It was last April when I noticed that the decorative street lights financed by the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing.
Look at the ones you see in the photo below, taken on a good day in November, 2011.
Then compare them with the ones you see below, not to mention the pole with no light on it.
So, the street lights all of us in McHenry County paid for (that’s the way TIF Districts work; everyone outside the TIF District picks up the cost of the tax dollars diverted into the area in question) last about a year and a half.
Now, the Crystal Lake Police Department has issued the following warning:
Decorative Street Light Repairs in Virginia Street Corridor Starting Monday November 4
The City’s street light maintenance contractor will be reinstalling the decorative street light arm assemblies within the Virginia Street Corridor (US 14 from Carpenter Street to Coventry Lane) starting Monday November 4.
Work will be ongoing for 2-3 weeks, pending weather.
Please expect intermittent lane closures from 7 am to 4 pm daily.
The other way you can tell where the TIF District starts and ends is to look for the stone monuments.
And they originally took them down because…?
The cameras and microphones weren’t working properly?