The days of a separate Highway Department tax district are ending because of the passage of a referendum in the Northwest suburbs yesterday.
Here is what the Daily Herald wrote:
Elk Grove Township Voters Merge Road District with Township
The days of a separate Highway Department tax district are ending because of the passage of a referendum in the Northwest suburbs yesterday.
Here is what the Daily Herald wrote:
$120,000 to plow snow and pick up sticks on six miles of road.
Townships the gift that keeps on taking.
People are finally amending to the township rip off.
Not amending, awakening.
Consolidation makes sense in a bankrupt, overtaxing state.
Sweet! Let’s start doing that here.
It was a question before the Algonquin Township Board a year ago, and guess who didn’t support it.
Dave Chapman the gentleman in the preceding article.
This seems to be where most of the malfeasance lies.
Is a elected Highway Commissioner position compared to hiring a person to run the highway dept any different than a elected coroner or hiring a person to run that department?
There is value and drawbacks to both types of organizations.
Nob, alias Bob Miller, go blow.