The Cottage Grove Village Board has approved its 2023 budget, laying out an increase in levied taxes and committing most of ARPA funding.
With the passage of the budget, the village chose to spend $647,500, most of its federal COVID-19 relief funding, on an assortment of projects that otherwise would not see funding next year.
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