Tuesday was the Long Range Financial Planning meeting (see Required reading for background, as well as category budget for DGreports extensive posts on past budgets). Barnett and Beckman were unable to attend. All the curve balls and budget sucker punches thrown by the state we’ve already discussed. There was a general agreement among council members that the existing [...]
Entries Tagged as 'property taxes'
Village budget: 2011 edition
July 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Village Council, Village Hall, budget, government
Village explains its slice of tax pie
May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Taxes, Village Council, Village Hall, budget
Updated: 4 p.m.
The village has added a page to its website explaining its share of residents’ property tax bills and linking to tax bill information presented by Assistant Village Manager Mike Baker at the May 4 council meeting.
The village also uploaded a video of Baker’s presentation to YouTube, which can be accessed by clicking here: [...]
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…through the years
May 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Taxes
Here’s how several years look put together. This is just one example, for a tiny tiny hovel that is drastically over valued. The lines in red are added in to break out County, Township, Village, and Education categories. 2009 was a brutal year for the economy, the CPI rose .01%. This tax bill rose roughly 3.7% [...]
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Budget known, HFest unknown
December 1st, 2009 · 27 Comments · Heritage Fest, Village Council, budget
Budget passes 6-1.
Everyone on council agreed this was a tough budget to do, and in the end all but Commissioner William Waldack voted for it. Several council members echoed Bruce Beckman’s request for a “debriefing” so that the good and bad of this year’s marathon process could be reviewed and improvements wrought.
Most council members had [...]
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The Mayor strikes back
November 20th, 2009 · 42 Comments · Village Council, budget
Painting an unfortunate picture.
This is different. The whole “praise people in public, criticize them in private” meme defined Ron Sandack’s first two years in office. It led to fast meetings, unanimous votes, jocularity and little dissenting opinion.
That normal good humor and jocularity got a kick in the teeth Wednesday night courtesy of Sandack himself, via [...]
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Levy fixed, discord variable
November 18th, 2009 · 24 Comments · Community Events, Heritage Fest, Taxes, Uncategorized, Village Council, budget
Mayor Sandack doesn’t want a village dentist.
This is going to be a collaborative report, and will be modified. I took what EJ wrote last night and spliced in my own notes, and she will do the same later. I encourage everyone to chime in with their own thoughts, as a couple times I was caught [...]
Tags: budget·DeVry Inc.·Downers Grove Community Advocates·local government·municipal budget·property taxes·Taxes·Village Council
Tax time troubles
November 6th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Economic Development, Taxes, community development
On October 20, DuPage County put together its annual Delinquent Tax List. This is a list of property owners who have yet to pay their 2008 property tax bills. As you might guess, this year the list of delinquent properties is significantly larger than in prosperous years. A couple notables have felt the bite.
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The property tax blues
June 1st, 2009 · 12 Comments · Neighbohoods, Taxes
Getting ready to stroke a $2,900 check for my first installment property taxes on the modest, 85-year-old cottage I call home.
As always, our contribution will be more generous this year — by about $250 — despite the hard effort by the village council and the park board to keep their levies flat. The school districts [...]
Foreclosures up, home sales down
November 26th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Taxes
Editor’s note: This post will be updated with local home sales statistics as soon as they become available.
Chicago Avenue. Montgomery Avenue. Prince Street. Barberry Court. Cumnor Road.
These are the locations of just a few of the Downers Grove homes slated for foreclosure by the DuPage County Sheriff’s Department in coming months. The docket [...]
Through the roof
May 3rd, 2010 · 7 Comments · Commentary, District 58, District 99, Education, Taxes, Village Hall, state politics
Our 2009 tax bill is officially through the roof, breaking through the $6,000 barrier for the first time. That’s right, $6,000-plus for an 1,875-square-foot, 85-year-old residence on a 50-foot lot.
And that’s it for me. This year, I finally will file the appeal I’ve threatened so many times in the past. This year, I’ll stay on [...]
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