Conrad council approves budget, mulls funding for mural project

At its regular meeting on Thursday evening, the Conrad city council approved its budget as presented for fiscal year 2017 and discussed a request from the Chamber-Main Street Mural Committee for city funding of the proposed project.
 
According to the figures provided during the meeting, the tax levy rate will increase to $11.27 per $1,000 of valuation for regular property, up four cents from $11.23 in FY2016, and the city is projected to take in $1,488,209 in revenues to go with a total of $1,492,967 in expenditures and other transfers out. The beginning cash balance for the fiscal year (which begins on July 1) is $842,022, and the projected ending balance is $837,264.
 
After a brief public hearing, the council voted 3-0 (Brad Murty and Diane Miller were absent) to adopt the budget.
 
Two representatives from the mural committee spoke to the council about progress on that project: a 16x20 foot painting originally drawn up by Shelle Jordebrek that includes odes to some of the prominent features of Conrad and the city’s agricultural roots.
 
Read more in this week's Grundy Register.