According to the Appleton Post-Crescent, at its Annual Meeting on November 10, 2022, the Outagamie County Board of Supervisors approved a 2023 budget of $420.3 million, “a 30% increase from the $322.5 million 2022 budget.” The budget includes a 1.9% increase in the tax levy.
The board approved the 658-page budget on a 29-1 vote in just over 30 minutes, according to WLUK and other news reports. According to the meeting minutes, six board members were absent and did not vote on the budget: Hermes, Lamers, McCabe, Rettler, Thyssen, and Wegand.
The approved budget is available online here:Â https://storage.outagamie.org/storage/Finance/2023_Adopted_Budget_Final.pdf.
Budgets since 2012 are available here:Â https://www.outagamie.org/government/document-central-folder-view/-folder-1922
According to the county, the average home ($224,076 value) will pay $724 in county property taxes, a $17 (2.4%) increase from 2022.
That budget included an 87% increase in the budget for Appleton International Airport. According to the Appleton Post-Crescent,
The airport is a self-funded county department that uses federal and state money, in addition to operating revenue, to pay for its projects — meaning its budget is not typically supported by the county tax levy and doesn’t affect property taxes. However, the County Board did approve a one-time $10 million boost for an airport expansion project in 2023 that will come from the levy, in addition to approving the overall airport budget increase.
The table and figures below provide more detail about the county’s 2023 budget.
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