Bid to trim Marathon County’s 8.2% levy increase fails by one vote

By Shereen Siewert | Wausau Pilot & Review WAUSAU — The average Marathon County homeowner will pay about $53 more in county taxes next year after supervisors Tuesday fell one vote short of shrinking an 8.2% levy increase. The 2027 budget the Marathon County Board adopted 30-5 raises the property tax levy to $66.25 million, up $5.02 million from this year. Nearly two-thirds of the increase, $3.2 million, comes from the financing plan for the county’s new $55 million Highway Department facility in Kronenwetter, which shifts the county’s full annual debt payments onto property taxpayers. “This 8% increase is totally egregious,” Supervisor Tim Sondelski said before supervisors voted down his amendment to trim $1.75 million from the increase.

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