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Town Board adopts Resolution Proposing to Exceed Levy Limit Via Special Town Elector Meeting: On 10/22/25, the Town Board adopted a Resolution Proposing to Exceed the Levy Limit via a special Town Elector meeting to be held on November 13, 2025.  Request is to increase the allowable levy by $89,500. Further information regarding the Town budget, Public Hearing, and Town meetings will be posted on the website within a couple of days. RESOLUTION OF PALMYRA TOWN BOARD PROPOSING TO EXCEED LEVY LIMIT VIA SPECIAL TOWN ELECTOR MEETING Town of Palmyra, Jefferson County Resolution No. 2025-004 Whereas, the State of Wisconsin has imposed levy limits on town, village, city, and county levies for 2025 and thereafter under Wis. Stat. § 66.0602; Whereas, Wis. Stat. § 66.0602 limits the allowable local levy for 2025 to a percentage increase of no more than the greater of (a) zero percent of the 2024 payable 2025 adjusted actual levy as calculated under the state’s levy limit law or (b) a percentage equal to the percent change in equalized value due to net new construction less improvements removed, which for the Town of Palmyra is 2.119%;  Whereas, the town board of the Town of Palmyra, Jefferson County, believes that for the 2025 tax levy (to be collected in 2026) it is in the town’s best interest to exceed the state levy limit as described above by a greater percentage than 2.119%;  Whereas, the Town of Palmyra’s 2024 payable 2025 adjusted actual tax levy was $ 508,088, and further whereas the state law would limit this year’s increase to $ 10,766, for a total allowable town tax levy before adjustments for 2025 (to be collected in 2026) of $ 518,274;  THEREFORE, the town board of the Town of Palmyra, Jefferson County does hereby resolve and order as follows: The town board supports an increase in the town tax levy for 2025 that will exceed the amount allowed by the state levy limit.   The town board directs that the question of increasing the allowable town tax levy for 2025 (to be collected in 2026) by 17.2690%, which would increase the town levy by $ 89,500, for a total town tax levy (after adjustments) of $ 804,334, shall be placed on the agenda for the special town elector meeting to be held on November 13, 2025.     Resolution introduced by Chairman Sauter.  Seconded by Supervisor Gajewski.  AYES:  Gajewski, Martens, Sauter.  NOES:  None.  Adopted this  22nd day of October, 2025. Frank Sauter, Town Chair                                                                Michele Smith, Clerk/Treasurer            

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Question and Answer on Fire/EMS contract – 12/18/2021 and 12/22/2021

Q.  To the Town of Palmyra Board members and the Fire/EMS committee people.  In respect to the town board meeting re: fire/ems services and in reading the response to the question that was posed on this website, I now have more questions than before regarding the board and committee looking into other public/private options. Here are my questions:  What is the ISO rating of each of your other” options”? Are these “options” 5 driving miles or less from us constituents? Where are their water sources? What types of equipment is owned? Who owns them? Who maintains them? Where is this equipment stored? Is there 24/7 coverage? Who pays the personnel? How many full and part time personnel are employed at each of your “options”? Who pays for the training of said personnel? And the most important question I have is what is the average response time on a fire/ems call of each of your “options” to us constituents? Is the response time 4.5 minutes or less? As we all know, in the case of a medical emergency, such as heart attacks or strokes, seconds count and with structure fires, a fast response time can mean the difference between losing little or losing everything.

Q.  Could you please provide the ISO (Insurance Services Office) ratings for any options you are considering in lieu of the Palmyra Public Safety Department contract.

A.  At this point, the committee has not gathered all of the information you request.  The committee has begun by investigating the possibility and efficiency of splitting the Town into separate parts and joining districts which already serve our community via MABAS.   The committee has also considered the efficiency of becoming part of a single other district and providing space for emergency vehicles within the Town.  There has been no thought given to any service that does not provide 24/7 coverage.  As I am sure you are aware, many constituents in the Town do not currently receive 4.5 minute responses, nor does the Village claim that they do. 

Should the Town board wish the fire and ems committee to continue investigating options for service other than  service from the Village of Palmyra, the committee will continue doing so in 2022 and report that information to the Town board.