CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE


Location:

City Hall, Room 115

Contact:

Phone: (906) 632-5721

Personnel:

John Boger, Finance Director/City Treasurer 632-5726

Wilma Rushford, Deputy Treasurer 632-5721

Debbie Wallace, Cashier 632-5723
 

Visit this Office If:

  • You need to make payments to the city.
  • You need to ask questions about a city bill.

Tasks:

The primary tasks of the Treasurer's Office are as follows:

  • Collect payments and issue receipts for water bills, taxes, special assessments, rentals, licensing fees, permit fees, parking violations and permits, trailer park fees, ambulance fees, and all other payments to the city.
  • Record payments in appropriate customer accounts, tax roll accounts, and various municipal accounts.
  • Balance cash, receipts, and total cash register.
  • Count cash and prepare bank deposits daily. Reconcile reports.

Other tasks of the office include:

  • Ordering tax rolls and tax notices yearly.
  • Calculate interest on all unpaid July taxes starting August 1 until the end of the collection period (February 28).
  • Turn all unpaid real estate taxes over to county treasurer on March 1st of each year.
  • Prepare the tax payment schedule to school, city, and county offices for processing.
  • Calculate interest on delinquent personal property taxes and bill monthly.
  • Bill special assessments monthly.
  • Settle taxes with Chippewa County Annually.