By Greg Chandler
Zeeland Record
With little fanfare, the Zeeland City Council Monday approved the city’s spending plan for the new fiscal year that begins July 1.
Under the city’s 2025-26 budget, the city plans to spend $2,686,716 out of reserves in its various funds, including $597,077 out of the general fund, for improvement projects. They will go for such projects as the reconstruction of Taft Street, expansion and renovation of Hoogland Park and a chiller replacement project at the Howard Miller Library and Community Center.
“This is purposeful. I mean, these are long-term, strategic projects – street reconstruction, park projects … that we’ve saved these funds for, and now we’re spending those funds,” Assistant City Manager and Finance Director Kevin Plockmeyer said. “We’ll go through that cycle again where we save and then spend. We’re in one of those spend cycles right now.”
The budget calls for total net expenditures across all city departments at $71,213,696, the vast majority of it coming from the Board of Public Works at $49,431,174. Total net revenues for the new fiscal year are expected to come in at $68,438,968, Plockmeyer said.
General fund expenditures will increase only 0.7 percent from the current fiscal year to $10,849,904, with revenues of $10,252,827. The city will transfer $1.5 million out of general fund spending for street projects and another $600,000 to the library.
The city’s tax rate will remain stable at 11.1354 mills for general operations. But with a 4.48 percent growth in the city’s tax base to more than $635 million, each mill is expected to generate $608,264 in the new fiscal year, Plockmeyer said.
Zeeland Record
With little fanfare, the Zeeland City Council Monday approved the city’s spending plan for the new fiscal year that begins July 1.
Under the city’s 2025-26 budget, the city plans to spend $2,686,716 out of reserves in its various funds, including $597,077 out of the general fund, for improvement projects. They will go for such projects as the reconstruction of Taft Street, expansion and renovation of Hoogland Park and a chiller replacement project at the Howard Miller Library and Community Center.
“This is purposeful. I mean, these are long-term, strategic projects – street reconstruction, park projects … that we’ve saved these funds for, and now we’re spending those funds,” Assistant City Manager and Finance Director Kevin Plockmeyer said. “We’ll go through that cycle again where we save and then spend. We’re in one of those spend cycles right now.”
The budget calls for total net expenditures across all city departments at $71,213,696, the vast majority of it coming from the Board of Public Works at $49,431,174. Total net revenues for the new fiscal year are expected to come in at $68,438,968, Plockmeyer said.
General fund expenditures will increase only 0.7 percent from the current fiscal year to $10,849,904, with revenues of $10,252,827. The city will transfer $1.5 million out of general fund spending for street projects and another $600,000 to the library.
The city’s tax rate will remain stable at 11.1354 mills for general operations. But with a 4.48 percent growth in the city’s tax base to more than $635 million, each mill is expected to generate $608,264 in the new fiscal year, Plockmeyer said.
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