Coming the same day as McHenry County Republican Central Committeeman Mike Tryon’s letter endorsing him, Vice Chairman Mark Daniel wrote GOP Precinct Committeemen on behalf of his slate:
- Mark Daniels for Chairman
- John Jung for Vice Chairman
- Carolyn Schofield for Secretary
- Glenda Miller for Treasurer
The Nunda Township Republican Central Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party reached out to elected Precinct Committeemen in a letter that arrived Wednesday, a week before the County Convention.
Daniel seeks to move up to the chairmanship, inserting McHenry County Board member John Jung in his place as Vice Chairman, Board member Carolyn Schofield as Party Secretary and move GOP County Treasurer candidate Glenda Miller from Secretary to Treasurer.
You can see it below:
Mark Daniel wrote this letter seeking support for his candidacy for Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Central Committee.
Resumes of Mark Daniel and John Jung
Resumes of Carolyn Schofield and Glenda Miller
Activist Shareholder point of view: reduce property tax burden on homeowners (shareholders), and devise ways to protect taxpaying residents from effects of insider favoritism.
Possible solution:
1. Prop 13 in California has kept property taxes in that state below 1% of property value, whereby McHenry County is stated as median 2.09%. (My home in Seneca Township is taxed at over 3.28%).
Zillow.com posted an article citing the top national property tax rates as percent of property value and number 3 on their list was Kendall County, IL (3.57%). I can attest to my own tax rate being greater than 3.28%, so McHenry County is not far behind Kendall.
Sources: http://www.taxrates.org/illinois/mchenry_county_property_tax
http://www.zillow.com/blog/highest-and-lowest-property-taxes-149303/
What is my point?
Republicans let this happen to us on their watch. I have not seen any legislation proposals to save money or at least stop the bleeding for property taxpayers, a la California Prop 13. I HAVE seen a Republican-backed proposal enabling more property tax dollars to be extracted to support a project (Conservation District) presumably favorable to the insider legislators who backed it.
New type of candidate is needed: a Shareholder Activist. Only agenda: vote no to spending, yes to saving, and stand against insider favoritism. At least until the crisis mitigates (the crisis being: our property values are still plummeting, in inverse correlation to rising property tax percentage rates).
What is my point?
Republicans let this happen to us on their watch.
I have not seen any legislation proposals to save money or at least stop the bleeding for property taxpayers, a la California Prop 13.
I HAVE seen a Republican-backed proposal enabling more property tax dollars to be extracted to support a project (Conservation District) presumably favorable to the insider legislators who backed it.
New type of candidate is needed: a Shareholder Activist.
Only agenda: vote no to spending, yes to saving, and stand against insider favoritism.
At least until the crisis mitigates (the crisis being: our property values are still plummeting, in inverse correlation to rising property tax percentage rates).
Activist Shareholder point of view: reduce property tax burden on homeowners (shareholders), and devise ways to protect taxpaying residents from effects of insider favoritism.
Possible solution:
1. Prop 13 in California has kept property taxes in that state below 1% of property value, whereby McHenry County is stated as median 2.09%. (My home in Seneca Township is taxed at over 3.28%).
Zillow.com posted an article citing the top national property tax rates as percent of property value and number 3 on their list was Kendall County, IL (3.57%). I can attest to my own tax rate being greater than 3.28%, so McHenry County is not far behind Kendall.
Sources: http://www.taxrates.org/illinois/mchenry_county_property_tax
http://www.zillow.com/blog/highest-and-lowest-property-taxes-149303/
Susan should appeal her real estate assessment.
@cal, How does that stop the spending?
The County froze taxes on existing property two years in a row.
Did anyone notice?
The whispers in the County Building: don’t count on a third year…
The assessment are only a portion of the solution.
@Susan has it right: We have to stop the spending.
But…
In McHenry County 65-70% of property taxes are levied by government run schools, not legislative government ie State, County, Township or Municipal.
Are the residents ready to push back on the schools?
But do we really need more MCCD land, more bike paths, a CFI that has no support other than from government, more units of local government, more brand new city halls (CL, Algon, Huntley, Mch, FRG, to name a few), bigger football stadiums, more parks, on and on.
How about any unit of government slashing their levy by 15%. Not in my lifetime.
The reason to cite property tax as a percentage of property value is that no matter the assessment, ‘property tax as a percentage of home value’ can be used in apples-to-apples comparisons.
Such as, comparing to other States in America.
And, it is part of census data so there are stats available for citation.
But appealing assessments means beggar-my-neighbor, right?
Any dollar I save myself means another dollar out of some other poor citizen’s pocket.
