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Village of Mazo Approves Budget VOL. 3, WK. 50 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2019 $1.00 Autumn on the farm Village of Mazo Photographer Mitchell Travis traveled to a 150 year-old farm near Blue Mounds in approves budget November. This is the photo essay of his visit. For more photos, see page 4. $115,000 in cuts to PD lead budget reductions hearing. by JOE BLOCK Editor The notice of the public hearing was properly posted The Village of Mazomanie and appeared in the newspaper. passed the 2020 municipal The 2020 budget included budget at its meeting on Nov. $500 towards Northwest Dane 26. Despite increased costs Senior Services (NWDSS). due to last year’s flood, taxes NWDSS had asked for $9,960. will increase by only 1.6%. A Last month the village board $100,000 home will see an $11 voted to sponsor a fundraiser tax increase from the year be- for the remaining funds. To fore. date, the fundraiser has totaled Villages in Wisconsin are $3,150. The remaining villages constrained by a levy limit, and towns served by NWDSS, which caps their municipal with the exception of the town budget at the previous year’s of Black Earth, have fully amount. The only increase al- funded NWDSS, or just near lowed is through value added full funding. by net new construction. Al- Ginny Dennis thanked the though the village saw an in- board for their sponsorship of crease in new construction, that the NWDSS fundraiser during value was offset by flood dam- the public comment period. aged homes. In general, tax Cardinal Glass will be ex- rates are then determined by panding their building, increas- dividing total equalized value ing from 100,000 to 170,000 by the total municipal budget. square feet. The line that tem- The budget passed unani- pers glass will be moved from mously. Trustee Natalie Beil Tomah to Mazomanie, adding was absent. The village was 20 to 30 new jobs. Electri- left with a $104.52 balance cal upgrades will be required, in the budget after all the cuts including new transformers were made. and breakers, which will cost The village did fail to hold roughly $300,000. The village a public hearing for the bud- is examining whether the cost get, which is required by State can be added to TIF #4, which Statute 65.90. Public hearings will recover the costs through allow residents to speak before increases in property value. the board, in this case about the Repairs to the roof of the budget, without the normal lim- Historical Society Museum itations imposed during public will cost roughly $60,000. comment at board meetings. Given the age of the building A lawyer at the Wisconsin and unknown needs, the bid Newspaper Association deter- included set unit costs for ma- mined that since residents were terials. allowed to speak at the board A new ambulance will be Top, the farm, with Blue Mounds in the background. Above, still used for storage, the upper level of the barn is lit by the meeting--which they did--the delivered in January. The pur- sun. PHOTOS BY MITCHELL TRAVIS village essentially held a public SEE MAZO, PAGE 4 George Culver Community Library becoming a reality in Sauk City Ground was broken for the future George Culver Community Library in Sauk City on Thursday, Dec 5. Craig Culver made an appearance, talking about how it all started with the first Culvers just down the street. PHOTO BY SHELLEY GRANBERG PAGE 2 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2019 EDITORIAL tration with, in particular, the The remainder of the trust- ing the cut to NWDSS. She comfortable with more than the AROUND THE Town of Black Earth and the ees, except Natalie Beil, re- is also a member of the three- [$500] placeholder.” Village of Mazomanie.” mained silent on the topic. person finance committee, “What if we meet in the mid- The Town of Black Earth Beil voted against the mea- along with Harrop and trustee dle and say $1000?” asked Beil. has never contributed since the sure. She said Harrop’s lan- Troy Ruland. That committee Harrop’s reply was “no.” B L O C K inception of NWDSS in 1975. guage at the meeting--where determines the final budget that While that’s troublesome, it’s a he had said the village at that trustees approve. I opened this column by BY JOE BLOCK separate issue, and the Village point had a projected surplus of At the October 11 finance saying the issue of NWDSS of Mazomanie takes up a larger $50.45 for 2020--was a “scare committee meeting, the pro- funding by the Village of to $500. In the initial budget Northwest Dane Senior portion of NWDSS’ services. tactic.” posed 2020 budget had cut Mazomanie