Pat –
I am requesting that you veto Senate Bill 3341, sponsored by McHenry County legislators Pam Althoff and Mike Tryon.
Currently the McHenry County Conservation District is not allowed to sell bonds without a referendum.
This bill will give them that authority when current bonds are paid off.
McHenry County, according to the Tax Foundation, ranks as the 29th highest property taxed county in the USA.
Pam asked for a letter of endorsement for her bill from the McHenry County Board this spring. The Board did not grant her request.
I am doing my best to get the Board to ask you to veto the bill, but the earliest that its Legislative Committee can meet in January 8th.
Today, four of six Finance Committee members [Yvonne Barnes, John Hammerand, Jim Heisler and Donna Kurtz] voiced their opposition to your signing the bill. [Mike Skala and Mary McCann did not.]
I hope you will wait until after the County Board has the opportunity to weigh in on the subject before making your decision.
cal
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Scala and McCann have NO business calling themselves Republicans.
Very disappointing people in many areas.
Cal? I don’t think your readers are getting the severity of this issue.
Folks!
He just gave you a template!
You need to follow his lead here.
The governor NEEDS to HEAR from YOU!
If he dos not hear from you, you are taking a really big chance that Quinn doesn’t even consider a veto.
This would leave all of McHenry County taxpayers holding a huge stinking bag.
What are you people waiting for?
What did Skala and McCann do?
You should Google “logical fallacies, straw man”
FYI: Not what they did but what they did NOT do.
Skala is another ‘tax and spender’ and McCann has stated she even wants retirement income taxed to the max.
Here’s my email to Quinn:
I beg you to veto Senate Bill 3341. In Seneca Township, McHenry County, our property tax rate was 3.76% of home value in 2014 and will exceed 4% next year. Our home values have been devastated by the taxing policies of our rulers. Please do not allow the removal of our sole remaining meager defense against our rulers: the right of citizen referendum to determine whether higher taxes can be borne.
Well that makes three of us.
Not exactly batting a thousand here.
Truly sad that the folks can’t be bothered.
So State Senator Pam Althoff (R-32nd) and State Representative Michael Tryon (R-66th) are for allowing the McHenry County Conservation District to take taxpayer money without a referendum by allowing the conservation district to issue non-referendum bonds.
But the majority of the McHenry County Board is against allowing the McHenry County Conservation District to take taxpayer money without a referendum by allowing the conservation district to issue non-referendum bonds.
At least that’s the unstated County Board message by the Board not writing a letter of endorsement supporting SB 3341, as requested by Senator Althoff.
Can you imagine if no taxing districts in Illinois were allowed to issue non-referendum bonds?
That should be the law.
We should have a bill to eliminate non-referendum bonds in all Illinois taxing districts.
Instead we have a bill to expand non-referendum bonds to one of the few taxing districts that cannot issue non-referendum bonds.
Do you know what taxing districts on your property tax bill have issued non-referendum bonds?
Do non-referendum bonds fall outside the tax cap?
Done!!