The City of Stanley has two new mill rates, divided between Chippewa and Clark County.
“Adopt resolution 2025-009, a resolution to set the 2025 mill rate for the City of Stanley in Chippewa County,” President Pro Tempore Mark Fitzsimmons said.
“Which has gone down a little bit,” Alderperson Laurie Foster remarked, the rate of $12.38 mills a $1.13 decrease as compared with the year previous.
Approved by resolution Monday, Dec. 1, the council moved to adopt the 2025 mill rate for the City of Stanley in Chippewa County and raising $771,142.81, the figure based on an overall assessed valuation of $187,499,100 in property.
Approved in turn with motion by Alderperson Laurie Foster seconded by Alderperson Ben Wald, the mill rate for Stanley in Chippewa County was set.
Next was the mill rate for Stanley in Clark County.
“Adopt resolution 2025-010, a resolution to set the mill rate for the City of Stanley in Clark County,” Fitzsimmons said.
“So moved,” Foster said, seconded by Wald. The mill rate for Stanley in Clark County set at $15.95 mills represents a $1.76 decrease from the year previous, and will raise $70,121 off an overall assessed valuation of $19,936,400.
Also approved Monday, Dec. 1 was a resolution regarding K9 Officer Trey’s retirement. With motion by Foster seconded by Alderperson Theresa Metzger, the sale of K9 Trey to Officer Lewien for $1 was approved. K9 Trey will thus live out his retirement with Officer Lewien after being paired together since arriving in town.
Stanley Police Chief Lance Weiland and Officer Tyler Lewien each gave remarks of their own.
“Thank you guys for a quick moment of your time,” Weiland told the council. “Tyler didn’t really want to make a big deal about this. I thought it was fitting to recognize him and his work, K9 Trey’s work with the canine unit. It’s kind of crazy to think back in 2017 we started this project, not really having a road map as to how it was going to look or what it was going to look like, or how we were going to do it. But a lot of homework and it was approved by the council and somehow, some way we came up with being able to raise $80,000 to do this all on our own,” he said of the city.
“One of the things I remember most vividly is I think it might have been the mayor asking me, ‘so ok, what if we don’t raise $80,000, what ifwe can only raise $40,000?’ And I’m like failure is not an option. We have to do it. Thankfully we had a ton of supporters and I think it was about a year to raise $80,000 and buy the equipment, put it in the squad, the dog and all the training...It’s been some bumps along the way but overall I think it was a great program. Tyler did a great job. It took a ton of dedication and a ton of hard work and commitment.” With ongoing long term training K9 Trey had done work outside Stanley as well, traveling to Eau Claire and Clark County.
“I just want to say thank you to all the council members for your support,” he said of the K9 program. “Right now we’re not in a position to pursue another dog but hopefully at some point down the road we can do that.”
Lewien shared thoughts of his own on the canine program.
“I just want to thank the mayor and city council members past and present. I want to thank Chief Weiland and the police department for all the work they put in to make this program possible. Like you said the K9 was a tool that was used all over the place. I’d like to thank the community and surrounding communities for their support. I think it was a great tool and I hope to see the future of it still exist.”
“It was obviously a great program,” Fitzsimmons said, “because the community supported it.”
“It cleaned up a lot of stuff,” Foster said.