began and ended for 2020, the village reduced its Services and the Village NWDSS asks the village for That the village only had a NWDSS’s funding to zero. Beil with a mistake, and in the time contribution to zero. NWDSS of Mazomanie three times as much funding $50.45 surplus is an odd ob- said, “Once this falls off the between there was frustrating asked for $9960. as the Town of Black Earth. In servation. Village budgets must budget it’s going to be tooth silence. Mazomanie’s decision to un- I did not know that this addition, nearly 12 percent of be balanced according to state and nails to get it back on the At a recent meeting, in derfund Northwest Dane Senior had been a simmering issue Mazomanie residents are over statues. budget.” discussing public comments Services (NWDSS) began and for years. So I reached out to the age of 65. Harrop repeatedly cited flood “Historically we’ve given at Mazomanie village board ended with a mistake. In the Glunn. NWDSS gives back to the expenses as the reason for the them $500. Why can’t we give meetings, trustee Jeri Spring- time in between there was frus- My October 3 article detailed village residents, too. Vicki cut to NWDSS funding. Beil it to them next year?” stead stressed the importance trating silence. the consequences of the vil- Beres, the NWDSS case man- pushed back, noting surround- She continued, “I think $500 of listening to residents during At the September 7 monthly lage’s continued lack of fund- ager, said that in 2019 she ing communities suffered flood is a good faith donation from meetings. meeting of the Village of Black ing for NWDSS. Glunn was saved village residents $4650 expenses as well. She said the the village, saying ‘Hey, we do “We have to hear from con- Earth, Paulette Glunn, Ex- passionate in our interview, in Medicare Part D drug plans. flood was a “one time thing- support this.’” stituents,” said Harrop. ecutive Director of NWDSS, and the thing she said that most And that--NWDSS providing -hopefully,” and it didn’t ex- Harrop said, “I’m not averse Several Mazomanie residents mistakenly said the Town of stood out to me was the ques- tangible services to the village- plain the historical reduction in to leaving that issue on the did speak about the lack of Mazomanie had committed tion she posed to the village: -was a part of the funding issue. funding. table.” NWDSS funding. Although not only $500 in 2019 toward the “Tell me where they want these Village Administrator Peter Mazomanie is not alone in “It makes common sense, but in great numbers, they stressed annual ask for services. The day people to go.” Huebner, who was on the Fi- needing to reduce expenses. A it also makes conscience sense the importance of providing after that week’s issue arrived The details are yet to be nance Committee at the time, local municipality cut nearly to leave this on the budget,” funds, both at board meetings in the mail, I received several determined, but the elderly told me “we wanted to make $125,000 in order to balance said Beil. and finance committee meet- phone calls from understand- residents of the Village of sure the money was going back their budget. Another did not Harrop ended the meeting ings. They implored the board ably upset town residents. (Full Mazomanie will see a reduc- to the taxpayers.” He added that know until minutes before ap- by saying, “My instruction- to contribute more. disclosure: I am also a resident tion in services going forward. he was speaking in the context proving the final budget if they -my preference--is that noth- Once resident thanked the of the Town of Mazomanie.) Since the reduction in funding of the village examining all the would cover expenses. The ing further be changed on these board for the fundraiser. One. The Town of Mazomanie had in 2016, NWDSS’s services to services they provide, for ex- local school district, chronically [budget categories] so we don’t When the board finally ap- actually contributed not just the the village have increasingly ample, the pool and splashpad. underfunded due to the state’s have to go back.” The $500 for proved the budget at the No- full ask, but $50 more in 2019, been provided free of charge. Village President Gary Har- limits on taxing, recently asked NWDSS remained. vember 26 meeting, not one for a total of $5500. It was the That was unsustainable, ac- rop said at a board meeting that residents for nearly $2 million At the November 21 Finance trustee said a word about the Village of Mazomanie that con- cording to Glunn, as much he did not remember why fund- a year for the next five years.
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