Looking at the financial shape of townships in McHenry County, a Friend of McHenry County Blog found the following Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund information filed with the State Comptroller for 2017 (for Algonquin, Chemung, Dorr, Grafton, McHenry, Nunda, Riley and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Dunham Township
I was comparing liabilities to assets for township governments in McHenry County using the State Comptroller’s local government information. The reason is that some opponents of allowing voters to abolish township government by referendum say that county government would have … Continue reading
The Illinois State Comptroller has a data base contacting information about tax districts throughout Illinois. Looking at 2017 data from those for the seventeen townships in McHenry County, one finds the number of employees running from a low of 2 … Continue reading
In calculating the median average assessment and margins of error, the rules say one must have at least 25 “arms length” sales. There are six townships not meeting that level of real estate sales activity. When combined, the smaller townships’ … Continue reading
The top four voter getters in the race for Dunham Township Trustee follow: David Binz – 200 Cory Scott – 168 Ruth Coffey – 158 Dennis Bischke – 146 Also running was Kevin Schultz, who received 136 votes. … Continue reading
A press release from the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department: Sheriff’s Office Investigates Fatal Traffic Crash A 22-year-old male was pronounced dead and a 23-year-old female was in critical condition following a traffic crash involving a pickup truck and passenger car in … Continue reading
A friend of McHenry County Blog ran these figures on McHenry County Townships: Comparison of McHenry Township Finances Township Fund Balance to Revenue Per Capita Expenditures Per Household Expenditures Alden 124.7% 266 747 Algonquin 72.8% 44 124 Burton 176.7% 59 … Continue reading
Here is what is happening to taxpayers as a whole: Township Inc/Decrease 2015-2014 in Total Tax Inc/Decrease 2014-2013 in Total Tax HARTLAND $95.24 ($518.43) ALDEN $1,484.21 ($2,923.60) DUNHAM $877.76 ($10,905.30) HEBRON $4,219.09 ($5,118.21) RILEY ($2,678.90) ($1,172.12) SENECA ($6,000.31) ($4,000.73) GRAFTON … Continue reading
After Algonquin Township Road Commissioner finished his comments, Preston Rae, the Supervisor of the most sparsely-populated township in McHenry County spoke. “No mater who we consolidate with, we lose our representation.” The Alden Township man told of how people communicated … Continue reading
Commenter Susan has done the math on a couple of the townships which consolidation proponents suggest should be merged. Her analysis is below: Am I missing something, or is the voter’s decision made by simply looking at the comparative tax … Continue reading
In an attempt to get people thinking about the proposal to combine townships, look at the number of miles of road each Township Road Commissioner maintains: In addition, Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller writes that he offers assistance to … Continue reading
Back in the 1970’s, Algonquin Township Assessor Forrest Hare computerized his office, probably the first to do so in the State of Illinois. He also took an interest in how assessment could be made more accurate. Hare looked at measures … Continue reading
Melissa Denker, who lives in Dunham Township, was out looking for the tornado last night and she found it. First, she took the photo below of a big black cloud: The second photo shows the funnel cloud: Last night when … Continue reading
With 35 of 73 precincts reporting, incumbent eight-term Democratic Party State Rep. Jack Franks is leading his Republican challenger by 59% to 41%. In 2010, John O’Neill garnered 36.08% of the vote against Franks. Remember that these are only the votes … Continue reading
Townships are a much maligned form of local government. Today we show you how much McHenry County’s seventeen townships will extract from pocketbooks this year compared to last year. Extensions are the amount of taxes which are billed. The tax … Continue reading
Let’s go through the townships in alphabetical order to see how the Real Estate Tax cap affects how much money they can collect. This information, as with previous articles about the Tax Cap, comes from the McHenry County Clerk’s web … Continue reading
Dunham Township Republican Precinct Committeeman Melissa Denker is holding a series seminars on state and local governments during July. You can see the details below: The topics and dates follow: July 9th – Townships & Party Positions July 16th – … Continue reading
The results for the $1 million were not even close in Dunham Township. 63% of the electorate voted to allow the Road District to borrow money to fix local roads. … Continue reading
With the only tax referendum on the ballot, I guess it would be logical for there to be a large voter turnout in Dunham Township. As of 1:30, 175 people had voted. Two years ago, a total of 334 voted. … Continue reading
Melissa Denker is running for Precinct Committeeman in Dunham Township. That there is a candidate is big news in and of itself. There’s not even a appointed committeeman now. And it’s not a small precinct. 259 voted in the Republican … Continue reading