CL City Council & Library Board Will Be Discussing Tax Hike Tuesday Night at 6:30

Take a look at this special notice for a Crystal Lake City Council meeting early Tuesday night:

The agenda for a special Crystal Lake City Council meeting on financing options for expanding the Crystal Lake Public Library.


Here is the guts of the meeting:

“Presentation, Discussion and Feedback of the Draft Crystal Lake Public Library 2011 Needs Assessment including options for building and operations expansion.”

As some will know, the City Library was turned down for a building subsidy by the State Library officials under the control of Secretary of State Jesse White.

The Library Board, however, has some other options.

It can run another referendum giving voters in Crystal Lake the right to decide whether or not they want their property taxes to be raised.

Too late for that to occur during the November election, but it could appear on the Republican Township Primary ballot in late February or on the April local election ballot when school, municipal, park district and township officials are elected.

Or, the Crystal Lake City Council could decide just to approve the issuance of bonds to finance the expansion without voter approval.

That’s allowed for city councils and village boards with populations above 25,000 or in smaller municipalities if the voters approve a Home Rule referendum.

I shall be otherwise occupied Tuesday night, so if you attend the meeting, please send me your observations of what happens. Direct quotes from city council members are especially welcomed.


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CL City Council & Library Board Will Be Discussing Tax Hike Tuesday Night at 6:30 — 3 Comments

  1. Are you serious?

    Does the City Coucil have ANY idea regarding how the taxpayer is struggling?

    We are OVERTAXED. If they vote for expansion of Government and any tax increase, I will work endlessly to defeat those who vote them out.

    It’s hard to understand how mindless politicians are who would do this in this economy.

  2. Skeptic

    you should vote all of theses mindless politicians out .

    they all out for themselves.

    Aaron Shepley should go also.

    How many business’s has closed up in the past 4 years in Crystal lake?

    But lets all go to Aaron Shelpey’s golf outting.

    give him more money.

  3. Please note that agenda item number 20 of tonight’s regular City Council meeting is a proposal to issue more than $9 million dollars worth of bonds for water treatment and sewer improvements (see City Council Agenda Supplement Agenda Item No.: 20, found on the city web site).

    Now, I can’t believe that Council would be so irresponsible as to go into debt another $20 million or so before this item comes up at tonight’s meeting.

    But this is the same council who wants to decriminalize marijuana (de facto, if not in actuality).

    So nothing would surprise me.

    But it would tell me that anyone who supports it does not care about re-election if at the end of the night they supported an additional $30 million in debt.

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