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The Finance Committee of the Fitchburg Common Council met on November 25, 2025, at 5:33 PM. The meeting included a preliminary property tax report, budget amendments, a discussion on the Flock camera subscription renewal, and multiple purchases for the new police services facility. All actions taken to a vote were unanimous.
Hi, I'm Jeremy Proxby. And I'm Nick Boucher. We're your hosts for the program that'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 Pittsburgh. Find Talking Fitzburg 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 Fitzburg 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. Sign up for Notify Me. One more way to keep up with your Fitchburg government. I call to order the meeting of the Finance Committee on November 25th, 2025 at 5 33 p.m. First item of business is the approval of minutes. I'll need a motion on the draft minutes of the October 11, 2025 finance committee meeting. I'll move to approve the minutes. Motion approved by Alder LaDessay. Any comments or questions? Seeing none, all in favor of accepting the minutes, say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries unanimously. Moving on to item three, public appearances for non-agenda items. We have nobody in chambers or online. So we can move on to item four, finance director report, and I believe our administrator is filling in in our finance director's absence. I am. Good evening, everyone. We had a uh previous discussion in advance of the meeting that I am not necessarily a very sound substitute for our finance director. Uh, but I am what you have available this evening. So I will start off uh just by uh sharing some brief information. Uh Misty had mentioned to me that uh she had been begun to receive all of the taxing jurisdictions information uh in advance of the tax uh property tax bills that'll be going out next month. Uh so she's uh compiled the preliminary numbers. They do uh still need to be uh verified uh with Dane County yet, obviously before the tax bills go out, but uh preliminarily I will share uh what we are looking at at this point in time, and I will also share this information during the administrator's report at the common council meeting. Uh but I'm gonna start and end uh this information by saying the city portion of the tax bill uh increased $83 or 3.1%. And the overall estimated tax and impact for an average single family home in Fitchburg based on school district is as follows. The uh Madison Metropolitan School District is uh a nine hundred and eighty-eight dollar increase. The Oregon School District is looking at a two hundred and sixty-seven dollar increase. And the Verona area school district is looking at a four hundred and sixty-five dollar increase. And I will also reiterate that the dollar amount that this common council has uh influence and control over was an eighty-three dollar increase out of those totals that I just provided to you. So uh obviously, as I mentioned, Misty's in the process of verifying information with Dane County, but we do believe that those are uh fairly uh accurate preliminary numbers at this point in time. So that's inclusive of Dane County. Yep, that's inclusive.