I would rather stand with my neighbors to fight back against what I consider egregious spending by rulers.
What might we do?
Perhaps we might pressure our rulers to start studying what other states do.
Our standard of living, educational results, or any other measurement metric does not seem 300% better than another state in America—yet our property taxes are 300% higher than national average.
We might look into privatization of schools, or the prison.
We might try to launch an Illinois version of Prop 13, which has worked wonderfully for California.
Susan is spot on.
Taxation of real estate in the State of Illinois is determined by subjective means and shifts the burden on the property owner to prove the confiscators wrong.
When the property owner is successful, the rest of us pay more.
So Pathetique ………..
Couldn’t Tryon come up w/ somebody better????
Diversity, eh?
How about decent people filling these offices …that would be quite a change!
Dave stieper and Susan run for county board, please.
Dave you should have won this past election.
We need more like you on the board.
Yes, we need to stop the schools spending.
That would entail eliminating the union.
That would save the taxpayers tons of money.
Mike Madigan has a practice built around tax appeals.
This is one indication in one small arena of politics of why there is no motive to change business as usual in this state.
It will take great effort along specific strategic lines to take back the smallest rights of the average citizen.
Do The People who are our neighbors have the motivation, leadership and fortitude to manage change?
Jack Franks keeps getting elected…
Republicans are at war with other Republicans to the point where civility is relegated to the realm of fantasy even on this blog….
School boards routinely are controlled by unions for lack of interest by the average citizen…
God bless the fighters and the interest in change but until the smallest changes are made by the 20% who vote and care locally what is the point of wishing for the state to change?
In my opinion, we need a candidate to run on the Activist Shareholder platform: every action and vote run through the decisionmaking filter of: ‘no to spending as much, yes to cost cutting measures, and standing against insider favoritism’.
Advantage of such a platform is that it scrubs personality and emotion from the decisionmaking process.
Such a candidate could avoid nonproductive time-wasting engendered by political process, and systematically explore concrete practical solutions to this crisis.
Ms. Uppity
Thank you for the encouragement but the voters settled on Robert “Bob” Nowak who said at the Daley Herald interview that he has never voted “no” on a matter before the Board and Andrew Gasser who stated on Face Book that if every government body just cut its budget by 1% the State would be in good shape.
I was looking to cut County expenditures over a 4 year period by at least 25 Million, but this would require redefining the role of County government and making difficult choices which voters and this Board are not prepared to do.
This would require shelving the political slogans and team politics for detailed plan of action.
It is business as usual, “The Red Team” v. “The Blue Team” and the casualty are the tax payers of the County.
David, it is incredibly unflattering for a losing candidate to talk trash about the people who beat him, especially when that politician ran as half-hearted of a campaign as you did.
If you really believed that you were to be the savior of county government, maybe you should have done a little more than sending out two laughably amateurish mailers.
markmcguire: Mr. Stieper, unlike yourself, attaches his name to his opinions.
What do you fear?
I believe his comments are constructive.
He did offer in one of his “amateurish” mailers that “My focus will be on returning responsible policies to McHenry County Government taking personalities and team politics out of the equation.
I will work to build coalitions around common sense solutions which best serve the Taxpayers.”
Mr. Stieper entered the race in District 1 a scant 90 days before the election.
The fact that he garnered 1799 votes is evidence that his message was heard, just not enough to prevail.
I might add that he is the only candidate of the three who owns property in McHenry County and pays taxes in the County, to the extent of over $20,000 annually.
He is also the only one of the three that has full-time job responsibilities as a practicing Attorney.
Obviously, the voters chose others to run in the general election.
His message is a heads up to the other two winning candidates to study more and stop the “team” politics in the hope that the Board will be open to productive coalitions that put the interests of the taxpayers in front of the interests of the “teams”.
Nothing good will come out of County Government if this admonition is ignored.
I will be voting as a Precinct Committeeman, newly elected as winner in a contested race.
Where will you be, markmcquire?
Bloviating from the sidelines?
How did this thread become focused on David Steiper’s losing yet another election?
Clearly, someone was just looking for a fight, looking for someone to blame.
Sometimes you have no one to blame other than yourself.
You can have all the right ideas, but if you are a jerk to other people, you won’t get anywhere in politics.
Newcomer: Should someone just go away quietly after losing an election?
We can always learn from anyone who took the time and effort to run for office.
I personally commend all who do so and would thank them, regardless of outcome.
And why do you resort to name calling?
I would guess you are another who has never stepped up to the plate and run for public office.
Easy for you to criticize.