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City manager outlines 2025 budget guidance, flags possible levy and insurance increases
Summary
Morris City Manager Becca presented preliminary 2025 budget guidance proposing a 3%–7% general fund levy increase, 10%–15% projected health-insurance cost growth, stormwater-fee review, lead-service-line surveying and planned capital allocations including $200,000 for capital outlay.
Becca, the city manager, presented preliminary guidance for the 2025 budget and told the council she recommended setting a final tax levy that reflects a 3%–7% increase in the general fund levy, along with required debt-service levies. She said the preliminary levy is often set higher because a final levy can be reduced but not increased after the preliminary is set.
On health insurance, Becca said the city is budgeting conservatively for a 10%–15% increase after prior plan years that produced large jumps; "we may budget…
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