Boyceville Village Board approves budget for 2024
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By Renee Bettendorf
BOYCEVILLE- The Boyceville Village Board met on Monday evening with board members Jonathan Farrell and Brad Stevens absent and approved a budget, levy limit and a fine and fee schedule for the upcoming year.
The 2024 budget predicts a little over $1.5 million in total expenses and revenues. On the expenditure side the two biggest expenses will be for public safety at about $520,000 and public works at about $409,000.
Other expenses include; culture, recreation, education at about $208,000 and general government, capital outlay and debt service coming in at about $170,000, $107,000 and $101,000. Conservation and development and health and human services are expected to cost the village about $3,150 and $5,700 respectively.
On the revenue side, roughly $817,000 is expected from intergovernmental revenues, $280,000 from taxes, $201,000 from public charges for services and $174,000 from other financing sources.
Smaller amounts of revenue are expected from miscellaneous revenue at about $33,000, intergovernmental charges $13,000, licenses and permits $4,600, fines, forfeits and penalties $1,800 and special assessments $50.00.
After there were no public comments about the 2024 proposed budget, the board passed it unanimously.
They also voted unanimously to adopt a levy limit of $233,979 after Village Clerk Treasurer, Brittany Halvorson presented a municipal levy limit worksheet to the board.
Another item that was unanimously approved was an updated fine and fee schedule after Boyceville Chief of Police, Greg Lamkin, went over some changes he made to the schedule.
One change in the schedule is an increase in parking fines. Currently parking tickets are $10 for the first offense, $25 for a second offense within six months and $50 for a third offense within six months. The second and third offense ticket costs will increase in 2024 to $50 and $100 respectively.
Another change in the fine and fee schedule is an increase in fines paid for false burglar/hold up alarms. These fines will increase to $100 for a third and fourth false alarm per calendar year and $200 for a fifth and sixth false alarm per calendar year.
Lamkin said there have been more false burglary alarms than usual and some residents are not following the winter parking rules.
“We’ll see if these higher fines help,” said Chief Lamkin.
Chief Lamkin also presented the board an overview of Boyceville Police activity for the month of November which included 107 calls for service. Of those calls 16 were for traffic, 43 for service, 11 for criminal, 31 for general and six for ordinance.
According to Chief Lamkin calls for service year to date, totals are down this year. In 2021 the department had 2,139 calls for service and in 2022 they had 2,518. This year they have had 1,514 calls for service so far.
Chief Lamkin also spoke about the department’s budget. He said they are on track to conclude the year with a budget surplus.
The Boyceville Village Board also:
-Approved a change in how village employee vacation time is accrued.
-Approved a list of nine poll workers for 2024/2025.
