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The Tuesday, Feb. 11, meeting of the Windsor Town Council will feature the first major items of the town’s fiscal year 2025 budget calendar, as well as some key capital projects updates.

Windsor Town Manager William Saunders will be briefing the council on the town’s FY25 year-to-date revenues and expenses, also known as the FY25 Six-Month Budget Review.

The slideshow presentation included in the council meeting packet indicates that the review will be a positive report, with the town’s overall financial condition remaining sound.

Saunders will address six-month actual numbers compared to the budgeted amounts for utility tax, personal property tax, real estate tax, sales tax, meals tax and cigarette tax. He will also be addressing six-month numbers compared to the budget for the General Fund and Water Fund.

The other major item Saunders will be addressing that is part of the town’s FY25 budget calendar is a presentation of the FY25 General Fund Year-End Revenue Projections.

During the council meeting’s Capital Projects Update, Saunders will talk about how town staff is handling what he noted as the unresponsiveness of the contractor in reference to the Duke Street & Virginia Avenue Water Main Replacement Project. 

In the Capital Projects Updates that Saunders provided during the council’s September 2024, October 2024, November 2024, December 2024 and January 2025 meetings, he noted that the town was awaiting a revised plan for chlorination, flushing and sampling from the contractor for the water main replacement project.

On Feb. 11, Saunders will also be giving an update on the town’s acquisition of a circa 1927 red Norfolk & Western caboose, sharing the latest on the efforts to move the train car from Suffolk and the efforts to perform an exterior renovation of it.

Among the other standing agenda items for the council’s meeting, Windsor Town Treasurer Cheryl McClanahan will present her monthly treasurer’s report, highlighting, along with other details, the average percentage of personal property taxes collected by the end of January.