Take a look at what the McHenry County Board will look at when they decide whether to give taxpayers a break next year.
You remember, the break the Board majority did not give in the real estate tax bills we just received.
Approximate 20 Year Effects of Not Taking CPI Increase on Future Levies
The right hand column shows what taxpayers would save each year through 2023 if the McHenry County Board doesn’t squeeze taxpayers for all they can get.
On May 22nd, the County Finance Committee approved this wording for leveling a tax increase for the 2013 Budget:
Consumer Price Index – The County of McHenry is mandated to follow the Illinois Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL) by the State of Illinois.
PTELL allows governing bodies the ability to cover the costs of inflationary increases incurred in their day to day operations by increasing their previous year’s extension by the CPI or 5%, whichever is smallest.
For the fiscal year 2013 budget, in the event that revenue projections should grow less than 2% or show declines (see Revenue Estimation paragraph above), the County Board will allow usage of the CPI to cover only the additional increased costs of
- union/non-union wage adjustments,
- health insurance increases,
- pension increases,
- fuel,
- utilities (electricity, natural gas, water & sewer) and
- all other new costs that have been presented and approved by the County Board (without source of funding stated) since the passage of the fiscal year 2012 budget up to the passage of this budget policy.
Once a balanced budget is presented to the full County Board with a prioritized listing of the supplemental requests, and if the full amount of the CPI was not needed to cover the costs mentioned above, the County Board will bring forth a decision on using the remaining CPI funds available to cover the costs of the recommended supplementals.
Can’t imagine why the song “I’m Just a Girl Caint Say, ‘No’.”
“I’m just a girl who caint say, “No.'”
What percentage of the budget do you think the items listed above comprise?
If you prefer the original, which I remember seeing in Baltimore, Maryland, on the first row of the balcony when I was about 5, the movie version is below:
Can anyone spell “tax hike?”
Houston, we have a problem!
We have too much government!
As more and more ‘social service’ is moved from the private sector to the public sector we are also moving volunteer (unpaid) activity in the private sector to HIGHLY paid activity (oh, yes, you can add the deadwood cost of union overhead also) in the public sector.
We need more citizen activists to run for office but the established parties make this difficult.
Joe Walsh was an anomaly.
Let us pray that Tonya Franklin becomes another one.
Let us pray Mike Tryon comes to his senses and sends out an invite to all committeemen to attend the McHenry GOP meeting this coming Saturday morning!
House prices tanking and my property taxes going up 14% this year.
I guess I missed the bulletin on how to grow money trees in McHenry County!
I will be aggressively pushing all my friends and colleagues to vote ALL incumbents out of office because 1 thing is apparent…they don’t get it!
Public sector union leaders look at budgets and statistics such as these and use them to “negotiate” salary and benefit increases in collective bargaining agreements.
As a high knowledge voter I look at the voting records of incumbents before I vote for a newbie who has no voting record.
Cal does a great job posting some of the McHenry Board votes.
Jim might want to visit this post: http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2011/11/16/who-voted-to-raise-your-county-taxes/
Voting for someone with a track record can be very beneficial if he / she is truly ‘serving’ us.