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 … Continue reading
Ups and downs. That describes what McHenry County taxpayers will see in this year’s real estate tax bills. As reported Saturday, county government provided significant savings by zeroing out last year’s $3 million Valley Hi Nursing Home tax levy. (If … Continue reading
The following was written by Lisa Haderlein of The Land Conservancy of McHenry County. I saw it in the Woodstock Independent on the weekend of July 4th in an edition distributed to Wonder Lake and requested permission from Haderlein to share … 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
A couple of weeks ago news media unloaded the latest attack on township government. They were working from a Better Government Association report. Most of the attention was aimed at Cook County townships. That’s where most of the land is … Continue reading
Today let’s look at the cost of maintaining township roads. As you can see, the cost varies a lot,. So do the number of miles of roads for which the various township road commissioners are responsible for maintaining. The townships … Continue reading
At least since I’ve been attending. At least for ones when the trustees showed up. I got there late, walking through all the halls of the Huntley Park District Recreation Center before I thought to read the public notice near … Continue reading
