Village of Eden adopts $545,958.55 budget for 2026, cites higher levy for debt retirement

The Village of Eden Board adopted its 2026 budget on Nov. 18, 2025, approving a $545,958.55 spending plan that includes operating line items and debt-service payments, according to the adopted document.

The budget lists major expenditures including General Government at $125,000; Protection of Persons & Property at $67,000; Health & Sanitation at $58,800; Recycling at $35,000; Streets & Bridges at $60,000; Education & Recreation at $20,000; Community Center & Firehouse at $6,600; and specified debt payments including $91,936.54 for sanitary sewer main debt and $43,386.01 for the Street Loan 2019. A Fire Truck is budgeted at $36,210. The document records a total budget of $545,958.55.

Anticipated revenues are listed at $140,000 overall, with line-item revenue for Recycling at $1,982, revenue from the tax roll at $210,377.55, shared revenue at $160,811.33, and temporary borrowing at $32,787.67. Those revenue lines match the $545,958.55 total in the adopted budget.

The document sets a proposed village tax levy of $38,845 and separately lists an additional tax levy for loans of $171,532.55; the budget text states this represents an "INCREASE IN TAX LEVY DUE TO DEBT RETIREMENT." The increase and the loan-related levy appear in the budget document itself; the transcript does not record vote tallies or further discussion of alternative levy amounts.

A motion "to approve the budget as explained" was made by Henry Guell and seconded by Shea Stahl. The record shows the document as adopted; the transcript does not supply a roll-call vote or vote tally. Kari Schlefke is recorded on the document as Clerk/Treasurer.

The adopted budget and the tax-levy figures are presented in the official record dated Nov. 18, 2025. The document lists the funding sources and line-item allocations but does not include additional narrative or a recorded vote count in the provided transcript.