At the last meeting, the Woodstock City Council voted 5-2 not to adopt the Prevailing Wage ordinance.
Last year the Council first rejected, then, later, approved the ordinance.
Ayes were were RB Thompson and Mayor Brian Sager.
Voting against were newly-sworn in Council member Daniel Hart, plus Joe Starzynski, Maureen Larson, Mark Saladin, and Mike Turner.
Why does Brian Sager pretend to be a Republican?
Message to the Task Force ‘investigating’ why people are leaving McHenry County: JOBS.
High property taxes and other expenses incurred due to burdensome expensive government regulations are driving businesses out of the state.
Along with those businesses go the employees.
Could it be that McHenry County has the distinction of being the State leader in population loss is due to the number of people employed by businesses which have left the state – taking their employees with them?
Small home based businesses are also leaving the County in droves because they can reduce their overhead of high property taxes by simply moving across the state line or to a state with a more moderate climate.
In addition they remove the continued Madigan threat of higher income taxes!!
Madigan keeps repeating the refrain that we need to increase revenues to the State coffers to relieve the budget deficit.
Businesses do not have the luxury of increasing profits by raising prices due to competition while government has no competition!
It is time for all government units in this state to do with less as eight McHenry Townships are doing.
He is too busy visiting Zacatecas Mexico.
Your last line sums it up perfectly.
They need to learn to do more with less – heck I’d be happy with them doing less with less!
Since everything little piece of the budget is a sacred cow and nothing can be removed, the draconian solution would be to use a broad stroke cut across all services and budgets – regardless of their “essential vs. non-essential” positioning.
We (private sector) have been in tough times for years and the government needs to get in step with reality.
Competition is good for everybody!
Shame on Woodstock.
Full speed ahead spending its tif money.
City Property Tax rate of .66% of total home value (1.99% of EAV). (Compared to nearby municipalities’ rates, it is
appalling.)
Total property tax rate to live in Woodstock: 4.6% of total home value (13.93% of EAV).
(Compare to neighboring communities, and average rate in America of 1.5% of total home value. Why this anomaly, when all over America towns and schools manage on reasonable tax rates?)
The copper dome looks like an expensive snow suit on an inept skier tumbling down the hill: wanting to look the part without earning it, superficial gilding on nothing of substance.
They’re going to take this issue up again in two weeks and most likely approve of it, and even if they didn’t approve it they would still have to pay prevailing wages. I think they should vote no again. Even though it’s more of a protest vote, if all these local governments start doing it, maybe the legislators would get the hint.