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Brookfield trustees weigh tax‑rate referendum to fund 20–25‑year road program and $25M community center
Summary
Trustees reviewed a staff plan to use a limiting‑rate referendum to permanently fund a 20–25‑year street program (aiming to preserve current street‑portion tax levels) and discussed a separate bond referendum to finance a community center (estimated $25M–$27M), with staff recommending sequencing, consultant outreach and outreach to residents.
Village of Brookfield trustees spent the bulk of the Committee of the Whole meeting on Oct. 13 evaluating how to pay for two large capital priorities: a multi‑decade road program and a proposed community center.
Doug, the village finance lead, told trustees the preferred path for the roads is a limiting‑rate (PTEL) referendum that would increase the village’s capped property‑tax rate so that funds currently used to pay maturing bonds would instead be dedicated to ongoing street maintenance. “The reason we would look at a referendum…was we do not have the available funds, of course, to finance either or one of these projects,” Doug said, adding the village model envisions a 20‑year program that would require roughly $4.0 million annually or a 25‑year model that would cut roughly $500,000 per year.
Derek, the village’s…
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