Susan Handelsman again urges Woodstock residents to contact members of their City Council asking them to reject the new Tax Increment Financing District: 2018 Woodstock TIF 2 Final City Council Action Coming Up Woodstock TIFs are tax hikes. Woodstock property tax rate … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tax Hike
Tax Hike referendums in Hebron Township and the Village of Greenwood were trounced. Here is the Hebron Township question: Shall the extension limitation under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law for Hebron Township, McHenry County, Illinois, be increased from the … Continue reading
A press release from McHenry County Board member John Reinert: Reinert: Alternatives to McHenry High School Board’s Tax Hike Proposal Unexplored CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County Board member John Reinert is urging voters in McHenry High School District 156 to … Continue reading
A press release from Peter Roskam’s campaign: Casten’s tax bill claims rated FALSE by Sun-Times and Politifact Fact-checkers say Casten “falls short in basic math” WHEATON, IL — After months of Sean Casten misleading voters about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, … Continue reading
The City of McHenry’s Parks & Recreation Department has put out the following chart showing what will happen to taxes under various combinations of voter action: … Continue reading
The McHenry District 156 Vote Yes for Lower Taxes and Better Schools committee has a campaign that is a naked attempt to deceive voters into missing out on a really big tax cut in 2020. The District currently levies about … Continue reading
When McHenry’s Chuck Wheeler ran for the County Board four years, he pledged to lower taxes. Now, he is leading the charge against the McHenry High School District’s and City of McHenry’s efforts to hike taxes. His $25 fundraiser is … Continue reading
From McHenry County Board member Chuck Wheeler: Chuck Wheeler on McHenry Referendum Questions First the City of McHenry placed a referendum on the November ballot to fund a $30 million water park and rec center. As if that’s not enough, … Continue reading
Governor Bruce Rauner today amendatorily vetoed Senate Bill 2297 sponsored by State Senator Pam Althoff and State Rep. Steve Reick to allow voters to cut as well as raise taxes. As originally passed, the bill would have authorized putting on … Continue reading
In Sunday’s Northwest Herald, new editor Jon Styf wrote that the paper was “working on getting more local content into the back pages.” Boy, did he succeed on Tuesday. The last page of the paper had a legal notice in … Continue reading
The following tax hike referendum is the only one on the ballot this spring: Harvard Republican Precinct Committeeman William Matteson had the audacity to recommend that people vote against the proposal in his precinct letter. As he put it in … Continue reading
A press release from Jim Tobin’s Taxpayers United of America: TUA Exposes Two McHenry Tax Villains McHENRY COUNTY—Taxpayers United of America today named McHenry County Board members Michele Aavang and Larry Smith “Taxpayer Enemies,” and asked their constituents to make an … Continue reading
The following mailing just arrived in District 6 on behalf of the re-election campaign of McHenry County Board member Larry Smith. It went to all people with a mailbox. Smith stresses he voted to cut taxes by 11%. That’s true, … Continue reading
In an extensive article by former Northwest Herald Editor Dan McCabe, now working for the Illinois News Network under former NWH Managing Editor Chris Krug, McCabe sites the impending tax hike vote on the Crystal Lake High School District 155 … Continue reading
In years past the Village of Lakewood was provided fire protection services by the Woodstock Fire Protection District. At that time, if Lakewood residents passed a referendum, its properties could have been annexed to the Woodstock FPD. This past legislative … Continue reading
A press release from Jason E. Kern, RPL, ENP, Executive Director of the Southeast Emergency Communications (SEECOM): IL APCO, INENA Call for Governor Rauner’s Approval on Crucial 9-1-1 Funding for Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (June 4, 2017) – The Illinois Chapter of … Continue reading
Our family went to Galena’s Eagle Ridge before the spring election. Election signs were all over the place. There was a local school bond referendum on the ballot. I spotted two types of “Vote No” signs and one for the … Continue reading
State Rep. David McSweeney is playing the role of Paul Revere. But, it’s not the British that’s coming; it’s the tax eaters. In an interview, McSweeney said, “The Senate’s ‘Grand Bargain’ is not dead.”‘Grand Bargain’ is a code phrase for … Continue reading
The IAmericans for Prosperity’s Andrew Nelms was in Woodstock Tuesday night for the McHenry County Board meeting. He came to promote putting one of three referendums which Chairman Jack Franks said he was going to put on the agenda. When … Continue reading
Former McHenry County Board member Ersel Schuster takes time to thank those County Board members who voted against raising the County’s tax levy: A belated, but nevertheless grateful “thank you” to Yvonne Barnes Andrew Gasser Jeff Thorsen Craig Wilcox for … Continue reading