Budget Hearing Meeting Minutes – March 30, 2026
BUDGET HEARING – VILLAGE OF NORTHVILLE
Monday, March 30, 2026
The Village Board conducted a budget hearing on Monday, March 30, 2026, commencing at 6:30 PM.
Present: Sue Eckert, Mayor
John Markiewicz, Trustee
Janet Rudd, Trustee
Sue Sedon, Trustee
Kathleen Terwilliger, Trustee
Treasurer: Nathanial Matthews
Recording Secretary: Wendy Reu, Clerk
Mayor Eckert opened the Budget Hearing at 6:30 p.m. on a motion by Trustee Sedon, seconded by Trustee Rudd and carried by voice vote as follows:
AYE: Trustee Markiewicz, Trustee Rudd, Trustee Sedon, Trustee Terwilliger
NAY: 0
ABSTAIN: 0
Public Attendance – No Public present
Mayor Eckert indicated that the Budget before the Board was what was reviewed by them at the Budget Workshop on March 19, 2026.
At 6:40 p.m., Mayor Eckert closed the public access portion of the Budget Hearing on a motion by Trustee Markiewicz, seconded by Trustee Sedon, and carried by voice vote as follows:
AYE: Trustee Markiewicz, Trustee Rudd, Trustee Sedon, Trustee Terwilliger
NAY: 0
ABSTAIN: 0
Mayor Eckert proffered the tentative budget, also labeled “Preliminary Budget”. The following resolution was proposed by Mayor Eckert who urged its adoption.
RESOLUTION #2 of 2026
| A RESOLUTION ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JUNE 1, 2026 AND ENDING MAY 31, 2027, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE VILLAGE OF NORTHVILLE GOVERNMENT, AND ESTABLISHING THE RATES OF COMPENSATION FOR OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES FOR SUCH PERIOD |
WHEREAS this board has met at the time and place specified in the notice of public hearing on the preliminary budget and heard all person desiring to be heard thereon;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the preliminary budget as proffered and as hereinafter set forth is hereby adopted and that the several amounts stated in the column titled “Adopted” in Schedules A1, F1, and J1 be and hereby are appropriated for the objects and purposes specified and the salaries and wages stated in Schedule 5 of such budget shall be and are hereby fixed at the amounts shown there, effective June 1, 2026.
Motion to pass the budget as proposed in the Preliminary Budget was made by Trustee Rudd, seconded by Trustee Terwilliger, and passed by roll call vote as follows.
AYE: Trustee Rudd, Trustee Sedon, Trustee Terwilliger
NAY: 0
ABSTAIN: Trustee Markiewicz
ADJOURNMENT: Motion to adjourn was made at 6:39 p.m. by Trustee Markiewicz, seconded by Trustee Sedon, and passed by voice vote, no one dissenting.
Respectfully submitted,
Wendy L. Reu, Village Clerk
