The Cost of Replacing the Brick Crosswalks Along Route 14

The Lottery might help taxpayers recoup the $16,000 spent on each TIF monument...when the budget is passed and advertising money is again available.

Advertising by the Lottery might help taxpayers recoup the $16,000 spent on each TIF monument.

A pretty long time ago I saw workers replacing brick crosswalks along the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District with asphalt.

How does one know where the TIF Districts starts and stops?

Just look for the pillars.

Two on one end in front of 5th Third Bank and Pizza Hut.

Two on the other end near the Crystal Lake Motel and Kwik Kopy.

Cost of $16,000 each.

$64,000 total.

Some seems to have been done at night, probably to inconvenience local drivers the least.

Stopping to talk to the workmen, I discovered they did not know about Tax Increment Financing Districts are.

Stopping to talk to the workmen, I discovered they did not know about Tax Increment Financing Districts are.

Night work prohibited local taxpayers from seeing the admission of a design mistake.

I guess I should say “another design mistake,” because all of the decorative lights had to be exchanged for ones that would not fall down.

In any event, I asked the City of Crystal Lake how much it cost to replace the bricks with asphalt.

Here’s the answer:

The brick crosswalks were a

The brick crosswalks were a $23,523.60 mistake.


Long-time readers know that I am not a fan of TIF Districts.

The reasons include their causing taxes of everyone outside of the TIF District to increase and the fact that hardly anyone can figure that out.

The second reason is that it provides a slush fund for municipal officials.

How many signs have been purchased for the failed restaurants across from 1776, for example?


Comments

The Cost of Replacing the Brick Crosswalks Along Route 14 — 4 Comments

  1. I want everyone involved in this absolute rape of the taxpayers to resign.

    This was possibly the worst thing I have seen in this county in all the years I have been here. (And that is saying quite a lot.)

    Who makes decisions like this?

    Are we governed by complete nitwits and morons?

  2. The TIF details were approved by the Crystal Lake City Council.

  3. yeah goes right along with the screw-up on the light poles they put up then had to re-do as well more ChaChing waste for us the Tax Payer, but you think any of these citizens will be get off their duffs and Vote this waste out of our towns, villages, etc..

    NOT

    they apparently love paying…. for waste is all I can gather over the years… they have been told and it pointed out to them they continue to just go along paying…

    they .. love being pickpocketed.. like the 14 million dollar gravel pit they keep throwing $$ into…

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