From the Daily Herald’s Jake Griffin, readers got a summary of the information now being provided by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas on her website.
Taxpayers are provided information about how to track their local government’s debt.
A data base has been created for each tax district.
For those interested in how and how much local schools and other governments are extracting from their pocketbooks, this is an exciting development.
Griffin reports taxpayers can find property tax levies, operating revenue budget amounts, numbers of full-time employees, pension obligations, average salary rate increases and copies of the agencies’ most recent audits.
Time to reverse the 708 Board referendum?