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2025 Budget Communication
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESS!
The FY 2025 Village budget development and feedback process was like none other than we've seen for many years, and your flexibility to join us at meetings, sharing your voice, and continuing to engage with the Village of Shorewood has been invaluable. In all, 31 residents attended our in-person Budget Town Hall on Thursday, September 19, 2024 and another 29 attended the virtual Town Hall on Monday, September 23, 2024.
In addition to the Budget Town Hall meetings, there was a High Impact Options poll (which collected feedback from the community on which of the presented options would be their preference) that recorded 204 responses. Lastly, additional comments collected from the community (30 in all) helped formulate the Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQ, document below.
Budget questions? Let's Talk!
The budget process for FY 2025 invited the community to provide their feedback to the Village budget in a way that had not been done before. Due to the Village facing budget shortfalls from mandated improvements, there were options provided of how to creatively address them.
Your questions prompted an FAQ
Thanks to the thoughtful questions received over the course of this process, a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document has been created since many of these topics may be community conversations. To review the FAQ document, click here (also in the meetings table below).
Take our poll!
The high impact options poll was provided to help identify the community's priorities regarding potential new user fees, savings through adjustments to project timelines, or increases to the tax levy. We invited the community to attend the September 16 Village Board meeting ahead of the poll opening on Tuesday, September 17. The poll closed on September 30.
CLICK HERE to view the poll results.
Or break it down and watch a section at a time!
| * Levy Increases (0:42) | VIDEO | ONE SHEET | |
| * Recycling-Refuse Charge (1:06) | VIDEO | ONE SHEET | |
| * Vehicle Registration fee (0:44) | VIDEO | ONE SHEET | |
| * Streetlight System replacement charge (2:57) | VIDEO | ONE SHEET | |
| * Parking Utility fund balance (1:24) | VIDEO | ONE SHEET | |
| * Delay Capital asset purchases & establish capital asset policy (1:23) | VIDEO | ONE SHEET |
Schedule of meetings
| Meeting | Date | Status | Notes |
| Village Board meeting: consider budget communication plan and review of high impact options | Tuesday, September 3 @ 7:30 PM | Completed | MEETING PACKET MEETING RECORDING |
| Village Board meeting: 2025 Budget overview; Village Board considers high impact options | Monday, September 16 @ 6:00 PM | Completed | FY2025 Budget Document MEETING PACKET MEETING RECORDING |
| Budget Town Hall | Thursday, September 19 @ 6:00 PM | Completed | AGENDA PAGE FAQ DOCUMENT |
| Budget Town Hall - Zoom meeting | Monday, September 23 @ 6:00 PM | Completed | AGENDA PAGE MEETING RECORDING FAQ DOCUMENT |
| Village Board meeting: Budget review by fund, consider high impact options poll results and feedback received | Monday, October 7 @ 7:30 PM | Completed | MEETING PACKET MEETING RECORDING |
| Public Hearing to adopt 2025 Budget | Monday, November 18 @ 7:30 PM | Completed | MEETING PACKET MEETING RECORDING |
Contact us
If you have any comments/feedback, or for questions or concerns, please contact Village Manager Rebecca Ewald at rewald@shorewoodwi.gov.
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Finance Department
Physical Address
3930 N. Murray Ave.
Shorewood, WI 53211
Phone: 414-847-2602Fax: 414-847-2606
Hours
Monday - Thursday
8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday
8 a.m. - Noon