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Milford board opens 2025 budget workshop; flags steep increases for fire, utilities and retirement
Summary
The Milford Town Board began its 2025 budget workshop on Sept. 25, 2024, reviewing line items and noting substantial increases for the Fire District, electric bill, insurance, the SPCA contract and State Retirement; tentative figures were recorded and hearings were set for Oct. 9.
The Milford Town Board met in a special session Sept. 25, 2024, to begin its 2025 budget workshop. Town Supervisor Casey Eckler called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM at Town Hall in Portlandville and the board proceeded to a line-by-line review of the draft budget with consultant Karen Kropp.
Board members and Kropp entered tentative figures for the coming year and flagged a set of line items with notable upward pressure. The minutes state that "substantial increases were noted for the Fire District, electric bill, insurance, SPCA and State Retirement." Those items were highlighted as being significant drivers of the preliminary budget changes; no dollar totals or program-level adjustments were recorded in the minutes.
The board did not adopt a final budget at the session; instead, members scheduled public hearings and a follow-up special meeting for Oct. 9, 2024 to present the Preliminary Budget and consider any revisions. The meeting record lists no resident attendees; the minutes show the board completing its review and adjourning at 8:45 PM.
The board's next steps are the scheduled public hearings and any subsequent revisions before formal budget adoption. The clerk's minutes do not list specific department-by-department dollar amounts in the record of this workshop.
