Here’s a table that shows school superintend and teacher salaries for McHenry County school districts, as well as class sizes. A Friend of McHenry County Blog did the heavy lifting in manipulating this data. You will note that Marengo-Union and … Continue reading
Right after this year’s real estate tax bills arrived in mailboxes, McHenry County Blog showed how school districts’ tax levies compared with the previous two years’ levies. A Friend of McHenry County Blog did the heavy lifting in manipulating this … Continue reading
A while ago, a commenter asked for more information about schools than whether and how much they increased or decreased taxes since last year. While data for 2017 is not available, that for 2016 is. A Friend of McHenry County … Continue reading
Schools are the tax districts that take most money in every part of McHenry County. Below is a comparison of what was levied last year for collection this year and what was asked for the year before. Thanks again to … Continue reading
Below you can see what McHenry County school districts will be asking to extract from your checking or escrow accounts this year. You will note that all of them put together are requesting 1.23% more, although the rate of inflation … Continue reading
Taken from bond documents by bond analyst Steve Willson is the following information: … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune’s Education superb Reporter Diane Rado has examined the cost to local taxpayers of school boards that increased teachers’ salaries more than allowed by law just before they retired. Her main article can be found here. Reported in … Continue reading
Since schools comprise the bulk of property tax dollars, I thought some might be interested in seeing how they changed from last year to this year. Although the percentage change column is labeled “% Change + of -” the first … Continue reading
Petitions for school boards are being handed out by the McHenry County Clerk’s Office this year. Those getting them have an opportunity to sign their names and put other information on a legal pad. You see the results from earlier … Continue reading
Last year McHenry County real estate taxpayers were billed $797,419,250.88. This year the McHenry County Clerk’s Office has determined that bills amounting to $809,385,180.76 will be issued. That’s a dollar increase of $11,965,930, a percentage increase of 1.5%. The Property … Continue reading
From Woodstock District 200: All District 200 schools and Kids Club will be closed on Monday, January 6, 2014. All after school activities, practices, evening events, sports and outside user activities will also be cancelled. Phone and email messages confirming … Continue reading
Marengo’s Settlers Days Parade is one of the best in McHenry County. As you would expect, my eyes were searching for political aspects. Mayor Don Lockhart was riding in one of the first cars after that of Parade Marshall Richard … Continue reading
McHenry County Blog has surveyed school districts with major presences in McHenry County and discovered that union employees paid $3.8 million in dues during calendar year 2010. The total amount was $3,825,572. Contracts are typically for more than one year … Continue reading
Only five elementary school districts in McHenry County have contests for school board. Two are in the southwest corner, one in the northeast corner and two in the southeastern part of the county. In Richmond-Spring Grove (Nippersink) Grade School District … Continue reading
Those who wanted to file for school board have done so. The deadline was yesterday. Here’s who running for what, high school districts first: The three incumbents up for election in Marengo High School District 154 have filed for office … Continue reading
Going down the drain by an almost 2-1 margin is the attempt of the Marengo-Union Grade School District 165 School Board to hike its non-referendum borrowing limit by almost four times. Details on the proposal can be found here. Here … Continue reading
How would you like to live in Marengo and have your grade school board members ask whether you would allow them to increase part of your tax bill by 3¾ times? Forever. That’s the way I read the language on … Continue reading
“Ax your tax” seems to have been the sentiment of most tax hike referendum voters in McHenry County this election. Voters in this recession were not kind to tax district officials’ requests for referendums to raise taxes on April 7th. … Continue reading
