Grayslake Mayor Says No to SB2288/HB750
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Grayslake Mayor Tim Perry and the Grayslake Board voted 5-0 this week against the passage of SB2288/HB750. [Emphasis mine]
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Grayslake village board members voted 5-0 in favor of a resolution against the Senate proposal. The village’s position will be communicated to lawmakers in Springfield. “If there is no guarantee there is permanent property tax relief involved, it’s just a gross tax money grab,” Perry said. Grayslake officials contend Lake and other collar counties would be shorted by the Senate proposal. They argue that for every additional $10 generated by Lake County taxpayers, just $6 would be returned to benefit local schools. |
Feel free to email the Grayslake Board and thank them for making this decision in favor of the taxpayers. I don’t always agree with their decision, but this a good one and they deserve our thanks. I have already emailed them my thanks.
On the other hand you may want to email your frustration and disgust to Gurnee Mayor Kristina Kovarik and the Village Board. Mayor Kovarik supports this tax grab. Help make sure the Gurnee Board gets the real numbers so they are not deceived into thinking this tax swap is actually for education. Make sure they understand only7.5% of this tax increase will end up back in education.
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Gurnee Mayor Kristina Kovarik has publicly backed a state Senate plan to hike personal and corporate income taxes while reducing education-related property taxes. The state would increase its minimum per-pupil funding as part of the proposal, commonly known as a tax swap. |
This is the email I sent to Mayor Kovarik and the Gurnee Board:
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I am writing to ask you not to support the passage of SB2288 (tax swap). This bill is a tax increase, plain and simple. Did you know there are no protections against removing the property tax relief later? Do you know that the breakdown of how this tax swap actually works? * 56.5% will go to fund state debt, road construction, state employee pensions and unpaid Medicaid bills Read more at http://educationmatters.us/2008/04/10/reject-ploy-to-hike-taxes-for-education/ and please vote to pass a resolution that passed in Grayslake and in Palatine District 15. Thank you for your time. |
[...] In a 6-0 vote, Cary Community Consolidated School District 26 passed the following resolution against the passage of the SB2288/HB750 tax grab. They joined Palatine District 15 and the Village of Grayslake to pass similar resolutions against it passage. [...]