Have a Safe and Happy Holiday Weekend!!!!!
Open Book & Board of Review
VILLAGE OF ALBANY 2024 OPEN BOOK HOURS
Please take notice that the Village of Albany will be holding Open Book Hours for the 2023 Assessment Roll on Thursday, April 25, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. via phone at 1-920-749-1995. Open Book meetings can be held by phone, email, or internet video conferencing. You may call and if the assessor is not available at the time of your call, please leave a message with your name, phone number, municipality and they will make every effort to return your call within 24 hours. You may contact the assessor at the following:
Associated Appraisal Consultants
1-920-749-1995
Email: [email protected]
2024 BOARD OF REVIEW HOURS
If you are not able to reach an understanding at the Open Book with the Assessor, you may call up to 3 days prior to the Board of Review to schedule your Board of Review meeting. Property owners may review and examine the 2023 proposed property assessment roll and discuss their concerns with the village assessor at the Board of Review. Unresolved 2023 assessment matters can be brought to the 2024 Board of Review, which is scheduled for Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at 6-8 p.m. in the Albany Village Hall at 206 North Water Street, Albany, WI 53502. Objection forms must be completed to appear before the Board of Review; appointments are requested. Call 1-920-749-1995 for appointment.
For further information, please contact the village hall at 608-862-3240.
MICHELLE C. BREWER, Clerk
Village of Albany
Payment Options
The Village Hall is open to the public; however, please do not enter if you are sick.
Option 1: In person at the Village Hall from 8am – 4pm.
Option 2: Drop off in our secure drop-box, located in the Village Hall parking lot near our front entrance. We will mail a receipt upon request.
Option 3: Mail your payment to the Village Hall – 206 North Water Street, Albany WI 53502. We will mail a receipt upon request.
Option 4: Direct Payment through the Village of Albany Utility Department. Reach out to the Clerk’s office and get set up; there’s no fees for this option.
**NEW** Option 5: HeyGov, our new portal to view your account and pay online at https://app.heygov.com/albanywi.org/quick-pay
Option 6: By Credit/Debit Card – www.allpaid.com; on the right hand side under Make a Payment enter the following code that matches the type of payment you are trying to complete: 7752 (Water/Sewer) ~ 7753 (Fines/Forfeitures) ~ 7754 (Misc) ~ 7751 (Taxes). This payment method will include a 3% ($3 minimum) administrative fee of the amount paid and a receipt will be generated for you at the time of payment. Please click Online Payment Instructions if need help with the payment screens.
Dog License
To obtain your 2024 dog license, you can apply in person, drop-box or email. If your dog has updated rabies information, please provide a copy of that information as well as the fee, which is $5 spayed/neutered and $10 unaltered. If you chose to provide information via email, we will let you know your fee and once that is received, you will be mailed your new dog license.
Notice: Change of Village Hall Office Hours
Effective March 13, 2024 – The Village Hall Clerk’s office will be CLOSED to the public on Wednesday’s until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Just a reminder that payments can be left in the gray drop box next to the Village Hall front door and online at www.allpaid.com (use PLC #7752 for utility bills; #7754 for fines & forfeitures; and #7754 for miscellaneous payments). The office will be open to the public on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:00am-4:00pm. Thank you!!
CHANGE: Water/Sewer Billing
The Village has been approved to move from quarterly billing to monthly billing. The effective start date will be October 1, 2023. This means your 3rd quarter bill (July, August, September usage) will be mailed out on October 1, 2023 and due on the 20th. This also means that the second “late” notice that has been sent out in the past will be eliminated in order to help the effectiveness of our billing period. Therefore, you will receive the original bill at the first of each month and if the bill has not been paid by the 20th, you will automatically receive a disconnection notice…so PLEASE be aware that you will no longer receive a late notice as a reminder you have a bill still due.
The monthly bills will then begin on November 1st and each month thereafter and will be due on the 20th of each month. If you receive a disconnection notice and you have not made arrangements for payment, your service will be disconnected. In order to restore service, you will need to make full payment, plus the re-connection fee. Schedule No. Mg-1, Amendment No. 35 is available for viewing at the Village Hall.
Please be patient as we navigate these changes.
Thank you for your cooperation!!
Village Hall Closed to the Public
VILLAGE HALL CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
To help slow the spread of Covid-19 & protect our staff and you, the village is strongly encouraging all business to be completed via phone/email at this time.
Village Hall Staff is available by phone/email during normal business hours:
Monday – Friday
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Village Hall – 608-862-3240
Public Works – 608-862-3246 or 608-558-2129
Police – 608-862-3255 or 911 emergency
Court Clerk – 608-862-0101
Staff will not be available on Thursday, December 24th and Friday, December 25th. We wish everyone a safe, healthy and happy Holiday!!!
Drop Box
Payments and other items can be dropped off in our secure drop-box located by our front entrance.
