fleet for $35,000; $500,000 for the police pension; $41,000 for laptops for squad cars; and $64,000 listed for squad car replacement. The ordinance also includes a $246,000 debt payment tied to a grant on Buchanan Street and a $1,150,000 road rehabilitation package covering Main Street (Independence to Marion/Paya), Independence Street (Marion to William), and one block of William Street toward Hamilton Street.
Terry said the ordinance also carries line items for the Saginaw River trail extension ($38,000 for tree removal, grading and rock), an $8,000,000 allocation for Override Park, $2,200,000 for Robert C. Burke Memorial Park, and $115,500 for fire station improvements; during the presentation Terry referenced a $6,060,500 grant that County officials and Chief Reppke had obtained. The ordinance also includes $100,000 for preliminary engineering on the Washington Street streetscape project.
A staff presentation noted the city has spent more than $9,000,000 on street infrastructure since 2016. Terry told the council the Livingston Center window estimate from a vendor called PUP Works was $26,000 before labor and that the $12,000 figure in the appropriation is an added line item to address that need if the council approves it.
No members of the public addressed the council during the public hearing. A roll-call vote was conducted; named council members who voted yes in the record were: Mr. Reid, Mr. Whittem, Mr. Carey, Miss Lively, Mr. Piercy, Mr. Brock, Mr. Broderick and Mr. Barras. The motion passed.
The ordinance was presented for adoption after the council’s required public notice was confirmed; staff said the public notice ran in the March 12 and March 19 editions of the Bi County Journal Republican as required by state statute. The council did not amend the ordinance on the floor and approved it as presented.
The council’s approval gives staff authority to move forward within the appropriation limits; the presentation emphasized that the appropriation establishes maximum spending levels and does not itself execute specific contracts or purchases, which will be brought forward as required by city policy or future agenda items.
