Tax districts are required to place “black border” ads in the paper to notify residents if they plan to increase their tax levies more than 5%. Cary Grade School District 26 is not increasing its levy 5% or more, but … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tax Cap
Since the team of Karen Tirio, Chris Jenner, Ron Parrish and Tom Wilbeck were elected to the McHenry County College Board six years ago, along with Molly Walsh, the MCC tax levy has remained constant. With new growth occurring, the … Continue reading
From a comment left by “KnownExtremist:” Here is the story with Valley Hi. In 2002 the voters approved a referendum to allow a special real estate tax to be imposed on them to fund Valley Hi. At that time, Valley … Continue reading
Continuing coverage of the League of Women Voters Candidates’ Night for those seeking State Senate seat looking at answers to the question of whether property taxes should be capped or reduced and “how do you propose to help schools and libraries–two … Continue reading
This is the second part of attorney Tim Dwyer’s tax protest suit against Algonquin Township: ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP AND ALGONQUIN ROAD DISTRICT – FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH PTELL [the Property Tax Cap] Pleading in the alternative, Objectors assert that both the … Continue reading
One more month to go in 2015 and it doesn’t look as if the cost of living will have gone up even one percent. Tax districts, such as schools, are limited to taking no more total dollars than the percentage … Continue reading
Lakewood bond analyst and public policy commentator Steve Willson reflected on the McHenry County College Board’s upcoming decision of whether to increase or decrease taxes. (Board members can do either. (By taking all the money allowed under the Real Estate … Continue reading
Capitol Fax is reporting a school superintendent complains that a two-year real estate tax freeze for be a “killer” for schools: “[Bruce] Rauner wants legislatures to freeze property taxes for 2 straight years,” said Tad Everett, superintendent of the Sterling Public … Continue reading
Friday, State Rep. Jack Franks didn’t use one of his 48 shell bills to tack on the following legislation. He used one of House Speaker Mike Madigan’s. Here’s how it ended up: Provides that, beginning with the 2015 levy year, … Continue reading
McHenry County Board Legislative Committee members will discuss the County’s legislative wish list for the incoming General Assembly on Friday morning at 8:15.. (The draft is here.) Some, but not all of the proposals are reproduced below: Top request is … Continue reading
Grafton Township Clerk Kathryn Francis is doing something that I wish all governmental bodies would do. She is posting draft minutes to be considered at the next meeting. For Grafton Township, that is tonight, Monday, December 15th, at 7:30 PM … Continue reading
Add McHenry Elementary School District 15 to that list of tax districts planning to take as much money out of local taxpayers’ pockets as state law allows. The legal publication for the public hearing about the proposed levy said the … Continue reading
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since McHenry County College President Vicky Smith has made it abundantly clear that she thinks the junior college should extract every dime possible from taxpayers. Last year, with three new members–Molly Walsh, Tom Wilbeck … Continue reading
The McHenry County Board Tuesday night voted to levy approximately the same amount as it has for the last three years. Foregoing the opportunity provided by state law to increase its tax take by 1.5%, the rate of inflation, the … Continue reading
McHenry County College Board members will be subjected to another at least twenty minute pitch from finance guy Bob Tenuta on Tuesday as to why the Board should ask for as much money as they are allowed to get. Under the … Continue reading
Should have caught this sooner. The Village of Bull Valley and the River East Public Library District are asking voter permission to bump their tax rates way up. Look at the ballot question in Bull Valley first: Bull Valley is … Continue reading
The Illinois real estate assessment system bases one’s share of the total bill on the value of one’s property (unless one has farm land). A short history of how we got where we are. The 1870 Constitution required that real … Continue reading
You may remember that McHenry County Blog revealed that the County’s nursing home, Valley Hi, has $35 million in the bank. That’s as of the end of November, 2013. Now, it’s $36 million. A lot of that is clearly surplus … Continue reading
Today I went to the 8:30 AM meeting of the McHenry County Board’s Public Health Committee. Lots of interesting information surfaced as budgets from various departments were outlined. During the public comment time, I asked for an explanation of the … Continue reading
Below the total tax requests from Fire Protection Districts in McHenry County for last year are compared to the ones which will be reflected in the real estate tax bills about to arrive in people’s mailboxes: The Barrington Countryside Fire … Continue reading