Tecumseh council adopts 2025-26 budget ordinance and sets new property tax request

The Tecumseh City Council on Sept. 2 approved the city’s 2025-26 budget ordinance and a separate resolution setting the 2025-26 property tax request.

Councilmember Tyler Speckmann introduced an ordinance to adopt the annual appropriation (the city’s budget statement) and asked the Council to waive the statutory rule requiring the ordinance be read on three separate days; Councilmember Lance Beethe seconded the motion. Later in the meeting, Councilmember Travis Goracke moved final passage of the ordinance and Beethe seconded. The motions carried with votes recorded as Aye: Beethe, Britt, Goracke, Speckmann and Topp; Absent: Brommer.

The ordinance was approved for final passage and ordered published in pamphlet form. The Council also approved an accompanying resolution to set the city’s 2025-26 property tax request at a different amount than the prior year; the minutes do not state the dollar amount.

In related budget action, the Council approved increasing the Restricted Funds Base in the 2025-2026 budget by 1% over the allowable growth percentage. Councilmember Tyler Speckmann moved to approve that change; Councilmember Travis Goracke seconded. The vote was unanimous among members present.

Taken together, the votes complete the Council’s statutory steps to adopt the city’s annual budget for 2025-26. The minutes do not specify the ordinance number, the effective date or the exact property tax request dollar amount; those details are recorded as not specified in the meeting minutes and will be available in the published ordinance pamphlet or the city’s official budget documents.