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Grosse Ile presents 2025–26 budget with higher police costs, modest tax change
Summary
Township staff opened a public hearing on the proposed 2025–26 budget that rolls forward 2024 millages, adds a wastewater plant levy and a first-year toll-bridge levy, and highlights growing pension and police staffing costs that will require closer review.
The Grosse Ile Township Board on the evening of its public hearing heard a detailed presentation of the townshipproposed 202526 2026 budget, which assumes a 3.1% rise in taxable value and carries an estimated total levy of about 14.45 mills for 2025.
The presentation, delivered by Theresa McLaughlin, summarized assumptions and key changes: an estimated taxable value rising from about $776.5 million to $800 million; a roll-forward of 2024 millages while the county determines any millage reduction factor; removal of a long-standing 3-mill SSES debt levy; no new millage for a judgment bond because collections held sufficient reserves; a 0.95-mill wastewater-treatment-plant levy; and a 1.6745-mill levy tied to the toll-bridge purchase. McLaughlin said staff used a $800 million taxable-value assumption so they could finalize numbers before the countyreleased its millage reduction factor in May.
Township staff emphasized that the general fund remains balanced on paper but flagged rising personnel and retirement costs. McLaughlin said the police department budget is projected to…
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