Online Payments
Online Payments can be made at www.govpaynow.com, use the following Pay Location Code (PLC) numbers:
Utility Payments – 7752
Fine Payments – 7753
Tax Payments – 7751
Miscellaneous — 7754
For 2020 Tax and Dog Payment information, please visit https://www.albanywi.org/tax-information/
ATV/UTVs on Village of Albany Streets
Please read the ATV/UTV ordinace 02-20 at https://www.albanywi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ord02-20-ATV-UTV.pdf and follow all guidelines.
2020 CENSUS
WE ALL COUNT!!!
I count. You count. Grandparents count. Newborns count. Everyone you’ve seen today counts!
If you’ve lived in the country only a few weeks or for your entire life, YOU COUNT!
If you live alone, with family, with friends, or with people you don’t know all that well, YOU ALL COUNT!
If you haven’t completed your 2020 Census yet, don’t worry, you still have time to respond and help make sure that our community counts when it comes to funding for vital servics. Programs like Medicare Part B, special education, school lunch programs, supplemental nutrition assistance programs, and many more receive funding due to census responses. Set aside 10 minutes today to respond either online or by phone and take PRIDE in knowing you did your prat to make our future brighter! Visit 2020census.gov to learn about why the census matters so much to all of us!
Snow Parking Reminder
§ 260-18. Parking during snow emergencies.
A. Hours.
(1) After a snowfall of more than one inch, no parking shall be permitted from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. on the following streets:
| Name of Street | Location |
| Main Street | From Sugar River Bridge to Mechanic Street |
| Milwaukee Street | Between Water Street and Mechanic Street |
| Oak Street | Entire Length |
| Water Street | From Milwaukee Street to the village storage shed (pumphouse #1) |
(2) If snow removal is necessary from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. on such streets, the Chief of Police may require vehicles parked thereon to be moved as needed to permit snow removal.
B. Parking is prohibited on all other village streets for 24 hours after snowfall of one inch or until snow removal is completed.
C. Any vehicle parked in violation of this section may be towed away at the direction of the Chief of Police. The towing and storage, if required, shall be charged to the owner of the vehicle.
PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE TO ALL CUSTOMERS OF THE
ALBANY MUNICIPAL WATER AND SEWER UTILITY
The Albany Municipal Water and Sewer Utility has filed an application with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to increase water rates. The increase is necessary due to a 79.87 percent increase in gross plant investment and a 60.77 percent increase in operating expenses since the last water rate case was completed in 2015.
The total increase in water revenues requested is $110,021 which will result in an estimated overall rate increase of 45.00 percent over the water utility’s present revenues. If the request is granted, the water bill for an average residential customer with a ⅝-inch or ¾-inch meter who uses 9,000 gallons of water per quarter will increase from $75.23 to $99.48, or 32.23% (not including the public fire protection (PFP) charge), and will increase from $75.23 to $130.23, or 73.11% (including the direct PFP charge).
Currently, the Village of Albany collects a municipal PFP charge (100 percent of the total PFP cost) from property taxes and pays this charge to the water utility. The Village of Albany recently approved changing the method of recovering the PFP charge from a 100% municipal PFP charge to a combination of a municipal charge and a direct charge, which is collected directly from Utility customers. Therefore, the Utility has requested $100,000, or 61.6 percent, as a municipal charge, and the remaining $62,391, or 38.4 percent, as a direct charge on the customer’s water bill.
A telephonic public hearing on the application has been scheduled for Thursday, May 30, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room, Albany Village Hall, 206 North Water Street, Albany, Wisconsin. Scheduling questions regarding this hearing may be directed to the PSCW at (608) 266-3766.
A person may testify in this proceeding without becoming a party and without attorney representation. A person may submit this testimony in only one of the following ways:
· Web Comment. Go to the Commission’s web site at http://psc.wi.gov, click on “File a Comment”. On the next page select the “File a comment” link that appears for docket number 40-WR-102. Web comments shall be received no later than the day before the hearing.
· Oral Comment. Spoken testimony at the public session.
· Written Comment. Instead of speaking at the hearing, write out a comment and submit it at the public session.
· Mail Comment. All comments submitted by U.S. Mail shall be received no later than the day before the hearing and shall be addressed to: Attn: Docket 40-WR-102 Comments, Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 7854, Madison, WI 53707-7854.
The PSCW intends to webcast this hearing live on the PSCW’s web site at http://psc.wi.gov under the “PSC Live Broadcast” button.
All documents in this docket are filed on the Commission’s Electronic Records Filing (ERF) system. To view these documents: (1) go to the Commission’s E-Services Portal at http://apps.psc.wi.gov, (2) enter “40-WR-102” in the box labeled “Quick Single Docket Search,” and (3) select “Documents”.
If you have any questions, please contact the Albany Municipal Water and Sewer Utility at (608) 862-3240.