The Finance and Taxation Committee of the City of Monroe met on Monday, April 13, 2026, at City Hall Council Chambers. The meeting was called to order at 5:29 PM, with present members: Heidi Treuthardt, Dylan McGuire, Richard Thoman, and Matt Sheaffer. The committee considered approval of accounts receivable write-offs, entered closed session to discuss property sales, and made a recommendation on a letter of interest for a five-acre parcel.
Oh wait, we'll call the finance and taxation committee to order, or the clerk please take the roll call. Alder Truehart? Here. Alder Tolman? Here. Alder Schaefer. Here. Alder McGuire. Here. Are there any corrections to the March 23rd, 2026 minutes? Hearing none, those will stand as written. Our first order of business is approval of resolution authorizing accounts receivable write-offs and accounting adjustments. This is administrator Indy. And so just kind of with our if this is an annual process that we have been doing based on our policy for accounts receivable of making sure we kind of go through and clean up when things become uncollectible over time through our policy that we have of the various steps of attempting to collect it. For those of you, I mean Alder Tolman maybe does recall. I think it was back in like 2019 or something. We had hadn't been following a policy or process, and you end up then with years built up of uncollectible amounts and are writing off larger amounts, so it's a lot better to kind of chew it off and have consistent practice of going into going into it. So looking to receive approval to write off a total of $2,303 of various accounts receivables that you can see. Also using attorney Bardoff when after so long. If they do have a driver's license, there are sometimes if it's accident related where we can have the police department file and kind of put a hold or file something on their actual license. But if they don't live within the the city or have an active Wisconsin license, then those kind of become inaccessible. The ones I do kind of note for some of the personal property tax ones that you see. But it is possible that we'll see those three still come through and we'll record those as miscellaneous revenues when they do come through, but it could be well into next year at some point when those do so kind of a rough summary there, but this is something that you guys would just approve. It does not have to go on to council, and I I guess welcome any questions you have on the process or or what's there. Yeah, my initial comment. I unless I'm mistaken, this is a lot smaller than what we've seen in the past. It is, yeah. That's good. I will make a motion to approve these write-offs. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any other comments or questions? Can you tell me what TRIP stands for? Is it tax okay? I thought maybe a new offhand. Had to have Kristen kind of give me some background on it too. Is she uh and I didn't include it in my memo there? Tax rec tax recovery program, something program close enough. I was just I figured it was something like that. Tax tax refund interception program. So yeah, I think it's like when if once we submit it and they file their taxes, if they are eligible for a refund, we get to take part of that to the case. Usually it's just a state return though. Yes, just a state. It's not federal. Okay, any other comments or questions? Just f why that happens a lot with forfeitures and stuff that we get over at with traffic tickets for those type of things. If after a while they they will submit them there and they'll get a lot of them through the state tax returns. So there aren't any more questions. Do we does this need to be read or can we just take a vote? Okay, we'll just take a roll call vote, please.