Quincy Township committee places tentative 2025–26 budget on file, proposes 4.5% levy increase

Quincy Township’s committee placed its tentative budget for fiscal year 2025–26 on file and set a final public hearing and adoption date at the township’s regular meeting on April 14, 2025, the committee voted during the Jan. 24 session.

Supervisor Maggie Hoyt presented the tentative budget and financial figures for January 2025: a general assistance (GA) checking balance of $5,458.57, a GA money-market balance of $139,579.85, a property‑tax transfer of $176.94, and interest income of $98.23. Hoyt said obligations paid during the month amounted to $8,500 and reported a GA fund balance as of Jan. 31, 2025 (figure read from the record).

The budget proposal includes a requested levy increase of 4.5%, raising the township levy from $290,000 to $303,050 for taxes payable in 2026. The proposed budget incorporates raises for elected officials approved earlier and the supervisor’s bond expense (a once‑every‑four‑year cost). Hoyt also told the committee the township will combine its representative‑payee program with the general assistance program, consolidating operations and running both under a single account; any net revenue from the representative‑payee activity will subsidize general assistance services.

Committee members were given spreadsheets showing year‑to‑year comparisons and trends. Hoyt explained highlighted figures in the handouts: yellow indicates increases from the previous year, orange indicates decreases.

A motion to place the tentative budget with the town clerk for public inspection and to set the final public hearing and passage for April 14, 2025, carried on roll call (13 ayes, 1 absent).