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2024-08-26
Agenda
Not posted
What was on the agenda.
One-line summary
The Council held its third 2025 budget work session, discussed additional budget reductions and action items, and adjourned without adopting the preliminary levy.
3 items as recorded in the packet and minutes.
1Call to Order / Roll Call / Approve Agenda
Call to order, roll call, and approval of the work session agenda.
The agenda was approved as presented by motion with 5 ayes recorded.
23rd 2025 Budget Discussion
Third 2025 budget discussion; City Council was asked to bring previous budget books and review and amend the proposed 2025 budget.
The Council discussed additional possible budget reductions and action items, but the minutes do not record adoption of the 2025 preliminary budget at this work session.
3Adjourn
Adjourn the work session.
A motion to adjourn was made and seconded, and the meeting was adjourned at 9:03 p.m.
What this meeting did about specific topics, organized by issue rather than by document.
Meeting administration
The work session was called to order, roll was taken, the agenda was approved as presented, and the meeting later adjourned at 9:03 p.m. The minutes contain an attendance inconsistency because Alders is not listed in the roll call but is recorded as making the adjournment motion.
Agenda: 1, 3. Motions: M-1, M-2. Speakers: Mayor Pilon, Fladebo, Council Member Alders, Rainville.
2025 preliminary budget work session
The Council continued its third work session on the 2025 preliminary budget, using Finance Consultant Lori Yager's memo from the prior budget discussion and looking for more reductions. Discussion covered licensing fee revenue, department reductions, staffing and compensation, dust control, legal and traffic-count questions, park signs and supplies, remaining 2024 expense estimates, and other funds still needing review. The minutes note that, if the discussed changes are made, the approximate levy would be 9.6%, but no preliminary levy was adopted at this meeting.
Agenda: 2. Speakers: Finance Consultant Lori Yager, Administrator Lehner, Council Member Rainville.
2 motions on the record. Split votes are highlighted.
M-1MOTION BY MAYOR PILON, 2ND BY FLADEBO TO APPROVE THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED 5 AYES. MOTION CARRIED.
moved by Mayor Pilon, seconded by Fladebo
5 AYES
M-2MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER ALDERS, SECONDED BY RAINVILLE TO ADJOURN.
moved by Council Member Alders, seconded by Rainville
Each figure links back to the document it came from. When the council voted on the amount, the motion is shown.
F-1
Increase revenue from alcoholic license fees by $1,800 in the proposed 2025 budget changes.
fee · Alcoholic license fees · FY 2025
$1,800
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-2
Reduce miscellaneous and dues in the Council budget by $650.
expenditure · Council miscellaneous and dues · FY 2025
$650
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-3
Reduce Administration marketing by $1,000.
expenditure · Administration marketing · FY 2025
$1,000
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-4
Reduce prosecuting attorney budget by $5,000.
expenditure · Prosecuting attorney · FY 2025
$5,000
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-5
Move the proposed $30,000 building study to the park capital fund.
capital_project · Building study · FY 2025
$30,000
transfer
Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-6
Reduce property and workers compensation insurance by $3,000.
expenditure · Property and workers comp insurance · FY 2025
$3,000
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-7
Reduce Building Inspection services by $5,000.
expenditure · Building Inspection services · FY 2025
$5,000
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-8
Current total levy increase after the listed budget changes.
levy · Total levy increase · FY 2025
$314,140
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-9
Current total levy increase expressed as a percentage after the listed budget changes.
rate · Total levy increase percentage · FY 2025
$16.22
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-10
The current total levy increase includes a $20,000 debt service levy increase.
debt_service · Debt service levy increase · FY 2025
$20,000
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-11
A 3.5% increase for COLA and merit was discussed for employee compensation.
salary · Employee compensation increase · FY 2025
$3.5
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-12
The city spends $60,000 on dust control and still receives many complaints.
expenditure · Dust control
$60,000
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-13
If the discussed changes are made, the approximate levy would be 9.6%.
rate · Approximate levy after possible changes · FY 2025
$9.6
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-14
Estimated annual impact on a median-priced home in Nowthen if the discussed changes are made.
estimate · Median-priced home annual levy impact · FY 2025
$76
unknown
Council approval status: not yet on record.
F-15
Estimated monthly impact on a median-priced home in Nowthen if the discussed changes are made.
estimate · Median-priced home monthly levy impact · FY 2025
$6.34
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
When someone tried to remember earlier business, we cross-reference the corpus and write a short related-history note.
The council and staff met on August 15, 2024, to discuss the proposed 2025 Budget. Below is the result of this budget discussion:
— Lori Yager, RTY Consulting
What this is about
The memo points back to the August 15, 2024 budget discussion and lists the resulting proposed 2025 budget changes.
The records I searched do not include the August 15, 2024 budget discussion itself or the memo page listing the proposed 2025 budget changes, so I cannot verify from these results what specific changes came out of that discussion or whether a formal vote was taken that day. The closest related records are later budget-amendment materials. At the January 13, 2026 meeting packet, staff described a proposed amendment to the 2025 budget because legal, park maintenance, accounting, election, and Sheriff costs were higher than expected, while Administration was under budget due to reorganization. At the April 14, 2026 meeting packet, another proposed amendment would move $25,000 to Fire training, funded by $15,000 from Administration and $10,000 from Contingency, after a $49,518 State firefighter pension revenue/expenditure entry caused the Fire Department to exceed its 2025 budget. That April resolution also notes that the original 2025 budget had been adopted by Resolution No. 2024-105, but these search results do not show the August 15, 2024 discussion or the original adoption vote.
Changes made in previous meetings are listed on the Memo.
What this is about
The minutes refer to changes made at prior meetings that were listed in the Finance Consultant's memo.
The records I searched do not contain a prior decision matching this recollection. The search results include references to “changes” in land-use and subdivision memos in the February 24 and March 10, 2026 packets, and “changes” in actuarial assumptions in the May 12, 2026 audit packet, but they do not show a Finance Consultant’s memo listing changes made at previous meetings. Based on these results, there is no clear record of a prior council discussion, vote, or dollar amount tied to the statement that “changes made in previous meetings are listed on the Memo.”
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