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Your local briefing · Oct. 24, 2026
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- Willard adopts fiscal 2027 budget; mayor and police chief discuss police budget growth
Whether the final signed budget schedule matches the packet's police figures. The packet lists $852,237 in a requested-budget column, and the Ledger has not matched it to a signed final exhibit.
- Willard's fiscal 2025 audit reports $228,309 left on a 2019 developer impact fee advance
The audit does not name the developers or give the advance's written terms.
- Willard's sewer bonds: $8.63 million outstanding, with principal scheduled through 2045
The fiscal 2026 audit has not been published.
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Willard adopts fiscal 2027 budget; mayor and police chief discuss police budget growth
Willard's council adopted its fiscal 2026-27 budget 4-0 on June 25, 2026, and kept the property tax rate unchanged. Mayor Travis Mote said police budget increases had outpaced population growth and inflation; the police chief said salaries drove them.
Willard's fiscal 2025 audit reports $228,309 left on a 2019 developer impact fee advance
Developers advanced Willard $500,000 of impact fees in fiscal 2019 for utility infrastructure, to be repaid as lot owners pay their own fees. The fiscal 2025 audit reports $228,309 still owed. The water and sewer funds collected $650,115 in impact fees that year.
Willard's sewer bonds: $8.63 million outstanding, with principal scheduled through 2045
Willard refinanced its 2008 sewer bonds in 2015 to defer principal because growth came in below expectations, the audit says. $8.63 million remained on June 30, 2025, and the last scheduled payments run through 2045.
Willard council approves the Perry/Willard sewer plant budget; Willard's estimated share is about $299,000
Willard's council approved the joint wastewater treatment plant budget 4-0 on June 25, 2026. The minutes record that the circulated document showed a larger variance than the amendment described to the joint sewer board, and that a budget amendment might follow. Willard's estimated contribution was about $299,000 for fiscal 2026-27.
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