Adams Township will vote to adopt its budget for the 2025 fiscal year at a special meeting at 8 a.m. Dec. 23.
A draft of the budget was assembled and approved at a budget work session on Dec. 2, and includes no increase to the township’s millage rate of 3.75 mills. According to township Supervisor Russell Ford, this will mark 30 straight years that Adams Township has held the line on taxes.
“Adams Township has once again found a way to balance its budget and not raise taxes,” Ford said. “We haven’t raised taxes in this township since 1994.”
The township’s draft general fund calls for $10,131,024 in revenue and $10,129,716 in expenditures for 2025, making for a slight surplus of $1,308.
More than half the township’s revenue would come from taxes, with $850,000 coming from real estate taxes and $6 million from the earned income tax. Another $350,000 would come from building permits.
On the expenditures site, the largest single item is full-time wages for Adams Township police officers, which adds up to $1,708,000, while wages for road department employees add up to $468,330. “Building and capital construction” takes up $900,000, while another $500,000 is dedicated to building repair and maintenance.
The township is also expecting $552,290 in liquid fuels and other state funds, $500,000 of which it is aiming to spend on highway construction.
In the draft budget, the township intends to transfer $335,000 from the general fund to the park fund to offset expenditures there, such as the cost of holding events, field maintenance and engineering fees.
