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Village Board adopts tentative 2025–26 budget after tax-cap correction
Summary
After an internal tax-cap check identified a $3,475 error, the Village Board approved edits funded from contingency and adopted the tentative 2025–26 budget. The tentative levy will raise $400,440; board approved several personnel pay adjustments.
The Village Board adopted the tentative budget for the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2025 and ending May 31, 2026 after correcting a tax-cap calculation error and agreeing to make up a missed interfund transfer from contingency funds.
Clerk/Treasurer Nicole H. Heeder told the board she uses the State Comptroller’s Property Tax Cap Compliance tool and "found an error of $3,475.00" when she entered the tentative budget numbers; she requested the board edit the budget to remain within the tax cap. Trustee Susan Patterson identified a missed $7,000 revenue entry (Interfund transfer, code A5031) and the board agreed to cover the shortfall with the contingency account.
Heeder recorded that "the total amount to be raised by taxes in the proposed 2025/2026 budget is $400,440," and the record notes an indicated tax-rate increase of 1.15% and an additional stated percentage of 2.16% in the transcript's phrasing. After the adjustments, Trustee Patterson moved to adopt the tentative budget with the approved changes; Trustee Joseph Wildermuth seconded and the board voted to adopt the tentative budget.
The vote on adoption was recorded in the minutes as unanimous for the motion to adopt. The board closed the public hearing at 6:15 p.m. and completed the special meeting by 6:56 p.m. The tentative budget will remain subject to whatever subsequent hearings or final adoption procedures the Village follows under local and state law.
