PADDOCK LAKE — After receiving requests for steep boosts in the costs of both Sheriff’s Department and fire coverage for the community, the Village Board Wednesday approved more modest increases.

The village does not have its own fire or police departments, instead contracting with the Kenosha County Sheriffs Department for police patrols and with the Salem Fire Department for fire and rescue coverage.

This year, according to Administrator John Burg, both departments came to budget negotiations looking for substantial increases in payment.

The Sheriff’s Department was seeking to offset high fuel costs that strained the department’s budget over the past year.

For 2008, the village paid the Sheriff’s Department $255,135 for service that includes a squad car patrolling the village for two eight-hour shifts each day.

“They first started out at $42,000,” Burg said of the sheriff’s initial budget increase request. In initial negotiations, the department came down to an $18,000 increase, and finally in negotiations with the village’s police and fire committee, agreed to a standard 2 percent increase plus a $5,000 lump sum payment.

The total Sheriff’s Department contract, approved by the Village Board, will pay the department $255,135 for patrol service for 2009.

Also, the board approved a $151,471 budget for fire services for 2009, paid to the Salem Fire Department. That is a $10,000 increase over 2008.

Salem had been seeking a sharper increase, one that would have brought Paddock Lake’s per-capita costs for fire coverage in line with what Salem residents pay. Village officials were receptive to the idea, but worried that the $55,000 additional cost of bringing the contract to parity for 2009 would have been too sharp an increase for one year.

Instead, the village agreed to a $10,000 increase. The idea, Burg said, is to bring the village to parity with Salem over five years. However, Burg said, the five-year phase-in is only a concept rather than a contractual agreement, and each year’s payment will have to be negotiated by the board.

In other business, the board voted to borrow $1.25 million through a bond issue to fund the first stages of a sewer and wastewater treatment plant improvement project. The previously approved project will ultimately be funded through increases in village residents’ sewer and water utility fees.

The bonds are expected to be sold in January, with an anticipated interest rate between 4 and 5 percent.