BRONSON, MI (WTVB) – The Bronson City Council formally approved the city’s 2021-2022 Fiscal Year budget on Monday as they met in the City Council chambers for the first time since March of 2020.
City Manager Brandon Mersman said the budget has a projected deficit of just over $286,000 due to uncertainty over state revenue sharing and ACT 51 road funds following the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Council passed a resolution which amends the 2021 Fiscal Year budget. Mersman said they anticipated revenues to exceed expenses in the General Fund by a healthy amount due in large part to the city getting larger than expected revenues from the state’s Personal Property Tax Reimbursement Programs. In addition, the city will be getting COVID-19 funds though various grants.
In other business, the Council approved a wage re-opener with the Police Officers Association of Michigan under the terms of the final year of a contract. Bronson Police Officers represented by the P.O.A.M. will get a two-and-a-half percent wage increase which is in line with a wage increase for non-union employees that is included in the 2022 Fiscal Year budget.
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