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Tecumseh council adopts 2025–26 appropriation ordinance, approves property tax resolution
Summary
The Tecumseh City Council introduced and gave final passage to the 2025–26 annual appropriation ordinance (budget), waived the three-day reading rule, approved increasing the restricted funds base by 1% and adopted a resolution setting a new property tax request. Votes on each measure were unanimous among members present.
At its Sept. 2 meeting the Tecumseh City Council moved to adopt the city's 2025–26 budget and to take related tax and fund actions.
Councilmember Tyler Speckmann introduced an ordinance to adopt the annual appropriation (the city's budget). The council voted to waive the statutory rule requiring the ordinance be read on three different days, and later approved final passage and publication of the ordinance in pamphlet form; the motions carried on unanimous recorded votes of the members present (5'0).
Separately, the council voted to increase the Restricted Funds Base in the 2025–2026 budget by 1% over the allowable growth percentage. That motion was made by Tyler Speckmann and seconded by Travis Goracke.
The council also approved a resolution setting the 2025–2026 property tax request at a different amount than the prior year; the minutes record the resolution's approval but do not state the exact property tax figure in the meeting minutes.
All budget-related votes recorded in the minutes were unanimous among those present; Alicia Brommer was listed as absent. The minutes do not include the ordinance text or the numeric property tax request; those documents are referenced as adopted or approved for publication.
