The Dorr Township Board Thursday night adopted a general fund budget of about $1.1 million Thursday night.
The board is anticipating spending $1.108 million and taking in about $1.067 million in revenue and the fund balance, or rainy day fund, is expected to be just shy of about $1.49 million by next March 31 (2018), a decrease of about $112,000.
Township Treasurer Jim Martin said that if the fiscal year budget ended today, “but it doesn’t,” the township’s fund balance “would be $55,907 to the good.”
Martin added that the budget shows “basically a 1% increase over last year in expenditures.”
The document for the first time includes nearly $700,000 dedicated only for local roads after passage of a three-mill increase proposal in the primary election last August, along with the restoration of a half mill for $112,000 for the fire department for equipment and maintenance.
The vote to adopt the budget was 6-1, with Trustee Terry Rios dissenting, but she did not disclose why.
The new budget fiscal year year begins April 1 and concludes on March 31, 2018.
