Look what city councils and village boards in McHenry County have asked to extract from your pocketbook for the last three years:
| Cities and Villages | ||||||
| Algonquin | $4,176,673 | $4,064,312 | -2.7% | McH Co only | $4,080,860 | 0.4% |
| Barrington Hills | $1,619,568 | $1,488,581 | -8.1% | McH Co only | $1,400,097 | -5.9% |
| Bull Valley | $1,488,581 | $383,774 | -74.2% | $383,774 | 0.0% | |
| Cary | $2,510,592 | $2,510,606 | 0.0% | $2,510,614 | 0.0% | |
| Crystal Lake | $3,730,643 | $3,738,814 | 0.2% | $4,066,255 | 8.8% | |
| Crystal Lake Fire | $8,149,034 | $8,140,889 | -0.1% | $8,415,849 | 3.4% | |
| Fox River Grove | $828,084 | $846,007 | 2.2% | McH Co only | $833,315 | -1.5% |
| Fox Lake | $158,702 | $161,982 | 2.1% | McH Co only | $165,027 | 1.9% |
| Fox Lake Fire | $70,085 | $0 | -100.0% | McH Co only | $91,090 | #DIV/0! |
| Greenwood | $0 | $0 | #DIV/0! | $0 | #DIV/0! | |
| Harvard | $2,921,877 | $2,527,828 | -13.5% | $3,126,164 | 23.7% | |
| Hebron | $178,837 | $186,885 | 4.5% | $188,517 | 0.9% | |
| Holiday Hills | $31,350 | $31,350 | 0.0% | $31,350 | 0.0% | |
| Huntley | $2,545,061 | $2,901,842 | 14.0% | McH Co only | $3,011,535 | 3.8% |
| Island Lake | $718,224 | $668,147 | -7.0% | McH Co only | $654,648 | -2.0% |
| Johnsburg | $859,172 | $859,176 | 0.0% | $866,428 | 0.8% | |
| Lake in the Hills | $5,481,691 | $5,481,688 | 0.0% | $5,481,723 | 0.0% | |
| Lakemoor | $232,691 | $246,737 | 6.0% | $247,511 | 0.3% | |
| Lakewood | $1,723,236 | $1,762,796 | 2.3% | $1,586,515 | -10.0% | |
| Marengo | $1,560,036 | $1,572,935 | 0.8% | $1,555,203 | -1.1% | |
| McCullum Lake | $132,321 | $130,806 | -1.1% | $132,069 | 1.0% | |
| McHenry | $4,761,650 | $4,618,817 | -3.0% | $4,618,800 | 0.0% | |
| Oakwood Hills | $289,001 | $293,501 | 1.6% | $296,500 | 1.0% | |
| Port Barrington | $88,934 | $89,499 | 0.6% | McH Co only | -100.0% | |
| Prairie Grove | $360,002 | $360,002 | 0.0% | $367,201 | 2.0% | |
| Richmond | $468,686 | $475,009 | 1.3% | $479,087 | 0.9% | |
| Ringwood | $81,000 | $83,000 | 2.5% | $86,000 | 3.6% | |
| Spring Grove | $669,533 | $671,554 | 0.3% | $688,985 | 2.6% | |
| Trout Valley | $0 | $0 | #DIV/0! | $0 | #DIV/0! | |
| Union | $88,626 | $89,353 | 0.8% | $90,003 | 0.7% | |
| Wonder Lake | $408,999 | $413,001 | 1.0% | $412,502 | -0.1% | |
| Woodstock | $9,183,026 | $8,315,361 | -9.4% | $8,364,404 | 0.6% |
The largest cut was 10%, from the Village of Lakewood. Half was a permanent cut, have was an abatement, which can be reinstated.
Great work President McLaughlin of Barrington Hills.
Your pension expertise and management of budgets is paying huge dividends for VBH residents.
While the most qualified for state senate, this Barrington Hills resident is pleased status quo, overly financed McChonchie defeated you, barely, in prior election.
Barrington Hills residents are the beneficiaries of Proft’s largesse to McChonchie and overall voter ignorance which kept you here in Barrington Hills.
Don’t forget that the larger ones anyway receive a great deal of sales tax money and the only ones not getting the message are the school districts
Barrington Hills has no sales tax because no business.
President McLaughlin since elected has reduce Village expenditures by more tha 20 percent.
He could have done more by bonding over pension obligation when interest rates were at historic level lows but unfortunately his board could not pull the trigger on this obvious strategy.
Look at other fees and taxes as well.
I love it when they preach fiscal responsibility on the levy and raise sales tax, gas, electric, fees, etc.
Let’s just overlook that huh?
It’s time to move out of this minority catering state that drives out productive people and imports welfarites from every single state bordering Ill., they come because the benefits are better.
Sometimes marginally better (WI, IA); sometimes significantly better (IN, MO, KY, MO)
Don’t be mislead, Trout Valley still has a association that collects to pay the bills.