By John Holler
Wright County Communications Specialist
At a Sept. 26 special meeting of the Wright County Board, the commissioners approved its 2024 preliminary levy of $95,003,567 – an increase of 4.8 percent from 2023. The vote was 4-1 with Commissioner Mike Kaczmarek voting against approval, citing that he felt more could have been trimmed from the proposed $201.5 million budget and $95 million levy.
Board Chairman Darek Vetsch said Wright County has gone to great lengths to stabilize tax rates and capture new growth to keep levy increases from spiking like they did in 2018, when the levy increased by 17.3 percent because of years of trying to keep levies extremely low while costs and debt grew.