Finance Committee approves budget carryovers, special charges, contracts and amendments; several appeals denied or deferred

The Kenosha Finance Committee met on May 19, 2025, and approved a series of routine and substantive items affecting city budgets, contracts and property charges.

Key actions taken included:

- Approval of an ordinance repealing and recreating an element of a self-care grant (Item 1). The committee moved to approve the ordinance during the public hearing and the motion carried.

- Approval of a resolution to encumber 2024 budgeted monies and carry them into the 2025 budget (Item 2). Finance staff reported carryovers, primarily for equipment not yet received (notably police vehicles and public works trucks), totaling approximately $1,600,000 to be carried forward for audit purposes. The resolution passed (motion carried 6-0).

- Approval of resolutions to levy special charges for various property-related enforcement actions (Item 3) and separate special charges for bulk trash removal from specific months (Items 4 and 5). The special-charge items passed after public hearings and roll-call votes.

- Authorization for 2025 special events via resolution (Item 6); the item passed (6-0).

- Award of a professional engineering services contract to Batterman for the Project 24-1045 Eighth Avenue Reconstruction (Item 7). Committee members were told the work will come from the resurfacing CIP fund and that the city is hiring consultants for more complex projects due to staff capacity; the contract was approved (6-0).

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