Leelanau Township unanimously approved its 2024-25 recommended budget of $851,940, as well as four township officer salary resolutions on Monday. Emergency Services fund revenues come in at $1,843,212, which makes up 59% of the revenue allocation, while the general fund revenue makes up 19%. Expenditures for the budget total are $2.8 million, with 53%, or $1.48 million, of those appropriations being wages and benefits.
Township board trustees held a special meeting Monday morning to thoroughly discuss and review with the public its budget for the new fiscal year starting April 1 through March 31, 2025. The budget meeting was originally set for last week Tuesday, but another meeting had to be scheduled to allow for more discussion and questions from members of the public.
Township Supervisor Mike McMillan, who was appointed to the position last spring, said he thought it was a productive meeting and a learning process for himself shifting from private to public budget planning.
