GRAND CHUTE, Wis–Grand Chute residents will vote this November to raise their property taxes to hire more police officers. The town will present a referendum question requesting funding for five more positions in the police department.
That would include three patrol officers, a supervisor, and an investigator. Estimated costs would be $741,000 a year. That would increase the department’s number of officers from 37 to 42.
A proposed referendum that would also ask to fund street reconstruction projects through property taxes instead of using special assessments has been pushed back to April. The Grand Chute Town Board learned that it can only put one measure to exceed the state-mandated revenue cap on the ballot at a time.
