Public Hearing on 2025 Budget — Agenda

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING on 2025 BUDGET and BUDGET SUMMARY FOR THE TOWN OF NEW HOPE, PORTAGE COUNTY, WI Notice is hereby given that on Friday, the 8th day of November, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. at the North New Hope Church, 845 County Road T North, Amherst Junction, a PUBLIC HEARING on the 2025 PROPOSED BUDGET for the Town of New Hope will be held. The proposed budget in detail is available for inspection at the clerk’s office, posted on the Town Website (tn.newhope.wi.gov), and on message centers at Sunset Lake and North New Hope Church. Agenda: 1. Call to order, followed by Pledge of Allegiance. 2. Discussion and review of proposed 2025 Budget. 3. Adjournment. NOTICE OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING OF ELECTORS FOR THE TOWN OF NEW HOPE Notice is hereby given that on Friday, the 8th day of November, 2024, immediately following the completion of the Public Hearing on the proposed 2025 town budget, which begins at 6:00 pm at the North New Hope Church, a SPECIAL TOWN MEETING OF THE ELECTORS of the Town of New Hope will be held for the following purposes: Agenda: 1. To consider the adoption of Resolution 2024-04 by the town electors to endorse a town board resolution which proposes that the town levy exceed the state allowable levy limit u nder Wis. Stat. § 66.0602, specifically a proposed tax levy which would exceed the allowable town tax levy for 2024, after adjustments, by 36.931%, for a dollar increase of $46,044. 2. To consider the adoption of Resolution 2024-05 by the Town Electors to adopt the total town tax levy at the special town meeting of town electors in the amount of $170,721, for a dollar increase of $46,044 over the allowable 2024 tow tax levy. 3. To approve the 2024 total town tax levy (to be collected in 2025), pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 60.10(1)(a) in the amount of $170,721, for a dollar increase of $46,044 over the allowable 2024 town tax levy. 4. To approve authorization to proceed with the sale of the Town Hall building and contents, located at 9785 Town Hall Road, with an option to exchange the building, contents, and land for an equivalent or additional land acreage adjacent to the current property. 5. Adjournment. NOTICE OF TOWN BOARD MEETING FOR THE TOWN OF NEW HOPE Notice is further given that immediately following the Special Town Meeting of Electors, the Town Board of the Town of New Hope will meet to adopt the 2025 Budget. Agenda: 1. Discuss 2025 Proposed Budget and amend as needed. 2. Approve 2025 Budget. 3. Adjournment. Dated this 24th day of October, 2024. Pat Zellmer, Town Clerk of the Town of New Hope.