Here are the comparisons for taxes collected in 2016, 2017 and 2018 for McHenry County’s seventeen townships.
In all, the townships cut the amount being taken out of our checkbooks by 3%.
Each township has the cost of highway departments and the rest of township government reported separately.
You can see the comparison of how well townships did to other types of tax districts here.
| Tax District | 2015 Extension | 2016 Extension | % Change | 2017 Extension | % Change |
| Townships | ||||||
| Alden Town | $115,699 | $115,698 | 0.0% | $115,699 | 0.0% | |
| Alden Road | $172,564 | $175,431 | 1.7% | $179,667 | 2.4% | |
| Algonquin Town | $1,800,417 | $1,640,025 | -8.9% | $1,558,040 | -5.0% | |
| Algonquin Road | $4,049,031 | $3,926,154 | -3.0% | $3,729,851 | -5.0% | |
| Bruton Town | $155,643 | $155,643 | 0.0% | $157,978 | 1.5% | |
| Burton Road | $217,577 | $221,928 | 2.0% | $226,367 | 2.0% | |
| Chemung Town | $190,424 | $192,659 | 1.2% | $199,087 | 3.3% | |
| Chemung Road | $532,537 | $546,521 | 2.6% | $556,220 | 1.8% | |
| Coral Town | $110,596 | $88,478 | -20.0% | $110,596 | 25.0% | |
| Coral Road | $303,501 | $303,501 | 0.0% | $303,502 | 0.0% | |
| Dorr Town | $669,630 | $669,002 | -0.1% | $595,001 | -11.1% | |
| Dorr Road | $1,265,130 | $1,265,005 | 0.0% | $1,265,002 | 0.0% | |
| Dunham Town | $144,852 | $145,906 | 0.7% | $149,613 | 2.5% | |
| Dunham Road | $320,078 | $316,596 | -1.1% | $322,912 | 2.0% | |
| Grafton Town | $1,158,962 | $1,048,182 | -9.6% | $948,462 | -9.5% | |
| Grafton Road | $834,728 | $854,461 | 2.4% | $854,455 | 0.0% | |
| Greenwood Town | $458,083 | $458,085 | 0.0% | $450,003 | -1.8% | |
| Greenwood Road | $1,057,180 | $1,057,185 | 0.0% | $1,057,184 | 0.0% | |
| Hartland Town | $167,433 | $166,948 | -0.3% | $166,288 | -0.4% | |
| Hartland Road | $246,927 | $251,906 | 2.0% | $257,197 | 2.1% | |
| Hebron Town | $133,606 | $140,377 | 5.1% | $142,020 | 1.2% | |
| Hebron Road | $228,002 | $231,385 | 1.5% | $233,340 | 0.8% | |
| Marengo Town | $292,834 | $294,885 | 0.7% | $281,585 | -4.5% | |
| Marengo Road | $469,481 | $492,950 | 5.0% | $508,774 | 3.2% | |
| McHenry Town | $1,876,443 | $1,688,801 | -10.0% | $1,418,800 | -16.0% | |
| McHenry Road | $3,328,121 | $3,000,002 | -9.9% | $2,877,509 | -4.1% | |
| Nunda Town | $1,144,307 | $984,619 | -14.0% | $981,986 | -0.3% | |
| Nunda Road | $3,282,575 | $3,165,570 | -3.6% | $3,165,582 | 0.0% | |
| Richmond Town | $277,003 | $277,001 | 0.0% | $277,001 | 0.0% | |
| Richmond Road | $516,783 | $523,228 | 1.2% | $536,938 | 2.6% | |
| Riley Town | $185,952 | $192,278 | 3.4% | $195,092 | 1.5% | |
| Riley Road | $255,510 | $257,660 | 0.8% | $259,822 | 0.8% | |
| Seneca Town | $152,000 | $150,001 | -1.3% | $147,001 | -2.0% | |
| Seneca Road | $286,727 | $289,603 | 1.0% | $292,291 | 0.9% |
If they made cuts, is that an admission that they were wasting money?
How about a refund?
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/05/09/letter-think-more-about-consolidation/ax7q2sm/
“Apparently none of these advocates wishes to see actual cost-benefit studies done, seeing ignorance as a virtue.”
“The “do more with less” crowd fails to recognize eventually you have to do less with less.”
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/05/09/mchenry-county-board-gives-letter-to-rauner-opposing-mcsweeneys-township-consolidation-bill/a986r87/
“McHenry County Board District 6 representative Jim Kearns gave a letter to Rauner’s staff signed by 21 of the board’s 24 members opposing the measure.
“We respectfully request that HB 4637 be permanently put on hold until our county can minimally address the financial burden to McHenry County, its municipalities and, most importantly, the taxpayer, prior to ever passing this legislation,” the letter read.
Kearns said county officials don’t have a map to guide them through consolidation.”
“It’s ironic that then he meets with extremist [Republican Party Chairwoman] Diane Evertsen and by the end of the meeting, at least from the people I spoke with who attended the meeting, leaned toward vetoing it,” McSweeney said.
I wonder why people keep referring to Ms Evertson as extremist when she openly states what is right and lawful that illegal is just that.you can call it whatever you want but in the laws of this land it’s illegal
Townships cut by three percent.
How much did municipalities cut?
Voters need to be educated before any possible referendums.
Elected officials and the media need to get more serious. (Don’t count on McSweeney to add anything useful to the dialogue.)
Be patient.
We’ll get to cities and villages.
The townships should be the first target.
They are useless pension-sh++-holes, and the entity has survived only because of lobby-pigs like TOI.
There day has come!