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<br />CONTRACTED SERVICES – 9% of expenditures. <br />Contracted Services are expected to increase $87,000 based on actual 2025 costs and known increases: <br />• General fund of contracted informaƟon technology costs are increasing $14,250. <br />• Miscellaneous contracted services and Professional services are expected to increase $39,000 <br />based on 2025 actual costs <br />• Building Permit expense is expected to increase $33,700 based on 2025 actual costs; this cost is <br />offset by an expected increase in permit revenues. <br />OTHER INSURANCE COSTS – 2% of expenditures <br />Overall cost is expected to decrease by $16,700 due to the announcement of a 25% reducƟon in the <br />second half 2026 premiums for Workers’ CompensaƟon rates. <br />PASS THROUGH COSTS – 3% of expenditures <br />Increasing $3,500. There is no levy impact of pass-through costs. <br />SUPPLIES AND UTILITY COSTS – 7% of expenditures <br />Expected to decrease $200. This esƟmate is based on actual expenditures for 2024 and 2025. <br />REMAINING BUDGET LINE ITEMS – 2% of overall expenditures <br />Costs expected to decrease $21,800. This decrease is largely due to accounƟng for Sustainability costs in <br />its own department within AdministraƟon rather than in Miscellaneous costs, which makes up $14,000 <br />of this decrease. <br />GENERAL FUND REVENUES <br />• Liquor transfer to the General Fund will be $300,000 (same as 2025). <br />• 2025 State-funded Local Government Aid reflects increases around $2,400, not a significant <br />impact. <br />• Police contracted services and police-related grants and aid revenue are now accounted for in a <br />special revenue fund rather than in the general fund. This is a significant decrease in general <br />fund revenues that are offset by a decrease in police expenditures. <br />• Excess Tax Increment collecƟons are projected to increase by $50,000 in 2026. <br />• The chart below demonstrates the percentage of revenue sources that fund the General Fund: <br /> <br />Tax Levy, <br />75% <br />Licenses, <br />Permits, & <br />Fines, 5% <br />Intergov't <br />Revenue, <br />10% <br />Contracts, <br />3% <br />Miscellaneous, 2% <br />Transfers, 5% <br />GENERAL FUND <br />REVENUES <br />60