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The Fitchburg Common Council convened on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at approximately 6:00 PM. The meeting focused on the Finance Director's report, budget amendments, and multiple property and equipment resolutions. All actions were passed unanimously.
Hi, I'm Jeremy Progby. And I'm Mick Boucher. We're your hosts for the program. It's all about your city, Talking Fitchburg. Every weekday, we pull together the news, events, and information you need to stay on top of what's happening in the city of Fitchburg. Find Talking Fitchburg on Cable TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and our live stream on the web. Plus, you can find all our headlines and stories on Facebook, YouTube, and our video on demand service. This is your city. Keep up with Talking Fitchburg and the issues affecting you and your neighbors. Want to know what's happening in your city? Get notify me messages from the city of Fitchburg. Visit Fitchburg WI.gov on your computer or mobile device and select the big notify me button on the left. Enter your email and or phone number, whichever is best for you to get notifications. Scroll down the list and select all the topics you're interested in to receive email or text messages about. You'll be notified every time one of your topics is updated. Sign up for Notify Me. One more way to keep up with your Fitchburg government. Move to approval. Someone didn't say who says approve. Micah. Move to approve. Okay, there it is. Okay. Motion to review Alder Let us say. Uh comments or questions. Seeing none, we can vote all in favor of adopting the October 28, 2025 minutes. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries unanimously. Uh moving on to item three, public appearances for non-agenda items. We don't have anybody in chambers or online to speak, so we will move on to item four, finance director report. Misty? So there's a lot of information in the packet that I'll start with. So first is the write-offs. So we approved a new write-off policy last year. It was the first one the city had. And so last year, around this time-ish, we did a really big batch of write-offs of really old stuff. But we had told you at that point that there's a lot more coming as we're kind of working through what this process looks like. So there's another relatively large batch of write-offs that we are sharing with you at this point. Under our current policy that was adopted by council, we basically follow purchasing requirements. So if it's $5,000 or less and meet the guidelines that are in the policy, staff can write them off, but we report back to you as finance. If there's an individual one that's 5,000 to 25,000, we need to get mayor approval, 25,000 and above. We need council approval to actually do the write-off. Um, all the ones that are in front of you now fall in that less than 5,000 that staff followed the guidelines and wrote them off, but are reporting to you so that you're aware. Um you'll see there's a bunch of them that are all prior to June 30th of 2019. And then there's a couple other ones that should have been on the list last time, but were missed or done a little bit differently.