When the McHenry County Conservation District was actively promoting its two tax hike bills, it asked the McHenry County Board for its endorsement of them.
Articles on this attempt to raise McHenry County real estate taxes below include one about lobbying the County Board’s Legislative Committee:
- Revised, Althoff-McConnaughay Bill Could Allow Basic Conservation District Tax Rate to Increase 25%, But Only with Voter Approval
- Althoff Lobbying County Board for MCCD Tax Hike Support
- Althoff Reports Citizen Opposition to Tax Hikes
- Althoff-McConnaughay Bill to Allow MCCD 50% Tax Hike with Referendum Passes 46-0
- Money That Should Have Been MCCD’s Used to Finance 2007 $73 Million, 27% Tax Hike Campaign
- Althoff Passed Bill for Conservation District to Sell Non-Referendum Bonds 48-0
In any event, Chairman John Jung has cancelled the previously scheduled December 11th meeting of the Legislative Committee he chairs.
Since the McHenry County Conservation District Trustees are not elected, rather appointed by the McHenry County Board, the only voter recourse against passage of unfavorable state legislation allowing the Conservation District to issue non-referendum bonds, is to vote your County Board Member out of office.
There are six County Board Districts, each having 4 Board Members.
So did the McHenry County Board’s Legislative Committee support the McHenry County Conservation District’s desire to change state legislation to allow the Conservation district to issue non-referendum bonds?
Did lobbyists paid by the McHenry County Board or the McHenry County Conservation District lobby legislators in support of changing state law to allow the McHenry County Conservation District to issue non-referendum bonds?
It is incredible citizens put up with non-referendum bonds.
What percentage of taxpayers and voters know taxing districts can issue non-referendum bonds?
What percentage of taxpayers think its a problem for taxing districts to issue non-referendum bonds?
Amid all the hand clapping and hoopla of the recent elections, the results are in.
We are once again still…SCREWED!
Why do people keep voting for this jerk Jung??
FYI: Simple, no well funded candidate with untainted name recognition challenged him in the primary.